BIJON CHOWDHURY

Bijon Chowdhury was born in the year 1931. He studied at the Government College of Arts, Kolkata but graduated from the Government College Institute of Arts in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has exhibited widely in India and abroad. Bijon Chowdhury has won many awards, which includes the award from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1963 and the Rabindra Bharati Award in 1978. A politically aware painter, like many of his time, he felt that abstractions in art are caused by frustrations resulting from a capitalist atmosphere.