Srijon Chowdhury
Srijon Chowdhury, Dandelion Song, 2021, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Srijon Chowdhury, Memorial Day Thistle, 2021, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Dandelion Song, 2021, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Srijon Chowdhury, Morning Glory with Dewdrops, 2021, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Dandelion Song, 2021, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Winter Still Life, 2021, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, A Still Life, 2021, Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France
Srijon Chowdhury, A prayer to end white supremacy, 2020, oil on linen, 6 x 8 in. (15.24 x 20.32 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, In the studio, 2020, oil on linen, 8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Cut Flowers, 2020, oil on linen, 8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, 2020, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Srijon Chowdhury, Narcissus, 2020, oil on linen, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Father and Son, 2020, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, 2020, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Srijon Chowdhury, An Old Dream, 2020, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Boy with a Rose (after JK), 2020, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Mother and Daughter, 2020, oil on linen, 9 x 12 in. (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Condo New York, 2019, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Srijon Chowdhury, Lilith with a Rose, 2019, oil on linen, 20 x16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm.)
Srijon Chowdhury, Flowers on Fire, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Crow with a Poppy, 2020, oil on linen, 16 x 20 in. (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, 2020, installation view, Foxy Production, New York
Srijon Chowdhury, Pale Rider, 2019, oil on canvas, 84 x 192 in. (213.36 x 487.68 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Night Flowers, 2019, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm.)
Srijon Chowdhury, Rose on Fire, 2019, oil on linen, 12 x 16 in. (30.48 x 40.64 cm.)
Srijon Chowdhury, Red Glowing Morning Glory, 2018, oil on linen, 42 4/5 x 30 in. (108.8 x 76.2 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Twin Peaks, 2019, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Flowers, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Flowers for Randy, 2019, oil on linen, 39 x 63 in. (99 x 160 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Fire, 2018, oil on linen, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Candle, 2019, oil on canvas, 8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Glowing Glory, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Before Dreams, 2018, installation view, Antoine Levi, Paris.
Srijon Chowdhury, Mother and Child, 2018, oil on linen, 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Green Vase, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Hurricane, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Boy, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Mirror, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Morning Glory, 2018, oil on linen, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, White Roses, 2018, oil on linen, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Ophelia, 2018, oil on linen, 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Vase, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Butterfly, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Candle, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, The Coldest Night, 2018, installation view, Upfor, Portland, OR.
Srijon Chowdhury, Phone, 2018, oil on linen, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Revelation Theater, 2018, installation view, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR.
Srijon Chowdhury, Revelation Theater, 2018, installation view, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR.
Srijon Chowdhury, Revelation Theater (Horsemen), 2017, oil on linen, 126 x 72 in. (320 x 182.88 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Revelation Theater (Dreamcatcher), 2017, oil on linen, 126 x 72 in. (320 x 182.88 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Revelation Theater (Fool), 2017, oil on linen, 126 x 72 in. (320 x 182.88 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Grey Bouquet 2, 2017, oil on linen, 36 x 24 in. (91.44 x 60.96 cm)
Srijon Chowdhury, Memory Theater, 2016, installation view, Upfor, Portland, OR.
Srijon Chowdhury, Memory Theater, 2016, installation view, Upfor, Portland, OR.
Srijon Chowdhury, Memory Theater, 2016, installation view, Upfor, Portland, OR.
Srijon Chowdhury, Since The Garden, 2016, installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles, CA.
Srijon Chowdhury, Anna drying her hair on the towels hanging from our bedroom door, 2016, oil on linen, 42 x 32 in. (106.68 x 81.28 cm)

Srijon Chowdhury highlights the structural role of symbolism in figurative painting, while making a direct address to the viewer that feels visceral, emotional, and personal. He is concerned with the psychic resonances that motifs can generate. Using a lexicon of still life art – animals, flowers, fruit, and candles – his canvases capture a sharp yet sensuous tension between mystery and revelation, and between fear and hope.

Chowdhury refigures the world around us in emotive scenes that mine the history of representation. He combines both Realist and Symbolist tendencies in his application of a mythical overlay to domestic stories. Color, both vivid and muted, washes over his scenes to hypnotic effect; always in the foreground, color acts as a central protagonist in his work. He has said: “Color affects a person viscerally and quickly. I think about the chakras which begin with crimson that root us to this reality and this body.”

Srijon Chowdhury (Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1987) lives and works in Portland, OR. He holds an MFA from the Otis College of Art and Design, and a BFA from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

Solo exhibitions include: “Same Old Song,” Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2022); “Srijon Chowdhury,” Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France; “Dandelion Song,” Foxy Production, New York, NY (both 2021); “Srijon Chowdhury,” Foxy Production, New York, NY (2020); “A Divine Dance,” Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (2019); “Before Dreams,” Antoine Levi, Paris, France; “The Coldest Night,” Upfor, Portland, OR; and “Endings,” The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR (all 2018). Selected group exhibitions include: “Halcyon and On and On,” organized by Jennifer Carvalho, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada; “Striving After Wind,” Chapter NY, New York, NY (both 2021); “Severed Symbol,” Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “Barely Furtive Pleasures,” Nir Altman, Munich, Germany (both 2020); “Cicatrices,” VO Curations, London, UK; “Portraits,” Foxy Production, New York, NY (both 2019); “Swamp Thing vs Man Thing,” Et Al, San Fransisco, CA (2018); “February,” Roberta Pelan, Toronto, Canada; and “Water & Dreams,” The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (both 2017).

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EXHIBITIONS
Srijon Chowdhury 2023 Fair
At Land 2022 Gallery
Srijon Chowdhury 2021 Gallery
Srijon Chowdhury 2020 Gallery
Condo New York 2019 2019 Gallery
Portraits 2019 Gallery
PUBLICATIONS