Anindita Dutta, wet-clay wall relief with the body
Sculpture · Performance · Installation

AninditaDutta

Large-scale, durational works in raw wet clay, the human form and salvaged matter. A practice shaped by impermanence, memory and resilience.

b. 1973, India
New York / New Haven
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Selected work

Sculpture & Installation Performance Wet-Clay Wall Relief Video
Sculpture & InstallationTrapped
Trapped
Assemblage · found materials · 2005
PerformanceEverything Ends & Everything Matters
Everything Ends & Everything Matters
Wet clay, iron structure · 2014
Wet-Clay Wall ReliefWet Clay Wall Relief
Wet Clay Wall Relief
Hardened earth pigments · 2011–13
VideoPradakshina
Pradakshina
Durational performance · 2023
The artist

Impermanence, made physical.

Anindita Dutta (b. 1973, India) is a sculptor, installation and performance artist who transforms personal trauma and resilience into a radical visual language, working with raw wet clay, the human body, and found objects: discarded clothing, weathered shoes, vintage purses, fur and animal horns.

Her durational performances press the living body into clay, leaving traces that become a record of endurance, resistance and renewal.

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Selected exhibitions
  • Sean Kelly Gallery · New York, 2023
  • Hudson River Museum · New York, 2024
  • Arthur M. Sackler Museum · Beijing, 2014
  • Fukuoka Asian Art Museum · Japan, 2010
Fellowships & grants
  • Gottlieb Foundation Grant · 2026
  • TOY Fellowship · NXTHVN · 2022
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation · 2008
  • Skowhegan · UNESCO-Aschberg · 2005
Collections
  • Yale University Art Gallery
  • Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Beijing
  • Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
  • Clarinda Carnegie Art Museum, Iowa