Kalidas Karmakar (10 January 1946 – 18 October 2019)[1] was a Bangladeshi artist.

[5] Karmakar completed a two-year pre-degree course at Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka.

In 1969, he later graduated from Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata.

[1] His first ever-major solo exhibition was held at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy Gallery in August 1976.

He worked with the English painter Stanley William Hayter.