As part of the Campus’s "Lotus Transplanted: India and Its Diaspora" Conference, Chaudhuri’s art will be exhibited in the Campus’s Resnick Gallery through October 31. An opening reception will be held on Wednesday, October 8, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Born in Calcutta, India, Bivas Chaudhuri is an artist who creates mixed-media art forms that move from organic simplicity to a greater complexity. Trained in traditional Indian and western contemporary arts, Chaudhuri was educated at Scottish Church College, Government College of Art and Craft and the University of Calcutta in India, as well as at New York’s School of Visual Arts and Brooklyn College/CUNY, where he earned a Master’s of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on drawing, painting, print making and computer graphics.

His work has been seen at such institutions as the Queens Public Library, Queens Arts Center, Jacob Javits Center, LaGuardia Gallery, Asian American Arts Center, Bharatya Bidya Bhavan, Westbeth Gallery and the Permanent Mission of India. In addition, he has been an art critic, architectural draftsman and art restorer, as well as an art instructor at Brooklyn College.

Gallery hours are from Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday/Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information on the exhibit, call (718) 488-1198.