SRIJON CHOWDHURY
Srijon Chowdhury (b. 1987 in Bangladesh) received his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design (2013). Intended to act in the space between knowledge and emotion, his dream-like oil paintings consider the present moment as part of a larger, intuited (perhaps mythic) history. Chowdhury frequently uses repetition to examine the changes and removal that occur with each remembering or re-telling of history, a concept rooted in the experience of overlap and disjunction.
His monumental Revelation Theater was part of Endings, a two-artist exhibition curated by Blake Shell in early 2018 at The Art Gym. Other exhibitors include Antoine Levi, Paris; Foxy Productions, New York; Klowden Mann, The Torrance Art Museum, JAUS, Launch Gallery and Helen Bolsky Gallery in Los Angeles; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Sector 2337, Chicago; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; and The Gallery in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Chowdhury conceived and organized the Utopian Visions Art Fair with support from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, PICA’s 2018 T:BA Festival and Pegasus Project. Chowdhury’s awards include a 2018 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. He is based in Portland, OR, where he runs an alternative exhibition space with Anna Margaret, Chicken Coop Contemporary.