Hiran Mitra (born 1945) is an Indian artist based in Kolkata (West Bengal, India).
Mitra left his ancestral country home in Kharagpur to study Fine art in the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata at the age of 14.
His paintings are energetic abstract gestural paintings with the choreography of the human body observed from folk dance having influenced his recent calligraphic forms .
[1][2] He has contributed significantly to the visual stimulus in eastern Indian films,[3] television, theatre[4] and literature since in the 1980s[quantify].
He is also known to have defined a benchmark for book cover design for contemporary Bengali literature.