Threads of Visual Exploration: Textiles and Allied Practices - Part I & II

Prof. Rajarshi Sengupta

IIT KanpurProf. Rajarshi Sengupta is a practitioner and art historian, presently teaching fine arts at the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India (2021-). Sengupta completed his PhD in art history from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2019), and received the IARTS Textiles of India Grant, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2017-18). He has published in Journal18, Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, and South Asian Studies, among others, and contributed to Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (2020). Sengupta exhibited his most recent textile works in the group exhibition Crafting the Crossroad, Dhi Artspace, Hyderabad (2022). Along with Dr. Baishali Ghosh, he is working on an edited book on Deccani material culture.