Spark Artist

Painting & installation

Oscillating between a highly stylized technique and uncanny realism, Srijon Chowdhury (b. 1987) crafts prismatic compositions that mine universal elements from daily life. Combining interests in philosophy, religion, ecology and art history, Chowdhury’s intensely saturated and hypnotic compositions transform the artist’s immediate environment into immersive dreamscapes where the boundaries between metaphysical and physical realities transform into the mythological and supernatural. Chowdhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and lives and works in Portland, OR. He received a BFA from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, and an MFA from the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. He has been awarded grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, 2018; Regional Arts and Culture Council, 2018; Precipice Fund (Andy Warhol Foundation, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, & Calligram Foundation), 2017; and the Otis Governors Grant, 2012. Chowdhury has presented solo exhibitions at The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; and Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France and Milan, Italy; among others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Ames Yavuz, Singapore; Podium Gallery, Hong Kong; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA; Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada; Chapter NY, New York, NY; Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR; Nir Altman, Munich, Germany; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; among others. Chowdhury presented his first solo museum exhibition, Same Old Song, at the Frye Art Museum in 2022. His fifth solo exhibition with Ciaccia Levi, The Whorled, was presented in Paris, France in Fall 2025. Chowdhury’s debut solo exhibition with P·P·O·W, Tapestry, was on view in Fall 2024. His work was recently on view in Here, To you, Now, the 2026 Converge 45 Triennial, Portland, OR.