Nayanjyoti Barman Draws the Cost of Progress

Dense pen-and-ink worlds and installations about industry, ecological loss and displaced birds. An Assam-born artist mapping what development leaves behind.

Nazaria Editorial

Jul 22 · 3 min read

Nayanjyoti Barman draws the things a growing economy would rather you did not look at: felled trees, tangled cables, birds with nowhere left to land.

Born in 1994 in Assam, he studied at Kala Bhavana in Santiniketan before an MVA at MSU Baroda. Working mostly in dense pen-and-ink drawing and installation, he traces the collision between industry and ecology, the quiet displacement that development leaves in its wake.

His work has travelled: to the Luca Biennale in Italy and the Students' Biennale at Kochi, among others.

We are featuring him as one of Nazaria's Ones to Watch.

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