Khokan Giri

Born
23 March 1995
Education
Master of Fine Arts,Rabindra Bharati University
Exhibition
Abir’sFIRSTTAKE2019,2021
Rabindra Bharat! University Annual Art Exhibition,2020
Birla Academy of Artand Culture,2020
Birla Academy of Artand Culture present’Svikrity’ AnExhibition of The Awardees,2019
Galerie 88 Presents Perspecta18 Art Exhibition,2019
West Bengal State Academy Annual Art Exhibition
A Group Exhibition,Imagination Art Group
Camlin Annual Art Exhibillon
Rabindra Bharat! University Annual Workshop,2018
Rabindra Bharat! University Annual Workshop(PuruliaMassMaking)
Rabindra Bharati University Annual Workshop
Participated in National Workshop, Department of FineArts VeerNarmad South Gujarat University,2014
International
Queen Sonja Print Award(Norwa)2020.
Kibria Art Fair (Bangladesh)
Scholarship
Lalit Kala Akademi Scholarship,2019
Award
Manorama Young Printmaker Award(runnerup)Indian Printmaker House
Ravi Engineering Works,2020
(Jyoti BhattSpecial series Etching press Award)
Academy of Fine Art sAnnual Exhibition,2018
Birla Academy of Art and Culture Annual Art Exhibition,2018
West Bengal State Academy Annual Art Exhibition,2018
Rabindra Bharati University Annual Art Exhibition,2017
Camlin Annual Art Exhibition.
ARTIST STATEMENT 
I belong to interior village near to the coastal area of Digha. Since my childhood I spend time among the Nuliah Villages. As a result the objects like fishing traps, fishing nets, boats and their lifestyles, their struggles keep inspiring me and sub consciously these affected and enriched my visual interpretation. More later stage these forms appeared to my art practice as reference.
While I am putting those objects in my work its act like the biography of the people from the area I concerned. These objects are reflecting the idea of struggle of those communities who have been surviving there over the decades. The combination of rhythm, Architectonic linear quality of the objects like fishing traps, fishing nets to me is very much symbolic of their lifestyle at the same time there is also some sort of optical illusion within these structural form that inspired me. I have tried to show that intense struggle of these people and their particular identity of these particular area through my work of art.