Woman with Vegetables

Choudhury was born in Faridpur, Bengal (now Bangladesh) in 1931. He moved to Calcutta, where he studied at the Government College of Art and Craft, but due to his Marxist beliefs, he was expelled before he could graduate. He returned to Bengal and graduated from Dhaka Art College (now Dhaka University).

Choudhury was one of the artists who formed the Society of Contemporary Artists in 1960. In 1964, along with Nikhil Biswas, Prakash Karmakar, Rabin Mondal, Jogen Chowdhury, and Dhiraj Chowdhury, he founded Calcutta Painters to break with the traditions of the Art School of Bengal. Art. In the late 1970s, he became director of the Indian College of Art and Drawing.

Choudhury died on 16 March 2012. After his death, the Bengal Fine Arts Gallery organized an exhibition of his paintings at the Bengal Gallery in May 2012.

BORN

1931 in Faridpur, Bangladesh

DIED

16 March 2012 Kolkata

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS

1945-49 Government College of Arts and Crafts, Calcutta

1953 Government Institute of Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1962 Gallery of Arts and Prints, Calcutta

1963 Gallery of Arts and Prints, Calcutta

1963 Patna

1974 Birla Academy of Art, Calcutta

1977 Retrospective, Alliance Francaise

1982 Miniature Exhibition, Paris

1985 Presented by the British Deputy High Commissioner, Calcutta

1986 Retrospective, Artistic Heritage, New Delhi.

1989 Paintings on Indian Music, Galerie 88.

1992 Artistic Heritage, New Delhi

2005 Aryan Art Gallery, New Delhi

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1959 Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta

1960 Society of Contemporary Artists, Calcutta.

1960 Banga Sanskriti Sammelan sponsored the show in Calcutta and Mumbai.

1964 Eight painters from the AIFACS gallery in Kolkata, New Delhi.

1964 Calcutta Painters, Calcutta

1965 Calcutta Painters, Calcutta

1966 Exhibition in honor of Giacometti at Art in Industry House, Calcutta

1968 Exhibition with Paritosh Sen, Pravas Sen, Sarban Roy Chowdhury, Mahim Rudra, Calcutta

1969 West Bengal Artists' Exhibition sponsored by Srinantwu, Mumbai

1974 Kolkata Painters at Birla Academy, Kolkata

1975 Third Triennial, New Delhi

1982-84 Indian artists, Stockholm

1982 Festival of India

1984 Indian Artists, Goethe Institute, Munich

1986 Exhibition on trends in Bengali arts at the Commonwealth Institute, London

1975 Kolkata Painters at Sridharani, New Delhi

1984 Joint exhibition with Prokash Karmakar at Triveni Kala Sangam, Calcutta

1988 West Bengal Artists of Today sponsored by Galerie 88, Calcutta

1990 Kolkata 300 Paintings Exhibition, Govt. from West Bengal, Calcutta

1990 Calcutta through the eyes of painters by Birla Academy of Art and Culture

1991 Bengal Art Today organized by Galerie 88 in Mumbai, Artists of Bengal organized by Arup Dutta, art critic in Bangalore 

HONORS AND AWARD

1963 Academy of Fine Arts Award, Calcutta

1978 Rabindra Bharati Award, Calcutta

1978 Documentary colored film entitled Bijan, made by Film Australia, Film Division of Govt. of Australia

1995 Abanindra Puroshkar, Govt. of West Bengal, Calcutta. He received the William Carey Award

2004 Doctorate, Rabindra Bharati University