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- Artist Name: Jogen Chowdhury
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- Year: 2007
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BORN - 15 February 1939 in Faridpur (present Bangladesh)
EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS
1965-67 Ecole Nationale, Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1960 Studio of Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1955-60 Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata
1960: Completes graduation from the Government College of Arts and Craft, Kolkata
HONORS AND AWARDS
1958: Best Award: Best Group of Watercolour Paintings, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1958: Best Award: Watercolour Painting, Calcutta University Institute Exhibition, Kolkata
1959: Gold Medal: Watercolour Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1959: Award: Watercolour Painting, Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata
1960: Award: Oil painting, Art Exhibition in Sreerampur, West Bengal
1965-67: Awarded French government scholarship, studies at L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts and Atelier 17, Paris
1966: Awarded Prix le France de la Jeune Peinture, Paris
1972: Award: Painting AIFACS, New Delhi
1979; Award: Graphic Arts, All India Graphic and Drawing Exhibition (Atul), Ahmedabad
1981: Award: Graphic Arts, All India Graphic and Drawing Exhibition (Atul), Ahmedabad
1986: Received award in the 2nd Biennale of Havana, Cuba
1995: Award (Honorable Mention), International Print Biennale, Bhopal
1997: Shiromani Award for Art, by Asian Paints, Kolkata
2000: Award from Ganakristi, Kolkata
2001: Awarded Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
EXHIBITIONS
1963: Drawings and Paintings, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata
1965: Drawings and Paintings, Bangla Sanskriti Sammelan, Kolkata
1966: Oil paintings, Galerie de Haut Pave, Paris
1968: Drawings and Paintings, Alliance Francaise de Madras, Chennai
1970: Ink and Mixed Media Works on Paper, Sarala Art Centre, Chennai
1972: Ink and Mixed Media Works on Paper, AIFACS Gallery, New Delhi, inaugurated by Shri V V Giri, President of India.
1976: Ink and Pastel Works on Paper, Embassy of India, Paris
1977: Ink and Pastel Works on Paper, Chanakya Art Gallery, New Delhi
1981: Ink and Pastel Works on Paper, Dhoornimal Art Gallery, New Delhi
1981: Ink and Pastel Works on Paper, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1982: Watercolour Paintings, Bithi Art Centre, Baroda
1983: Watercolour Paintings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad
1988: Ink and Pastel Works on Paper, Sista’s Art Gallery by Kala Yatra, Bangalore
1990: Drawings, Sarala Art Centre, Chennai
1992: Drawings with Ink and Pastel on Paper, Nandan, Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan
1993: Ink Brush Drawings on Poems by Namita Chowdhury, Little Gallery, Kolkata
1994: One Hundred Drawings, Seagull Art Foundation, Sukh Sagar, Kolkata
1994: Drawings, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
1994-95: Drawings, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
1996: Drawings and Paintings, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
1996: Drawings and Paintings, Glenbarra Art Museum, Japan
1996: Drawings, Gallery Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam
1997: Drawings with Pastel on Paper, Gallerie Foundation for Indian Artists, Art Fair, Amsterdam
1998: Coloured Drawings with Pastel Paper, Foundation for Indian Artists, Amsterdam
1998: Drawings and Paintings with Ink and Pastel, Gallerie, Mohnjeet, Paris
1999: Paintings with Ink and Pastel on Paper, Fine Art Resource, Berlin
2001: Coloured Drawings with Ink and Pastel, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
2002: Drawings and Paintings with Ink and Pastel on Paper, Bose- Pacia Modern, New York
2006: One Man Show, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata 2007
2007: Abahaman-Flowing Life, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2008 'A Calligraphy of Touch and Gaze', presented by Kalakriti Art Gallery at ICIA, Mumbai
2012-13 'Lignes de Meditation', Gallery Veda, Chennai
2014 'Jogen Chowdhury: Formative to Recent', Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1957: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi on View Till 1980
1965: Indian Painters in France, Nongent le Retrou
1967: Exhibition of artists-residents from Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1967: Prix le Franc de la Jeune Peinture, Galerie L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1970: Art Today- III, Kunika Chemould Gallery, New Delhi
1971: Second Triennale India, International Exhibition of Arts, Lalit Kale Akademi, New Delhi 1975: Third Triennale India, International Exhibition of Arts, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1976: International Exhibition, Cagnes-sur-Mer
1976: Pictorial Space, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1977: Fourth Triennale India, International Exhibition of Arts, Lalit Kale Akademi, New Delhi 1978: New Contemporaries, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1978: Fifteenth Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil 1979 Asian Art Exhibition, Fukuoka, Japan
1979: Indian Painting, National Art Academy, Dubai
1980: Place for People, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1980: Seven Indian Painters, Worpswed, Hanover, Hamburg, Braunschweig, and Bayreuth
1982: Contemporary Indian Paintings, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
1982: Contemporary Indian Paintings, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1982: Contemporary Indian Paintings, Festival of India, Royal Academy of Art, London
1982: Inaugural Exhibition, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1984: Contemporary Indian Paintings, Tokyo and other cities in Japan
