Ghana Shyam Latua

Born in 1992 in West Midnapore, Ghana Shyam Latua studied painting in Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, graduating in 2017.   

Ghana Shyam has been the subject of the solo show The Lament of the Red Earth at Tapetenwerk Gallery by the Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, Leipzig, Germany (2022); Khoai Landscape at Emami Art (Kolkata, 2021) and has exhibited his work at 2020 Takshila Fine Arts Scholars Show held at Arthsila Santiniketan (2022); Patterns of Intensity at Art Alive (New Delhi, 2021); Occupying Space at Gallery Exposure( Kolkata, 2018); Dih-Pahr-Cher at Ganges Art Gallery (Kolkata, 2020); Inside the Fibre at Arts Acre Museum (Kolkata, 2020); Annual Exhibition at SSVAAD (Santiniketan, 2019); CIMA Award Show (Kolkata, 2019); Inward Vision at Arts Acre Museum (Kolkata, 2018) among many other group exhibitions.   

He has been selected as an artist in residence at the Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, in collaboration with Emami Art Residency (Sept-Oct, 2022). 

Ghana Shyam is the recipient of Dhi Support Grant (2020), National Garhi Scholarship (2017) of Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Takshila Santiniketan Fine Art Scholarship from Takshila Educational Society, (New Delhi 2020).  

He lives and works in Santiniketan.