Sitikanta Samantsinghar born in 1991, Odisha, INDIA Currently lives and works in Odisha. He has got his Master degree in painting from Amity University, Noida (2018) and an Graduate degree in painting from government college of art and crafts, Odisha, India (2014). In 2018, he received Junior Fellowship Award from the ministry of culture, India (2017- 2018),he received CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS from [WORLD UNIVERSITY OF DESGIN] in 2020, he was selected in 60th National Lalit kala Academy Exhibition at NGMA, Mumbai. He was selected in 38th State Lalit kala Academy, 2019, at Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He was selected in [Online Presentation] [CREATIVITY INDUSTRY] Indian youth Delegation in the 6TH Youth Summit being organized under [BRICS] Chairmanship of Russia in Online format, Russia, 2020.He was selected in Group Exhibition [MUSEUM OF GOA AND RMZ FOUNDATION] at RMZ Eco World, Bangalore, 2020. He was selected in [Goa Affordable Art fest] [Museum of Goa], 2019, Goa. He was selected in {Barbil Art Project – IV}, {UTSHA FOUNDATION AND ARYA FOUNDATION} Curated By: PROF.PRADOSH MISHRA, 2019, Barbil, Odisha. He was selected in A Group Exhibition of Emerging palettes, 2019, at SHRISHTI Art GALLERY, Hyderabad. He was selected in [kOOSHK SPACE 118 residency programs] {IRAN-INDIA exchange program}, at Deegarplatform, 2019, Tehran, Iran. He was selected in {ART AND SCIENCE} [CYCLE 18 Primal Art Residency],2018, Mumbai. He was selected in (NEXT – STEP RESIDENCY PROGRAM) 2018, 1SHANTHIROAD studio/Gallery, Bangalore. He was participated in [INDIA ART FAIR] 2017, in Amity university stall, New Delhi. His works published in AI ILLUSTRATED Magazine [AI PROJECT 100 VENTURE] [BEST 100 ARTIST PROJECT],2021. His works published in [INDIAN ART DURING LOCK DOWN PERIOD] focus on 200 contemporary artists, Edited by: Manoj Kumar tripathy,2021.His works published in Art Review [INDIAN CREATIVE MINDS] [The Magazine of Art and Culture] Volume- V Issue- V, Sept- October, 2019, New Delhi. He has Conversation with Pranamita Borgohani [Curator] [ THE PHANTOM OF A FERTILE LAND] [Umnyama] sponsored by Young hearts and Hexxyduxxy Box in online format, 2020.His works has always been influenced by the social realities surrounding him. He has been addressing the issues related to poverty, forced labour, malnutrition and food wastage from the formative years of his college. He has experienced such issues in his native village where disparities between such social power structures coerce the common man to become destitute. He metaphorically introduces certain imagery in his paintings to address these issues. He engages with such histories of oppression often merging such realities with surrealist imageries in order to lend a new voice to these issues where realities and expectation merge with each other. In his process drawing /painting, he often experiments with materials and surfaces his incorporating non-traditional materials such as smoke burns in his images. He also has been experimenting with text-based installation in recent years.