Suhas Roy was born in 1926 in erstwhile Bengal and received a Diploma in Painting from the Indian College of Arts and Draughtsman ship in Kolkata in 1958. In 1965 he went to France on a French Cultural Scholarship, and studied at the Atelier 17 and the Ecole National Superiere des Beaux Arts. In 1974 he joined Santiniketan as a lecturer and taught painting there. Roy has had solo shows in Kolkata, New Delhi and Bangalore. He has exhibited at various exhibitions internationally. His depiction of sensuality and mystical /beautiful portraits is largely inspired by local Santhali (tribal) women and construction labourers. The naturalistic and ‘ethereal’ female portraits evoke lyricism and are poetic.

The Artist lives and works in Kolkata.