Sharmistha Kar

Sharmistha Kar is an art practitioner and educator from India who is currently living and studying in Montreal, Canada. She holds an MFA from Western University and currently pursuing postgraduate study in Art Education at Concordia University.

Kar’s early education began in West Bengal, India and later continued in Hyderabad where she pursued higher education in Fine arts at the University of Hyderabad in 2009. She then pursued her studio practice as an invited artist at Space studio, returning to Hyderabad in 2012 to join the International Institute of Information Technology as a lecturer. She was awarded the prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust Award to do three months ‘artist in residence program’ at Newcastle University, United Kingdom, in 2013. After her return, she worked as a visiting faculty member at Jawaharlal Nehru Architecture and Fine Arts University in Hyderabad. She was awarded with Gold medal for First rank as an MFA, University of Hyderabad, in 2009, as well as the Graduate Thesis Research Award for travel in 2018. She was awarded with Concordia Merit Scholarship, Power Corporation of Canada Graduate Fellowship and Concordia University Out-of-Province Fee Remission Award in 2022.

She had shown in India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Finland, and Canada.

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