Rajib Bhattacharjee passed preparatory painting in 1991 from Govt. College of Art and Craft Kolkata and subsequently studied Western Painting at Govt. College of Art and Craft Kolkata. Studied Bachelor of Electronics at APC College, University of Kolkata. Did intense residency on nature art, South Korea. He has been invited as the formal speaker of the 4th Beijing international art biennale conference, Beijing, China. 2010. Conducted workshop and delivered lecture presentation on upcycling and multimedia art at Kolkata Centre for Creativity.
Conceptualized and Moderated talk and presentation titled Practice and Possibilities of Multimedia Art at KCC ( Kolkata Centre for Creativity )
Has a number of international project and paper publication.
Being an independent creative practitioner he has been engaged in practicing art for the last twenty five years with many media such as painting, graphics, ceramic, paper-making, installation, video and nature art practice.
Invited to participate Florence biennale (Italy) 2011.He has participated in 4th Beijing biennale (China ) 2010 and 2012. Participated in Santorini biennale (Greece) 2013. Selected among top 20 Busan biennale sea art festival 2013, South Korea. Participating artist of KHOJ Baithakkhana project 2014, Kolkata, India. He was the invited artist of the Multimedia show – Birla Academy of Art / collateral show CIMA, Kolkata, India, 2015.Invited participant of Video biennale GNAB 2018 South Korea.Invited for Solo show at Youngeun museum of contemporary art /Residency at Youngeun museum of contemporary art ( South Korea ) 2017. Group show – Nature Art Cube – GNAPB biennale, South Korea 2017.Group show of Painters 80 at Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata 2019 – the show titled IN AUSTERE TIMES. Solo show in gallery Time and Space 2009 ( India ) curated by AkumalRamchander. Solo show gallery RANGE, Kolkata 2017 (India ) curated by Anirudh Chari. Solo show YATOO 2014 (South Korea), self-curated. Solo show at gallery finix 2013 (Belgrade) curated by Ivan Pavic.
Curated Multimedia show Hollow Times along with Mrs Reena Dewan at KCC.
One of the landmark project – two 8 feet x 70 feet mural installed at NSCB international airport, Kolkata, India.
Member of Painters 80, one of the oldest and prominent artist collective of Kolkata.
Works as an Executive at Airports Authority of India, Kolkata.
Founder Director of Studio Next, an artist run art space in Kolkata.
Many collections in India and abroad. Lives and works in Kolkata.
