Dhiraj Choudhary

Art and culture cannot be separated from life, they make our roots very strong. Infact art brings us very close to ourselves in this chain of emotions and expressions one name should not be forgotten he is Dhiraj Choudhary. Dhiraj Choudhary was born in Bangladesh in 1936, as every artist has his particular line of work, Dhiraj Choudhary is a politically motivated artist chose the lives of poor as his subject of art.



Dhiraj Choudhary always believe to portray how a common and poor man go through different phases of life. For him art is not merely an exercise to get technical expertise and he has never persued art for art's sake, his belief is to show the bitter realities of life. Dhiraj Choudhary found no other better way than painting to show his expression.

Dhiraj Choudhary has come out with the portraits like hungry and tortured people who are still striving for their lives. A clear picture of our society that is untouched still, he adds “the pictures I paint may not be pretty, but they portray a real expression of my love for humanity”. It is his struggle of 50 years.