SUMANTO CHOWDHURY IS A HYDERABAD BASED ARTIST. HE HAS BEEN WORKING HERE FOR LAST 10 YEARS. HE WAS BORN IN 1979 IN WEST BENGAL AND STUDIED B.F.A (BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN FINE ARTS PAINTING) FROM KALA BHAVANA VISVA BHARATI, SANTINIKETAN. IN 2004 HE CAME TO HYDERABAD AND JOIN MASTER OF FINE ARTS GRAPHIC FROM S.N, SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD FOR MASTERS DEGREE. BY 2006 HE HAS COMPLETED M.F.A. IN PRINTMAKING.

SUMANTO CHOWDHURY’S CANVASES ARE THE MIRROR OF RURAL, URBAN AND SUBURBAN LANDSCAPES. NATURE AND HABITATIONS COME SIMULTANEOUSLY IN HIS PAINTINGS. FROM THE CHILDHOOD HE WAS IMPRESSED BY THE RURAL LANDSCAPE OF WEST BENGAL. PRESENTLY THE CITYSCAPE OF HYDERABAD ALSO ATTRACTING HIM. HIS PAST AND PRESENT EXPERIENCES CREATE HIS IMAGINARY WORLD. IN SUMANTO’S PAINTING COLORS ARE VERY SYMBOLIC. PINK, BLUE, RED, YELLOW, EMERALD GREEN COME TOGETHER TO HOLD THE DIFFERENT MOODS OF A DAY. CHOWDHURY PORTRAYS PEOPLE AND THE CITY THROUGH PAINTINGS, ETCHINGS, FIBERGLASS SCULPTURES AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORKS THAT COMBINE PAINTINGS AND ETCHINGS. HIS INTEREST IN INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS HAS A GREAT SIGNIFICANCE IN HIS WORKS AND DETAILS OF EVERY IMAGE BOTH FOR THE INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR SHOWS THE NARRATIVE TENDENCY OF THE ARTIST. STYLISTICALLY HIS WORKS ARE SEMI-REALISTIC. THE UNIQUE PART OF HIS LANDSCAPES IS THE ABSENCE OF IMAGES OF HUMAN BEINGS, THOUGH ONE CAN FEEL THEIR PRESENCE. THE VIEWER IS THRILLED WITH THE WIDE-ANGLE VIEW OF THE LANDSCAPE AND THE ENDLESS SKY.

HE HAS PARTICIPATED IN SEVERAL GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS HE HAS RECEIVED EMERGING ARTISTS AWARD; -PRAFULLA ART FOUNDATION AWARD -2015, FROM MUMBAI.