He graduated from the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata and subsequently at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris in 1967.

Lines and its tactile characteristic to enhance colours is an important material in Indian Art for ages.

In Chowdhury’s more recent works the sensory experiences of cloth, bolsters, sofas and the human body are cross-projected to produce an uncanny world of tran-substantiated tumescence and flaccidness.

Mnemic displacements and personal associations add to the symbolic ambivalence of his motifs, making his images come closer to inexplicable experiences than to explicit signs.

In the postures of some figures we feel an animal sentience, in the ripe anatomy of others we savour a fruity succulence.

The figures are wrought by a combination of decorative wilfulness and expressive distortion and are imbued with an effusive sensuality.

Chowdhury’s art is rich in suggestions; it is to be apprehended without bracketing our fund of knowledge, experience or memories, but also cannot be narrativised without trivialising it, without depleting its sensory particularities.

He quit his job at the Madras Handloom Board in 1972 to join the Art Gallery of Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi as a Curator.

[5][6] 5.Retrospective exhibition of Jogen Chowdhury at National Gallery of Modern Art, Bangalore in Apr 2016 [1]