Palash Bhattacharjee

Palash Bhattacharjee has shifted over his career from an academically grounded printmaking practice towards multimedia and experimental work, a turn that came through a close encounter with performance art activism. His work carries the traces of that movement. He reads filmic genres and their performative idioms closely, and his image-making, his video style and his eclectic use of objects all draw on the non-narrative, contrapuntal logic of deconstructed storytelling in global cinema. Born and based in Chattogram, he holds a master's and a bachelor's degree from the Department of Fine Arts, Chittagong University. He was awarded the Asia Pacific Fellowship Residency at MMCA Goyang in 2011 and a grant from the Seoksu Art Project of Stone & Water, South Korea, in 2010. His work has shown widely in Bangladesh, including Chobi Mela 2021, Dhaka Art Summit and the Asian Art Biennale, and internationally at SOAS Gallery and Shahnaz Gallery in London, Warehouse421 in Abu Dhabi, and Colomboscope in Sri Lanka.