Artist and activist Jogen Chowdhury was born in 1939, Faridpur, Bangladesh. Jogen Chowdhury is an alumnus of the Government College of Art and Crafts, Kolkata, after which he studied at the prestigious Ecole Nationale, Superieure des Beaux - Arts, Paris from 1965 to 1967. He has held many solo and group exhibitions throughout his career and has been the 1966 recipient of the Prix le France de la Jeune Peinture, Paris. He was awarded the Kalidas Samman by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 2001. He joined as a teacher in the Painting Dept. Kala Bhavana after leaving the post of Keeper of Art at the RashtrapatiBhavana in 1987. As a teacher Jogen is always a warm inspiration to his students. He organized and founded art activities such as Delhi Founded Gallery 26 Artists Forum, Calcutta Painters, Kolkata International Foundation of Arts. Professor Emeritus of Visva Bharati, Kala Bhavana, Jogen Chowdhury lives and works in Santiniketan and Kolkata. Jogen Chowdhury himself is a master of lines and he has mastered to make the curves depict the character of his figures. By careful distortion of the form he imparts the air of caricature in his figures, figures of men and women. The figure is always the most important and conveys all the artist has to express. Color, he uses though, is to provide matter into the form. He developed a unique style of painting with ink, watercolor and pastel. His artworks feature meandering lines that contour soft, flaccid figures. Cross-hatching is another tool he frequently uses, to achieve variations in the tone and texture of his artwork. Jogen Chowdhury is known for marrying traditional imagery with a very contemporary style of painting, in a blend of urbane self-awareness and a highly localized Bengali influence.