Born in 1971, in Sodepur, West Bengal, Rajib Chowdhury is a Baroda based painter.
Printmaking has seriously influenced his style of work and it is often evident in his paintings. Having earlier worked in several media like oil, gouache, and watercolors, Rajib has found acrylic to be his preferred media for the last couple of years.’ Acrylic is also a good media in terms of longitivity and good maintenance of one painting’ says the artist.

Believing in experimentation, Rajib has used different images and various approaches at different periods of time ever since he has started painting. Yet, in totality the core of his works remains the same. The artist believes that his work is a means of expression of happiness and not of sorrow. The artist believes in creating a visual to emote his happiness to the viewer. There is enough of sadness around one and it is through Rajib’s work he wishes to remove himself from that reality and create a comfort zone. One may call it fantasy but it encompasses joy and fulfillment. In accordance to his nature, the works try to touch a level of fantasy, a stage beyond the reality of the present and existing yet not unimaginable.

Rajib’s work is human oriented in terms of the figurative and in sense of the experience. That each living moment is a reality, an experience and interaction with other people is important part of one life, and this translates into all of the artists work. Current events in the society are people oriented and the use of text in his paintings encores this sentiment. Even if the human figure is not actually present in a work, in the experience he is. The assorted images are an indication of his presence. Even messages and morals from epics like the Mahabharat in a contemporary setting give raise to some of Rajib’s paintings.