Anupam Roy’s practice reflects his experiences and observations in the hinterlands of rural Bengal where he was born in 1985, the urban landscapes of metropolitan Delhi where he currently lives and works, as well as in Central and North Eastern India where he has engaged in regional political inquiry and propaganda praxis. He studied contemporary visual art at Ambedkar University, Delhi (2014-2016) and later did his second MA in fine art from D Montfort University, Leicester, UK, for which he received Charles Wallace India Trust Long Term Scholarship (2019-2020). He is the recipient of the 2018 FICA Emerging Artist Award, which culminated in his solo exhibition in Delhi, India (2022).
His works have been exhibited widely in India and internationally, including at Way of the Forest, Colomboscope, Sri Lanka, 2023, and at the 2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum, New York. Roy is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Art, Media, and Performance, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi. He has a parallel practice as a propagandist of political magazine/Zines, posters, signage, and graffiti. He has conducted numerous workshops on the design and conception of political posters with radical political collectives and groups all over India. He is also an active member and part of the editorial board of Locust Review, a cultural quarterly magazine published from America.