Uttam Chitrakar

Uttam Chitrakar, an artist from West Bengal’s Midnapore has been revolutionising the street-side pat paintings of Kalighat. The 30-year-old has introduced queer and transpersons in a series of his new paintings which he made in partnership with art exposition The India Story’s co-founder Swarup Datta. Besides, the paintings will be a part of a folk and contemporary art show at Method Art Space in Mumbai’s Kala Ghoda.