BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Suniti Jiban Chakma was born in January in 1965 in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. He started painting as he was very young and studied Fine Arts in the best University of Bangladesh. After his graduation from the Institute of fine Arts of Dhaka University, he made several exhibitions to establish himself as an artist.
But, in 1989, he must leave the country because of its commitment to human rights in the resistance movement of minorities which he belongs to. He gets then the political asylum in France in 1990 and enters Fine Art School to go on with his higher studies thanks to a scholarship granted by the French Cultural Ministry from 1990 to 1994.He is graduated with honors from the Fine Arts Institute of Rennes where he also studied multimedia courses. From 1995 to 2001, he worked in a studio that was granted by the City of Rennes. He obtains French Nationality in 1995.
Meanwhile, he continued his artistic career interrupted in Bangladesh. In 1991, an important solo exhibition is organized in Paris, in La Grande Arche de la Fraternité. He takes part in various solo and group exhibitions in France and abroad. From 1994, his paintings were exhibited several times in Japan, in a Contemporary Art gallery as well as in a museum of fine Arts in Osaka. Suniti Jiban Chakma has been living and working as free-lance artist since 1998 in Le Mans, Sarthe.
Member of GoB of Hill Artist’s Group, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1996-2012 : President and founder of AJHA – Association Internationale Chakma – Le Mans; Editor of “JUMPADA”, News Bulletin of AJHA
EDUCATION :
- 1999 - 2000 Master Degree “Multimedia Espaces Plastiques / Espaces Numeriques,Institute of Fine Arts of Rennes, France.
- 1993 - 1994 DNSEP,” Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique” with Honors, Institute of Fine Arts of Rennes
- 1990 - 1991 DNAP, Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques with Honors, Institute of Fine Arts of Lorient, France.
- 1987 BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Second Class), Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
-2005 Salle Parage du Paty, Mairie de Villevêque (49)
-2001 « Le Pilier Rouge » Gallery Municipal theâtre, Le Mans
-2000 Chayamachi Gallery (Contemporary art) Osaka, Japan
-1999 Contemporary Art Center « Passerelle », Brest
- « L'Herberie, Cultural Center » Gallery, Coulaines,
-1998 « La Passerelle du Blavet » Gallery (Contemporary art) Hennebont
- IO Gallery (Contemporary art) Rennes
- Chayamachi Gallery (Contemporary art) Osaka, Japan
-1997 Institute of Fine Arts, Lorient
-1996 Patrick Gautier Gallery Contemporary art) Quimper
- Cultural Centre » Colombier » (Contemporary art, Rennes
-1995 Hirakata Municipal Gallery (Contemporary art),Osaka, Japon
- Chayamachi Gallery (Contemporary art) Osaka, Japon
-1994 Cultural Centre » Colombier »(Contemporary art), Rennes
-1992 Hall Henry Joubioux, City Hall of Lorient
-1991 Grande Arche de la Fraternité Gallery, Paris
-1989 Alliance Française Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- City hall of Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
-1987 Sonargaon Hotel Gallery , Dhaka, Bangladesh
-1986 City hall of Rangamati, Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES :
-2013 NovArt : contemporary art circuit, Villevêque
-2011 Athena Gallery of fine art, Dhaka, Bangladesh
-2008 Dhaka Art Center, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh
-2006 Indian Cultural Center Gallery, Dhaka ; Alliance Française, Dhaka
-2000 Chayamachi Gallery (Contemporary art), Osaka, Japon
-2000 “Puls’Art”International Contemporary Art Fair – Le Mans
-1999 « Bon Accueil » Gallery S.E.P.A. Site Expérimental de Pratique Artistiques, Rennes
-1999 Contemporary Art Centre « Passerelle »,Brest
- IO Gallery (Contemporary Art) Rennes
-1998 Tone International Miniature Art Exhibition), Dhaka, Bangladesh
-1998 Ecomusée de Montfort (Ille et Vilaine)
- « Open Atelier 98 » (with the partnership of the City of Rennes)
-1995 « Grand Prix de Peinture de la Ville de St Grégoire »
- « 1994 Graduated students » Galerie du Cloître », Rennes
- « Court – Circuit », Gallery of Cultural Center « Colombier”, Rennes
- Arts’ Forum, Festival Interceltique, Lorient
- 1992 « Grand Prix de Peinture de la Ville de St Grégoire »
- Arts’ Forum, Festival Interceltique, Lorient - Fine Arts Fair, Lorient Lorient (Prize : OLAC)
-1991 Fine Arts Fair, Lorient (Prize : Artarelle)
PUBLICATIONS :
- « Ateliers d’Artistes » édition Puls’Art Le Mans, ISBN 269515665-0-6
-1999 Cimaise n° 258 March - April 1999, « A propos d’Asie ? » color(French/English), Contemporay Art Center « Passerelle”, Brest, France
-1997 Brochure : Fine Art Intitute of Lorient, Gallery
- 1996 Full color catalog : Cultural Centre « Colombier, Rennes » et Patrick Gautier Gallery, Quimper
-1995 Full color catalog (Japanese / English) : Hirakata Municipal Gallery , Japan
-1991 Full color catalog (French / English), « Arche de la Fraternité », Paris
-1986 Black and white catalog (Bengali) : City Hall of Rangamati, Bangladesh
COLLECTIONS :
1 painting collected by University of Maine (Le Mans)
3 paintings collected by Municipal Museum of Hirakata (Osaka, Japon)
Paintings in private collections en France, Norway, Switzerland, Japan, Bangladesh
MISCELLANEOUS
Languages: French , English , Chakma , Bengali
