Biswajit Thakuria is a visual artist from Assam, India. His work engages with memory, landscape, and violence, and with what remains after histories of erasure. He is interested in how violence is carried through images, archives, testimonies, and landscapes, and how we become implicated through the ways we look, record, represent, and consume it. Working across fiction and non-fiction, cinema and videogames, he traces what is remembered, what disappears, and what remains outside the frame.

This inquiry began from his native place, Assam, India, shaped by the extrajudicial killings of the late 1990s, one of the darkest chapters in the state’s political history. In his first project, Remembering the Landscape, he looked at how the state produces and stages memory through archives and state-represented tableaux. He placed these official forms of remembering alongside the private and public memories of families who had lost their loved ones during this period of state violence. The project looked at the gap between how a history is remembered publicly and how it continues to live within those who experienced its loss.

More recently, this inquiry has moved into cinema and videogames. Most of the violence we encounter is through images rather than through direct experience. Films, archives, and games shape how we look at violence, what we remember, and whose lives we notice. In his recent film, People I Saw Killed in a City and People I Killed in a City, made with CAMP, Mumbai, he looks at anonymous deaths in Bollywood cinema, alongside the expendable non-player characters of videogames, such as the NPC figures in Hitman, who exist within the game to be killed and disappear. By placing these fictional deaths in conversation with historical archives of Mumbai violence, he looks at how images teach us to look at violence, and how certain deaths become visible, memorable, or forgotten.

Across these projects, he is interested in these questions because every act of representing violence also raises the question of our own position within it: how we look, which side we take, what we choose to see, and how we become part of the violence we witness.

He completed his BFA and MFA in Painting at Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University. He has participated in several notable exhibitions and residencies, including the Students’ Biennale at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2022–23), Other highlights include the Immerse Fellowship 2.0 in Mumbai (2023), and the SNANE residency in Shillong (2024). He received the Prince Claus Seed Award (2023) and the Inlaks Fine Art Award (2025), and was included in Looking Ahead: 30 Under 30 by Art India Magazine (2026).