Sreejata Roy

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Sreejata Roy

Visiting Professor of Visual Arts, Ashoka University

Ph.D. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
sreejata.roy@ashoka.edu.in

Sreejata Roy is a Delhi based artist and academic has completed her practice-led PhD from University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2024 and practice based Mphil in Media Art from Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK 2005. As an artist interested in community-related projects, Sreejata has been using classical/conventional and mixed and digital media to produce various art forms, engaging the community. Roy’s current art practice in Delhi (2007-present) involves working with young /women for over a decade through Socially Engaged Art practice connecting the ideas of public spaces in many sprawling and congested marginalized colonies inhabited by generations of migrants from the neighbouring rural territory.

Roy was awarded a ‘Public Art’ grant from the Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) in 2008 and completed reshaping a community park in one of those marginalized neighbourhoods. The project is part of the Public Art Archive published by International Public Art (IAPA). Apart from FICA, she has been awarded other prestigious scholarships in India, including a National Scholarship, from the Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, 1993, Community Art Grant, Khoj for international artist Association, 2008-2009 & 2014-2016, Art- Reach India Community Art Grant 2015-2020, SEA Grant, Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi, 2016- 2024. At the international level, she was awarded Pro Helvetia Swiss Cultural Scholarship to work in Basel, in 2011, IASPIS, The Swedish Arts Grants, Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists, Malmo, Sweden in 2017, Prince Klaus, Netherland Fund to develop a community kitchen with the migrant, refugee communities in low- income locality in Delhi. She also got academic award including Overseas Research Scholarship UK,2000-2004, Presidency Scholarship, International Research Scholarship, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2018-2021.

At present, she is an adjunct faculty in the postgraduate course in the area of Public Art, Socially Engaged Art in the Visual Art Department of Creative Expression at Ambedkar University, Delhi and in Visual Arts Department, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana. Roy is a part of Revue; an artist collective based in Delhi (2008-present), and has collaborated on various community and public art projects in India and abroad for several years. Her scholarly papers are published in many significant academic journals.

  1. 2021 The Art of Uneventful Every Day in the Public Space of Delhi by Revue (Sreejata Roy & Mrityunjay Chatterjee) CAP Special Issue, Public Art Journal Contemporary Public Arts and the Contested
Urban Public Space
Vol. 3 / No 2
  2. 2020 Re-imagining the Everyday: Street Art in an ‘Urban Village’, Delhi by Revue (Sreejata Roy & Mrityunjay Chatterjee), Journal of Urban Studies, a peer-reviewed journal, 2020
  3. 2016 ‘Debating gaze via art in public space’ by Sreejata Roy & Mrityunjay Chatterjee Artist, New Delhi, India, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, published by Routledge Group, Francis&Taylor
  4. 2016 ‘The Playground Project’ by Xavier Salle (Author), Vincent Romagny (Author), Sreejata Roy (Author), & 1 More, published by JRP Ringier; Bilingual edition.
  5. 2014 ‘Chronicle of Invisible’ an essay published in quarterly journal Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
  6. 2013 ‘Engagement in Art’ part of ‘What is Socially Engaged Art’ published in PUBLIC ART Magazine Vol4, Art & Society Research Center, Chiyoda 331, Tokyo, Japan
  7. 2008 ‘LOG Book’ published in ‘FRONTIER’ SARAI Reader07
  1. 2018-2022 Presidency Scholarship, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  2. 2018-2022 International Research Scholarship, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  3. 2008-2009 Public Art Grant, Foundation of Indian Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India
  4. 2000-04 Overseas Research Scholarship, United Kingdom
  5. 1991 -1993 National Scholarship, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India
  6. 2018 onwards Museum of Food: A Living Heritage funded by Prince Claus and British Council
  7. 2017 IASPIS, The Swedish Arts Grants, Committee’s International Programme for Visual Artists, Inter Art Centre, Department of Kulture, Kommunication and Kunst, Malmo University, Sweden
  8. 2016 onwards Mobile Mohalla project grant by Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi, India
  9. 2015 onwards Axial Margins: Urdu Park project grant by ArtReach India, New Delhi
  10. 2014-2016 Networks & Neighbourhood I&II project grant Khoj International Artist’s Association New Delhi, India
  11. 2011 Pro Helvetia Swiss Cultural Grant to work in the artist residency, Basel, Switzerland
  12. 2008-09 City[in]Visible I & II project grant by Khoj International Artist’s Association New Delhi, India
  1. 2023- Adjunct Faculty for Under Graduation in Socially Engaged Art, Department of Performing Arts, Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana
  2. 2020- onward Adjunct Faculty for MA Art and Social Practice, Department of Creative Expression, Ambedkar University, Delhi
  3. 2018-2021 Guest Faculty for MA Art and Social Practice, Centre for Rural Creativity, Shetland College UHI, Gremista
  4. 2018 External Visual Arts Jury for the First Year, Second Semester, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
  5. Guest Faculty for MA Social Design, The Department of Design, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.
  6. Guest Faculty for Creative Intervention with the Mphil researchers, Centre for Development Practice, at Ambedkar University, New Delhi, India
  7. Guest Faculty for Visual Aesthetics with MA Animation, at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India
  8. Alternative art pedagogy with young boys & girls of NGO School Deepalaya, supported by Foundation for Indian Contemporary, New Delhi, India
  9. Alternative art pedagogy with young boys & girls supported by Ankur Society for an alternative in Education, New Delhi, India
  10. Research Fellow, project ‘Curatorial Practice in India’ supported by Indian Foundation for Arts at Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India.
  11. Assistant Tutor Foundation Course, Coventry School of Art and Design Coventry University, UK
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