born in 1974, He received his Bachelor of Visual Art in Painting from Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, in 2001.

He was awarded the Best Watercolourist title by the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata between 1996 and 1997. He has held numerous solo exhibitions and group shows in some of the most prestigious galleries in India. He have made extensive tours throughout the world, taking part in international art camps.

Avijit is the curator of the exhibitions 'Lost in Transition', at the, The Harrington Street Arts Centre, Kolkata and 'Tradition and Transition' watercolours from India and China, at Kalakriti Art Gallery, Hyderabad.

The overall appearance of finished works yields a certain kind of veiled and misty effect that is often pale and relatively monochromatic. The artist never uses bright and contrasting colours. The hues are always minimised. What is most unique is the treatment of tints, shades and gradations. The figures and forms seem to appear and disappear from within the shades of surrounding spaces.

The best way to describe the technique is through the term ‘painterliness’. One may also point out the intermittent and liberal use of chiaroscuro in Avijit's compositions that is the effects of light and the formation of gradual organic shadows leaving no traces of lines in between.

Avijit Lives and works in Kolkata.