Sharbendu De is a contemporary lens-based artist, academic and writer. He was the 2022 Visiting Artist Fellow at the Harvard University, and is the 2023 National Geographic Explorer grantee for his series "Return to the Primordial Eden' intended to explore climate solutions through indigenous knowledge systems. De’s conceptual series 'An Elegy for Ecology' (2016-21) deals with air pollution and human survival in the future. His seven-year-long series 'Imagined Homeland' (2013-19) on the indigenous Lisus, has garnered critical acclaim and has been widely exhibited.
De has received grants from the National Geographic Society, MurthyNAYAK Foundation, KHOJ, Prince Claus Fund & ASEF, Lucie Foundation and India Foundation for the Arts. He was shortlisted for the BBA Gallery Artist Prize (2022), LensCulture Visual Storytelling Awards (2019), Lucie Foundation’s Emerging Artist of the Year (2018) as well as nominated for Magnum Foundation Fellowship (2023), Leica Oskar Barnack Awards (2022) and Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant (2022) among others.
De has exhibited across Kunstforum der TU Darmstadt, Germany (2023), Harvard University (2022), Guangdong Times Museum (2022), Photoville (2022), Rencontres d'Arles, Arles (2022), India Art Fair, New Delhi (2022), KHOJ, New Delhi (2022), Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2021), Vadehra Art Gallery (2020-21), Shrine Empire Gallery, New Delhi (2021-22), PhEST, Italy (2020), FORMAT, U.K. (2019) and Serendipity Arts Festival (2019) amongst others. His ar
Despite mountains of photographs, can we really understand the trauma felt in the aftermath of the horrific earthquakes? This project draws on local mythology to offer another way of envisioning the country’s still fragile psyche.
