Anshuman Das Gupta , born on the 14th of July,1967, Kolkata, India; Did PhD from Goldsmiths, London University, Visual Cultures Department. Graduation in Art History from Kala Bhavan, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, and MA in Art History, M.S from University of Baroda in 1990 and 1992. Completed film appreciation course from FTII, Pune, 1993; Research fellow at the MSU, Baroda from 1992 to 1997; Joined Santiniketan In 1997. His recent curatorial ventures include the Ramkinkar Baij Centenary exhibition (2006), Santiniketan. Co–curator of ‘Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture’ Antwerp, (2008); Bauhaus Imaginista exhibition (2019-20) Berlin; Chief official curatorial researcher from India, (Book) 2019. As a writer, he contributed to The Marg volumes on modernist Institutions and on contemporary Indian Sculptures and the book titled ‘Curating Subjects’, edited by Paul o’neill; The Curatorial. published by Bloomesbury, London (n 2013), and in Bauhaus Imaginista web journal and the book/ catalogue published on the occasion in 2019 ( Thames and Hudson), London. Currently, he is part of the inter-continental long term research project titled “Taj of the Raj”, Hosted by Syracuse and Cornell University, US.