1985: Third Anniversary Exhibition, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1985: Artistes Indians in France, Festival of India, Paris
1986: International Festival of Art, Baghdad
1936: Second Biennale of Havana, Cuba and also in Panama, Mexico and Brazil
1986: Contemporary Indian Painters, Germany and Poland
1986: First International Asian-European Biennale, Ankara
1986: Indian Art, Burlington, Worcester, Hanover, Pennsylvania, and New York
1986: Vision, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1987: Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Switzerland
1987: Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Moscow
1988: Contemporary Indian Art, Festival of India, Japan
1938: Olympiad of Art, Seoul
1988: 25 years of Gallery Chemould- Anniversary Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1989: 750 Years of Times of India, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (VT Station), Mumbai
1990: Bombay Art Society Centenary Show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1992: Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
1992: Young Contemporary Artists from SAARC Countries, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and also in Thiruvananthapuram
1992: Three Men Show, Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai
1993: Late Masters and Contemporary Artists, Oberoi Grand, Kolkata
1993: Wounds, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, and New Delhi
1993: Trends and Images, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
1994: Contemporary Indian Prints, Maltwood Art Museum, Victoria, Canada
1994: Indian Contemporary Miniatures, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
1995: Seven Contemporary Artists, Le Monde del Art, Paris
1995: Fantasy CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
1995: International Print Biennale, Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal
1995: Contemporary Indian Art, Deutsche Bank, Mumbai
1995: Contemporary Indian Artists, Bose Pacia Modern, New York
1995: Contemporary Art of India-Korea-Japan, Seoul and Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
1995: Collection of Glenberra Art Museum, Gallery Raku, Kyoto Zoukei Art University, Kyoto 1995: Autumn Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, AIFACS, New Delhi
1996: Contemporary Indian Paintings (from the Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal) Festival of Arts, Moscow
1996: Chamatkara, Whitley’s Art Gallery, London
1997: Intuitive Logic, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
1997: Tryst with Destiny- Art from Modern India (1947-1997), Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, CIMA Kolkata, and NGMA, New Delhi
1997: Image Beyond Image from the collection of Glenberra Art Museum, the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi and Mumbai; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata; Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore
1998: Search Within, Pernegg and Salzburg and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and Mumbai
1990: Multimedia, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
1999: Watermark, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
1999: Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore
2000: Satabdi, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata and NGMA, Mumbai 2011
2000: Calcutta Painters, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2000: Global View Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2000: Distillations, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
2000: Vilas, Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Mumbai
2001: Prabhav, Indian Embassy, Berlin
2001: Art of Bengal-Past & Present NGMA, Mumbai and CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
2001: Modem Indian Art Pundole Art Gallery, and Saffron Art, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York 2001: Two Man Show, Jamini Roy and Jogen Chowdhury, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2001: Works on Paper, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata
2002: Sidewinder, Indo-British artists show, British Council and CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, New Delhi, and Mumbai
2002: Aspects of Modem Indian Painting, Pundole Art Gallery and Saffron Art, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
2002: Palette 2002, Contemporary Indian Artists, Palette Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
2002: Contemporary Indian Art, Art Musings, Mumbai
2003: Art of Bengal- A Vision Defined, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi and CSMVS (formerly Prince of Wales Museum) Mumbai
2003: Rain, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2003: Drawing the Line, Gallery Threshold, New Delhi
2003: Faces, Gandhara Art Gallery, Kolkata
2003: A Celebration of Colours, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003: Art of Modern India, The Rye Arts Centre, New York
2003: Of Memories, Dreams, Reveries, Anant Art Gallery, New Delhi
2003: Fair and Furious- Feminine Fables, Art Alive Gallery, New Delhi
2003: Crossing Generations: Diverge- Forty years of Gallery Chemould, NGMA, Mumbai
2004: Realms of Fantasy, Delhi and Hong Kong Visual Art Centre, Hong Kong
2004: Portrait of a Decade, CIMA Gallery, Kolkata and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2004: Margi and the Des!, Lalit Kala Akademi Gallery, New Delhi
2004: Indian Artists for France-2004, The Embassy of France in India, New Delhi
2004: Harmony Show, Nehru Centre, Mumbai
2004: After Dark, Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai
2004: Indian Contemporary Art, Hart Gallery, Beijing
2006: Shadow Lines, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi
2006: Inventing/inverting Traditions, Grosvenor Vadehra, London as & Achievements
ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
