Dharmanarayan Das gupta was born in Tripura. In 1970 He joined the Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata. In 1960 he did Diploma in Fine Arts from Kala Bhavan, Shantiniketan. He had great sense of structure which he never discarded when he explored dreams. Das gupta by the late 70`s had evoked a style by which he came to be known, where the prime medium was a special genre of egg tempera on canvas using a mouth spray for finishing effect. A recognizable range of characters and scenes animated his compositions with jocularity, mischief and satire. Das gupta introduced a whimsical note into fantasy images.
His Solo Exhibitions:
# 1963 Exhb. at Artistry House, Kolkata.
# 1984 Participated Kala Yatra, Chennai.
# 1985 Exhb. at Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi.
# 1985 Exhb. at the Calcutta Art Gallery, Kolkata.
# 1988 Exhb. at Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata.
# 1991 Exhb. at Dhoomimal Art Gallery, New Delhi.
His Group Exhibitions:
# 1961-63 National Exhibition, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta; Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata; West Bengal State Academy.
# 1964 Exhb. of Three Artists, All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi.
# 1966 Six Painters, Artistry House, Kolkata.
# 1967 Exhb. at Arts and Prints Gallery, Kolkata.
# 1971 Society of Contemporary Artists, Kolkata.
# 1979 Kala Yatra Exhb. Madras, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur and Kolkata.
# 1980 Drawings `80, Chandigarh.
# 1981 Kala Yatra Exhibition, Ernakulam; Hyderabad; Indian Paintings Today, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
# 1982 Kala Yatra Exhb., Bombay, Bangalore, London, Paris and Manchester
Awards received by Dharmanarayan Das gupta:
# 1981 Received award from Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata.
# 1989 Received Shiromani Puraskar, Asian Paints.
In the years 1966-79 he served as an Art Teacher in St. Thomas Church School, Howrah. Between the years 1979-85 he served as a teacher in St. Thomas School, Dasnagar. From 1985-97 he was part of the faculty of Visual Arts, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. He breathed his last in the year 1997. Das gupta was an artist who used humour to expose middle-class hypocrisies. Dharmanarayan Das gupta died before the art boom began.
