Born in 1992 in West Midnapore, Ghana Shyam Latua studied painting from Kala Bhavana,
Visva-Bharati University, graduating in 2017.
Latua was a part of many Group Exhibitions and Art Fars, including Art Mumbai 2024; Art Dusseldorf, Germany, 2024; All That is Hidden: Mapping departures in Landscape, Terrains and Geographies at Emami Art, Kolkata, 2024; The Garden of Infinite Desires, Emami Art, Kolkata, 2023; India Art Fair, 2023; Takshila Fine Arts Scholars Show, Arthsila Santiniketan, 2022; Patterns of Intensity at Art Alive (New Delhi, 2021); Dih-Pahr-Cher at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2020; Inside the Fibre at Arts Acre Museum, Kolkata, 2020; Annual Exhibition at SSVAAD, Santiniketan, 2019; CIMA Award Show and Summer Show, Kolkata in 2019; Inward Vision at Arts Acre Museum, Kolkata, 2018; Pentamerous at Art Exposure in 2028; The Shape of Things curated by Ushmita Sahu at Ganges Art Gallery, Kolkata, 2017; Maitreyi, an Ind-Bangladesh Group Show at Rabindra Sadan, Kolkata, 2016; Group Exhibition at Russian Centre for Science and Culture, 2013 and many more.
His last solo show, The Lament of the Red Earth, was at Tapetenwerk Gallery, Leipzig,
Germany (2022) as part of the International Artists Residency Program by the Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation in collaboration with Emami Art. His other notable solo shows are, Khoai Landscape at Emami Art (online exhibition), Kolkata, 2021 and Occupying
Space at Gallery Exposure, Kolkata in 2018.
Ghana Shyam Latua is the recipient of the Inception Grant (2021) from Artincept Artpilgrim, New Delhi, the Dhi Support Grant (2020), the National Garhi Scholarship (2017) from Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and Takshila Santiniketan Fine Art Scholarship from Takshila
Educational Society (New Delhi 2020).
He lives and works in Santiniketan, West Bengal.