Srijon Chowdhury
Oscillating between Bangladesh and America as a child, Srijon Chowdhury’s paintings, sculptures, and installations are heavily referential to his personal identification with both countries he calls home. His pieces attempt to navigate the relationship between memory and history as they pertain to his past and the past of his ancestors. Chowdhury shares his own recollection of a single event or theme by illustrating repetitive motifs that gradually evolve through subtly applied alterations. Often hazy, blurry, and mysterious his creations have the ability to transfer acute emotion while still retaining an enigmatic material quality. Chowdhury creates art in order to encourage contemplation, reflection, and the access of knowledge. These experiences take place when viewers immerse themsevles within the spaces he creates, functioning as actors which activate the work. These spaces recall origin stories in which he intends to site in order to explain human nature and affect change, making the world more understanding and honest.
Recently Chowdhury has held solo exhibitions at Upfor in Portland, Klowden Mann in Los Angeles, Helen Bolsky Gallery in Los Angeles, and Dhaka in Bangladesh. Additionally he has also displayed works in group exhibitions at locations such as Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Sector 2337 in Chicago, …
Oscillating between Bangladesh and America as a child, Srijon Chowdhury’s paintings, sculptures, and installations are heavily referential to his personal identification with both countries he calls home. His pieces attempt to navigate the relationship between memory and history as they pertain to his past and the past of his ancestors. Chowdhury shares his own recollection of a single event or theme by illustrating repetitive motifs that gradually evolve through subtly applied alterations. Often hazy, blurry, and mysterious his creations have the ability to transfer acute emotion while still retaining an enigmatic material quality. Chowdhury creates art in order to encourage contemplation, reflection, and the access of knowledge. These experiences take place when viewers immerse themsevles within the spaces he creates, functioning as actors which activate the work. These spaces recall origin stories in which he intends to site in order to explain human nature and affect change, making the world more understanding and honest.
Recently Chowdhury has held solo exhibitions at Upfor in Portland, Klowden Mann in Los Angeles, Helen Bolsky Gallery in Los Angeles, and Dhaka in Bangladesh. Additionally he has also displayed works in group exhibitions at locations such as Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Sector 2337 in Chicago, UpFor in Portland, Torrance Art Museum in California, RH Contemporary Art in New York, and Santa Monica Museum of Art. In the past he has been nominated for the Pulse Prize and Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. In 2012 he received the Otis Governors Grant.
