Deepanwita Das (b. 1998, Kolkata, India) completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Printmaking from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

Since childhood, she has nurtured plants and collected dried flowers, seeds, fruits, branches and leaves, an everyday practice that informs her attentiveness to natural materials and their metaphysical resonances. She is particularly drawn to plants that grow wild by the roadside, those which require little care yet persist, becoming metaphors for human repression, endurance and transformation. To depict uncertainty and nostalgia in this process of evolution, her compositions use withered flora against empty background with distortion and negative space, where dried flowers recall memories and emotional residue in a melancholic, surreal atmosphere.

She has exhibited in Abohoman – One That Flows by Anant Art (New Delhi, 2025), CIMA Awards (Kolkata, 2025), Speaking of Residues at Dhi Contemporary (New Delhi, 2025), Emerging Palettes at Srishti Art Gallery (Hyderabad, 2025), SVIKRITI at Birla Academy of Art and Culture (Kolkata, 2024), Charu Kala Award and Exhibition (Kolkata, 2023), and CAF Art & Design by Camel Art Foundation (Kolkata, 2021). She has participated in the Artist Annual Exhibitions of the West Bengal State Academy of Dance, Music & Visual Arts (2018, 2023) and Birla Academy (2023, 2024), receiving the Printmaking Award and Jury’s Special Mention. She is a recipient of the Narendrapur Art Connect Foundation Scholarship (2022), the RBU Certificate of Merit and Award (2022, 2023), and has attended the Imaginarium 3.0 Residency at Emami Art (Kolkata, 2023–24) and the Arthshila All India Art Students Camp (Patna, 2023).