Shishir Bhattacharjee

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shishir Bhattacharjee, Come and See the Game

Shishir Bhattacharjee (Bengali: শিশির ভট্টাচার্য্য) (born 1960) is an artist in Bangladesh. His paintings, critical of the political establishment but always in a satirical fashion, were first seen in the 1980s. His political cartoons appear regularly in daily newspapers in Bangladesh. During the past couple of years, he has produced paintings that appropriate images from Bengali film posters, altered to serve his social and political messages.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Exhibitions
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Education

He received a Master of Arts in Creative Painting from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Gujarat, India, in 1987. He received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Institute of Fine Art, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, in 1983.

[edit] Career

Shishir Bhattacharjee, untitled, ink on canvas

He is a political cartoonist for the Bangladeshi daily newspaper Prothom Alo^[1] and an Associate Professor of the Institute of Fine Art, Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

[edit] Exhibitions

Shishir Bhattacharjee presented his first solo exhibition in 1994 in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and his second solo in 2000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He took part in a group exhibition under the ArtSouthAsia programme in Manchester, UK, in 2002. He participated in a group exhibition in Pakistan. A month-long exhibition of Bhattacharjee took place in September 2007 in Japan.^[1] In March,2008 he has a group Exhibition in New York.