Sayantan Samanta from West Bengal, completed his Master’s degree from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan in 2017 and Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in 2015.  Samanta has exhibited at the Kochi-Muziris Students’ Biennale in 2016.

Sayantan was engaged in a year-long research programme from 2017-18 with Lalit Kala Academy, Delhi. He received the young artist’s scholarship (U-25) under the scheme of the CCRT Program, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India from 2019-2021. In 2019, Sayantan received a grant from the Embassy of the Republic of South Korea for a solo exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre India, New Delhi. He was also engaged in an artist Incubator program with the Piramal Museum of Art and Piramal Art Residency from 2019 to 2020.

He received a special mention at the CIMA Art Award 2022 and awarded the MASH INDIA Art Award in 2022 and ART FOR HOPE Art Award in 2023. He has been exhibiting his artwork regularly with various art galleries and foundations. He recently participated in the Venice Biennale Collage Art 2024 Project. He is current resident of the SPACE STUDIO Baroda winter residency program 2024.