Jogen Chowdhury was an Indian painter, one of the country’s most celebrated modern artists, known for his ink and pastel figures built from fine, cross-hatched lines. He taught for many years at Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan and served as a Trinamool Congress member of the Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2020. He died in Kolkata on 25 October 2026, aged 87.
Born in 1939 in Faridpur district, now in Bangladesh, he studied at the Government College of Art & Craft in Kolkata and at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
