AN ARTIST’S TRAJECTORY

Kallol Datta’s career, stitch by stitch

2007

Shortlisted for the GenNext programme at Fashion Week, Mumbai

2008

Launched Kallol Datta 1955, Kolkata

2011

KHOJ International Artist Residency, New Delhi

Grazia Young Fashion Awards, Hot Label, India

2012

AW 2012 exhibited at MBFW Berlin Grand Finale show at Fashion Week, Mumbai

Elle Power List, India

Elle Fashion Awards; Fashion Forward Enfant Terrible, India

Grazia Young Fashion Awards; Cult Innovation, India

2013

Collaboration with Bombay Dyeing - Bed & Bath Linen - pan India

AW 2013 showcase at Project 88, Mumbai Residency at T.A.J & Gallery SKE Projects, Bengaluru

KHOJ International Artist Residency,

New Delhi

2014

Public Collections - Victoria & Albert Museum, London (three works) Featured in India Contemporary Design, Divya Patel; V&A Publishing London (Pages 52, 55-57, 83-85)

2015

Group Showcase - Fabric of India, Victoria & Albert Museum, London Featured in Indian Fashion: Tradition, Innovation, Style, Arti Sandhu; Bloomsbury (Pages 157-159)

Featured in Fashion India, Phyllida Jay; Thames & Hudson (Pages 174-179)

2016

Grazia 100 Most Influential List, India

2017 Grazia

100 Most Influential List, India Lightforms collaboration with Paul Matter Nomad Monaco, Monaco

Random Access at Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata

Featured in Experimenter 2017

2018

Volume 1 presented as a zine, self-published, Edition of 250 Beirut Design Fair, Beirut

2019

Aria Residency Awardee, Tehran

Arts Network Asia Grant, Singapore Datta’s clothes making practice is in the syllabus for ‘Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Art’ – at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2021

Jameel Prize Finalist

(Upcoming) Jameel Prize; Poetry to Politics, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Since 2017, Datta conducts a module called Swaddling to Shrouding which has taken place at multiple educational and art institutions.