Arnab Basu is a Bangalore based visual and performance artist, who works in the area of environmental art, site-based art, ephemeral media and community engagement. He has a Bachelors and Masters in Fine Arts, specialising in Sculpture from Kala Bhavana, Visvabharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. He is also a National scholarship holder from the Ministry of Culture, Indian Government in the field of Sculpture.
Arnab has participated in various workshops, art camps and symposiums. Arnab’s works have been showcased in exhibitions, both in India and abroad. Although a major body of his works are site specific and ephemeral in nature, some of Arnab’s works can also bee seen in private collections.

Arnab has had formal training and performed in various parts of India as a dancer, musician as well as a member of the professional theatre group ’Sahityika’. He has conducted many theatre workshops and worked on Scenography Design in Santiniketan, Kolkata, IIT Kanpur and Bangalore.

Prior to joining SMI, Arnab worked at ‘Sloka’ The Hyderabad Waldorf School, as a visual art, theatre, and movement faculty, where he collaborated with child psychologists in developing and conducting movement workshops/sessions for children with special needs.