1970: Becomes a member of Calcutta Painters, a group representing Calcutta Reality
1972: Joins Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, as Keeper of Art (1972-87)
1975: Founder Secretary of Gallery 26, Artists Forum, New Delhi
1976: Visits France on an invitation and participates in the international exhibition of Cagnes-sur-Mer
1977: Participates in artists’ camp at Kasauli organized by Vivan Sundaram
1979: Participates in artists’ workshop of the [alit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
1981: Founder Joint Editor of the art journal, Art Today along with the artist, Suvaprasanna
1982: Participates in artists workshop of Indian and German Artists in Braunschweig, Germany and Arezzo, Italy
1982: Participates in Festival of India. U.K
1983: Participates in artist’s workshop of Indian and German artists at Kasauli
1985: Participates in the Festival of India, France
1986: Represents Indian in the first International Festival of Art, Baghdad
1987: Joins Kala Bhavan, Santiniketan, Visva-Bharati as Reader, Department of Painting
1990: Jury Member, Biennale Exhibition, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1990: RPG publishes a portfolio of six paintings, released in Kolkata by Jyoti Basu, the then Chief Minister of West Bengal
1992: Participates in Confluence, and-French art camp, Kolkata
1993: Curator for the exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art, Dhaka organized by the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, New Delhi
1993: Illustrates a book of poems by Namita Chowdhury (Pratikshan Publication)
1993: Participates in art camp with other contemporary Indian artists at Pattaya, Thailand, Diarnona West Bengal, Kolkata, and Puri, Orissa
1995: Auction of Chester Herwitz Collection, Sotheby’s New York
1995: Christie's auction, London 1996 Member, Advisory Committee, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi (1996-98)
1996: Visits Glenbarra Museum, Japan
1996: Commissioner, Sixth Bharat Bhavan Biennale of Contemporary Indian Art, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopal
1996: Participates in Chamatkara, organized by CIMA Gallery, at Whitley’s Art Gallery, London
1997: Jury Member for Indian Section of the Triennale, India
1997: Convener of the seminar, Calcutta Metropolitan Festival of Arts, Kolkata
1998: Member, Advisory Committee, NGMA, New Delhi (1998-2000)
1999: Participates in art workshops: of Indian and Bangladeshi artists organized by the Bengal Foundation: Dhaka; at Nathdwara, organized by the Archer Group, Ahmedabad; at Khajuraho, organized by Sehar
2000: Visits Japan on invitation from Arai Kampo and Tagore Foundation, Ujiie and delivers a lecture on the art of Kala Bhavan and its relationship with Japan and Southeast Asia
2000: Portfolio of Serigraphs prints, Archer Gallery, Ahmedabad, released by Bhupen Khaknar
2000: Participates in the exhibition of Indian Art, Berlin
2003: Jury Member, Singapore Biennale Exhibition of Art, Singapore
2004: Participates in art camps in Australia, Thailand, Mumbai organized by RPG Jharkhand and by the Zest Group
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
1981: The Arts of India, by Basil Grey, Phaidon
1996: Image and Imagination by Geeti Sen, Mapin
1996: Jogen Chowdhury Chitrakala (Bengali), Arun Sen
1997: Indian Contemporary Art: Post Independence, Vadehra Art Gallery
1997: Major Trends in Indian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi
1997: The Flamed Mosaic, Indian Contemporary Painting by Neville Neville Tuli, HEART
2000: Dreams 1900-2000, edited by Lynn Gamwell, Cornell University Press
2000: When Was Modernism, by Gaeta Kapur, Tulika
2001: Indian Art, by Partha Mitter, Oxford
2002: A Special Issue on Jogen Chowdhury (Bengali), Nandimukh Publication
2003: Contemporary Art of Bengal, Mapin
2003: Indian Art—An Overview, edited by Gayatri Sinha, Rupa & Co.
2003: Ten Contemporary Artists of Bengal (Bengali) Pratikshan
2006: Jogen Chowdhury Enigmatic Visions, published by Glenbarra Art Museum, collected works from exhibitions at Pundole Art Gallery, Mumbai, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, Chitrakoot Art Gallery, Kolkata
ABOUT THE ARTIST
FILMS1997: A Painter’s Portrait, K. Bikram Singh, produced for Delhi Doordarshan
Hailing from a village in present-day Bangladesh, Jogen Chowdhury moved to Calcutta following Partition. A student of Prodosh Das Gupta, Chowdhury worked in a confident expressionistic style of figuration in his early years. His world was full of lewd men with bellies like sacks and women with loose, hanging breasts: his gallery of the grotesque. Over the years his pictorial language has undergone a radical change. A three-year sojourn in Paris reinforced his creative thought processes as he worked to arrive at a distinctive personal style. Chowdhury interprets the human form as simplified, as if through x-ray vision: attenuated, exaggerated, fragmented, reconfigured and rephrased, thus intensifying its visual and conceptual expression.
For Chowdhury, the body has to communicate in silence. Often placing them against a dark, vacant background, he does not appropriate the specificities of place or environment; instead, he transfers feelings of anguish on to the solitary figure through his gestural mark-making. His deep, dense crosshatched lines simulate body hair and a web of veins take away the smooth sensuality of the classical body to manifest the textures of life, and often a battered body. Chowdhury believes art in India is neither subsumed in the miniature traditions nor in those of Ajanta, for India is neither a monolith nor a static entity and that a notion of Indianness should not be fixed into some kind of timeless loop.
Jogen Chowdhury has been awarded the Madhya Pradesh government’s Kalidas Samman and at the 2nd Havana Biennale in Cuba. Chowdhury lives and works in Kolkata and Santiniketan.
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