Arinjoy Sen is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia GSAPP.
Arinjoy works as an architectural designer in London, while exploring his interests and research through an art-based practice. Sen’s concerns in his artistic practice ranges from the politics and aesthetics of architecture to the instrumentalization of spatial agents in socio-cultural and political phenomena. His work and interests have an acute focus on contested landscapes, citizenship, migration, narrative and spatial justice. Drawing plays a crucial role in Arinjoy’s work, where it not only becomes an incubator for the exploration of narrative and space, but also a tool for addressing critical histories.
His practice of image-making — paralleling manual and digital processes with deep cultural research — proved to be an essential expression of his architectural research and narrative interests. This spatial-visual praxis is rooted in critical historical and cultural study, weaving the rituals, myths and narratives of place. Sen uses the digital medium combined with traditional craft practices like kantha embroidery and carpet weaving to speak of intertextuality where the past, present and future are interlaced in a singular, yet hybrid visual plane.
Sen’s works have been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024-25) acquired as part of their permanent collection, the Royal Academy of Art, London (2025), La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2023), the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2023), the Royal Institute of British Architects, London (2024), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon (2024), India Art Fair, New Delhi (2024-26) and more. His work has garnered positive reception from The Guardian, The Observer, Dezeen, e-flux, STIRworld and Wallpaper among others. Sen’s writings have appeared in the Architect’s Journal, the Architectural Review, The Funambulist, RIBA Designs on History, the RIBA Journal, the Architectural Digest, Numero Art and the Indian Express among several others.
