Tasadduk Hossain Dulu was born in Noakhali, Bangladesh, in 1971. He identifies with new voices from Chittagong who have been searching a fresh artistic vision. Cats, clay toys and curtains have frequently found a place in Dulu’s paintings. According to the artist, the curtain represents relationships. Dulu received a master’s degree in painting from the […]

Shambhu Acharya was born in 1954. His father Shudir Chandra Acharya was a patua and mother Kamola Bala Acharya was an alpona painter. His family has been practicing patachitra or scroll painting, for more than 450 years or nine generations. The themes of their paintings are drawn from the legends of Gaz Pir, Sree Krishna, […]

Samarjit Roy Chowdhury was born in Cumilla, Bangladesh, in 1937. He obtained a degree in graphic design from the Government Art Institute, Dhaka, in 1960. Childhood memories of the simple joys, harmonic patterns, and the cadence of rural life have found an important place in his vision as a painter. The artist’s simplified, nearly abstract […]

Jamaluddin Ahmed was born in Dhaka in 1955. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, in 1978. From 1980 to 1982, he did a two years research course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1982, he moved to Japan and studied oil painting at the University of Tsukuba […]

1945 – 2016 Yusuf Arakkal was born at Chavaghad, Kerala, in 1945. He lost both his parents when young and the hardships he faced early in life, honed the artist in him and sharpened his sensibility. He received a diploma in painting from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore, in 1973, and later specialised in graphic print […]

1935-2019 Born in Uttar Pradesh, India. Qualified in Painting from School of Art, Delhi Polytechnic during 1958-63. By the time he finished his studies he was a well-known artist and organiser in Delhi. He formed a group called ‘The Six’ with artists Jagdish Dey, Manjit Bawa, Nilmonee Chatterjee and others, and they exhibited at the […]

Swapan Nandy (b. 1948) graduated from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata, where his teachers were Gopal Ghose and Ganesh Haloi, among others. Later, settling in his hometown Agartala, in Tripura, Nandy immersed himself in painting, illustration, poetry and mime, and emerged as a leading cultural voice in the region. Poetry and painting, […]

Born in 1956 in Punjab, India, Sidharth started painting sign boards while still at school, but later progressed by learning the Thangka painting technique from the Thibetan monks at Dharmashala, where he spent six years. Eager to learn different techniques, he studied glass blowing in Sweden, techniques of Madhubani paintings, Kashmir Papier-mâché Crafts and other […]