MOUMITA BASAK was born in a village called Srirampur in 1996, in the Burdwan district in West Bengal, India. After high school, she was admitted to the Govt College of Art & Craft in Calcutta. She participated in the College’s annual exhibitions and was awarded the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin scholarship for many academic years, until she obtained her MFA in 2022.

Her works were exhibited at KCC Art Fair in Emami and St-Kurge The Creation at ICCR in 2019 and in the same year Basak participated in KCC Art Fair workshop, Workshop River Festival, Prinsep Ghat, Kolkata and Rajya Charukala Prasad painting workshop in West Bengal. After starting an MFA in painting in 2020, she exhibited as part of the annual academic exhibition and was awarded the Ajay Bankim Memorial Scholarship. In 2021, she participated in the Kochi Student Biennale, the Annual Birla Academy of Art and Culture, the Annual Exhibition of Bombay Art Society and, in India, in the exhibition ‘1971: Retrospective’.

She participated in the Emami Art Residency Program in Kolkata and the Khoj Peers Residency Program in Delhi. Recently her works were exhibited at ‘World Within World Without’, a group exhibition at the Bikaner House in New Delhi and at the Ravi Jain Memorial Foundation Annual Awards Show at the Dhoomimal Gallery in Delhi.

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