Bijan Choudhury

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

ABOUT THE ARTIST
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.

Notification - We do not usually display Bijan Choudhury's work, only send it to private art collectors and interested art buyers.

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