The Garden & The Grave by Tithi Das

Tithi Das (b. 2001, West Bengal) is a visual art practitioner based between Baroda and Kolkata. Her practice explores body as a site of psychological residue, memory and rejecting inherited conditioning, her paintings negotiate the tension between intimacy and exposure. Drawing from memory, intuition and personal archives, she constructs ambiguous and sensorial forms that evoke suppressed and unresolved narratives.

She completed her Bachelor’s in Painting from Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University (2019–2023), and Master’s from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda (2023–2025). Her work has been exhibited across Bengal and Delhi and Baroda alongside participation in workshops and projects.

Engaging with the invisible emotional labour embedded within domestic and social structures, her work foregrounds bodies that resist passive representation; appearing assertive, unsettling, and at times eerily sacred.She works with layered, acrylic on semi-primed canvas, allowing intuitive processes to shape surfaces where the conscious and unconscious intersect.

Alongside her studio practice, she has worked in set design and scenography, engaging with spatial construction and performative environments; an experience that informs her understanding of the body in relation to space, presence, and viewing.

Das is a recipient of the Kalasakshi Award and Scholarship (2023), Camel Art Foundation Award (2022), and the National Youth Festival Award in Painting (2020), among others.