Born in 1966 artist Malay Saha did his BFA from department of painting Rabindra Bharati University,
1992 and MFA from Kala-Bhavan in 1995.
He has been the recipient of several Awards and Fellowships of Senior Fellowship, Ministry of H.R.D,
Government of india,2010, Merit in painting, Botswana National Museum, Southern Africa,2003,best
Drawing Award, Botswana National Museum, Southern Africa,2002 Academy’s award, Academy of
Fine Arts,Kolkata.1999, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, United states of America ,1996 amongst
many others.
He has had over 5 solo exhibitions in Kolkata, Delhi, and Bangalore since 1992 till 2020 and two men
show in Kolkata, Ahmedabad Mumbai and Botswana South Africa.
He was an 'Artist in Residence' at Kanoria art center, Ahmedabad 1996-97, and part of innumerable
shows over the course of time. Malays' paintings are in collection with the National Gallery of Modern
Art, New Delhi, Botswana National Museum, and Southern Africa & in many private and corporate
collections in India & abroad.
Malay Saha, works on issues that reflect an awareness and spatial relationship between objects and
the beholder. Squares, checks, rectangles, intricate dots, and a forest of lines explore the psycho-social
space of urban life. His canvases are the celebration of life, a kaleidoscopic view of living spaces. Along
with prominent black and whites, Malay uses bright red, saturated yellow, hues of green, and streaks of
dazzling paint to emphasize his topologically complex composition of furniture which is almost bereft of
human presence. There, a mysterious shade of authority prevails Malay has demonstrated virtuosity in
the use of colour, a mastery over texture, and technique where in splattering, cross-hatching, dazzling
edges, and a hat-tip to the pointillists. All these have together elevated the frames to hypnotic,
significant, and thought-provoking artworks.
Malay Saha
Born in 1966 artist Malay Saha did his BFA from department of painting Rabindra Bharati University, 1992 and MFA from Kala-Bhavan in 1995. He has been the recipient of several Awards and Fellowships of Senior Fellowship, Ministry of H.R.D, Government of india,2010, Merit in painting, Botswana National Museum, Southern Africa,2003,best Drawing Award, Botswana National Museum, Southern Africa,2002 Academy’s award, Academy of Fine Arts,Kolkata.1999, Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, United states of America ,1996 amongst many others. He has had over 5 solo exhibitions in Kolkata, Delhi, and Bangalore since 1992 till 2020 and two men show in Kolkata, Ahmedabad Mumbai and Botswana South Africa. He was an 'Artist in Residence' at Kanoria art center, Ahmedabad 1996-97, and part of innumerable shows over the course of time. Malays' paintings are in collection with the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Botswana National Museum, and Southern Africa & in many private and corporate collections in India & abroad. Malay Saha, works on issues that reflect an awareness and spatial relationship between objects and the beholder. Squares, checks, rectangles, intricate dots, and a forest of lines explore the psycho-social space of urban life. His canvases are the celebration of life, a kaleidoscopic view of living spaces. Along with prominent black and whites, Malay uses bright red, saturated yellow, hues of green, and streaks of dazzling paint to emphasize his topologically complex composition of furniture which is almost bereft of human presence. There, a mysterious shade of authority prevails Malay has demonstrated virtuosity in the use of colour, a mastery over texture, and technique where in splattering, cross-hatching, dazzling edges, and a hat-tip to the pointillists. All these have together elevated the frames to hypnotic, significant, and thought-provoking artworks.