Portfolio - Masum Chisty

kmchisty07@gmail.com
Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty
Visual Artist
Phone: 0088 01715 112861
04/12/2013
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Entering the flesh again 2014
media: paper, charcoal, graphite, good leaf, photo image
size: width 147.32, height 101.6 cm
With my male physical form I do think; this not the complete structure of human beings, without female
appendage it’s just unending experience of the life. I born but never give birth; never indulge pregnancy,
the most important sensations and essence of human body that I never joy.
But when the Bhagavad Gita states;
Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall
any of us cease to be. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from childhood to
youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not
bewildered by such a change.
and,
Worn-out garments are shed by the body; Worn-out bodies are shed by the dweller within the
body. New bodies are donned by the dweller, like garments.
And I do fantasized subsequently incarnation. This not believes this one of my fantasy in others.
Spirited Away 01, 2013
Media: Paper, pencil, charcoal, color coated thread
Size: width 22.86, height 68.58 cm
The drawing is based on ancient Bangla manuscript ‘Charjagiti’, which was Tantrik song.
Spirited Away 02, 2013
Media: Paper, pencil, charcoal, color coated thread
Size: width 22.86, height 68.58 cm
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Spirited Away 03, 2013
Media: Paper, pencil, charcoal, color coated thread
Size: width 22.86, height 68.58 cm
(The ‘Spirited Away’ is sequel drawing series, be continue to 48)
Meghnath Badh (The killing of Meghnath) 2013
Media: paper, charcoal
Each size: width 81, height 58.42 cm
‘Meghnath Badh Kabbo’ is the Bangla epic written by Michel Modhusudhan Datt. The drawing
follow the poetry.
Neuroneuronal Manuscript, 2013
media: paper, charcoal,
Size: width - 355.6, height - 81.28 cm
Detail
Landing of Gebril, 2013
media: paper, charcoal
Size: width 198.12, height 147.32 cm
Detail
Melting 2014
Object installation with sound, media: sound, ice, fish, size: ice cube 27.94²cm
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auXk_UVKLh8&feature=youtu.be
No One That to Blame 2014
media: earth, telescope, foot wear
size: length 270, width 91, height 152 cm
This work has done in a project of Britto Art Trust titled ‘No Man’s Land’, which 600 meters away from
no-man’s-land of India-Bangladesh border.
The Desire, 2013
media: small terracotta pottery
size: length 182, width 76, height 152 cm
Some Text about Life, 2013
media: Seeds, Sand, paper
size: width 63, height 86.36 cm
An Artificial Grassland, 2012
media: Light, Fiber optics
Size: length 147.32, width 76.2, height 15.24 cm
Vabo Rango Nattomoncche Korte Aaichi Ovinoy 2014
The Acting
Animation Poster
Printed poster and single channel projection
Screen size: width 23, height 35 inches
Animation duration: 00:39 min
Video file : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLHgTuiZG7M
Quandary, 2011
Animation (1:00 min), Installation with 99 key frame drawing, each frame size: 32cm × 23cm
Venice Bennale, 2011
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYVlSZK62aM
Travel for Letter 02, (animation) 2009
Still frams
Duration: 1:15 min
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_UuzAdpRMA
Ludu Budu, (animation) 2009
Still frames
Duration: 1:06 min
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dmOCwSLkns
Newspaper, (animation) 2006
Still frames
Duration: 00:35 min
Balloon Man, (animation) 2004
Still frames
Duration: 1:15 min
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTk6tJxFtMs
Spring 03, 2011
A series of land art Installations
54 Venice Beinnale
Spring 02, 2010
A series of land art Installations
Spring 01, 2010
A series of land art Installations
Size: 457 × 457 × 914.4 cm (approximate)
Stream of color, 2010
Media: Colored Bamboo stick
Size: length 762, width 457 cm
A Landscape in River, 2012
media: Balloons
size: length 213 width 152 cm
Life in Relation, 2010
media: Balloon
Black Spring, 2010
media: Balloons
Balloons installed on wave in the sea, afterward wave made the composition on beach.
Rhyme of Sea, 2009
media: Bamboo and bells
A sound composition that created by wind from sea.
Laugini (Bush fire), 2008
(Collaboration with Sultana Haquim)
media: Cloths
Size: length 6766, width 1828 cm
Try to fill empty palm with fake word, 2009
Performance
During the period of exhibition (7 days); been to the gallery, pick some word from inside the palms
bordering newspaper that laid on floor and sketch over.
Angel in the Kathmandu, 2007
Performance
Duration: day long
Democratic Thinker, 2004
Performance
Duration: 45 min
Plastic Democracy, 2005
Puppet Show
Duration: 30 min
Fossil, 2009
media: Wood
Size: 76.2× 76.2 ×91.44 cm
Pregnant Goddess 1998
media: Bronze
size: 20.32 × 25.4 × 17.8 cm
Pregnant Goat 1999
media: Paper and wire
size: 48 × 30 × 38 inches
KABIR AHMED MASUM CHISTY
(Visual Artist)
EDUCATION
1998
MFA, Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka, Dhaka
1996
BFA, Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka, Dhaka
UPCOMING EVENT
2014
The 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Artist in Residence, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
SOLO EXHIBITION
2007
1ST Solo Exhibition, Narayanganj, Bangladesh
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Readymade, Contemporary Art from Bangladesh, Aicon Gallery, New York
Living Scraps, A site Specific Art Project, Hossain DockyardKeraniganj, Dhaka curated
by Imran Sohel
'1134' - Lives not Numbers, Pathshala South Asian Media Academy, Dhaka curated
by Munem Wasif and Mahbubur Rahman
No Man’s Land, A Land art project, Sylhet, Organised by Britto Arts Trust
Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka Organized by Samdani Art Foundation Curated by Diana
Campbell Betancourt
Cross Casting, Celebrating 12 years’ journey of Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh
curated by Mahbubur Rahman
2012
Kunstvlaai : INexactly THIS, Festival of Independents 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A Journey Forward, Dhaka Art Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2011
The Great Opening, Studio Paolo W. Tamburella, Rome, Italy
Parables: Pavilion of Bangladesh, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale 2011
Gervasuti Foundation, Venice, Italy curated by Mary Angela Schroth and Paolo
W. Tamburella
2010
Asian Art Biennale/Re-cite/Re-cycle, National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka,
Bangladesh
2009
1mile² Dhaka, Public Art Project, Bulbul Lalitkala Academy, Old Dhaka, Bangladesh
Britto New Media Festival, National Art Gallery, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2008
Off the Beaten Path, South Asian Artists’ Exhibition, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka
Bangladesh
2007
Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, organized by Vaskor, Alliance François de Dhaka,
Bangladesh
2005
Group Art Exhibition, organized by Britto Arts Trust, Alliance François de Dhaka, Bangladesh
2003
Transformation (a group metal sculpture show) Alliance François de Dhaka, Bangladesh
2002
Contemporary Sculpture of Bangladesh organized by Vaskor, Alliance François de Dhaka,
Bangladesh
Dokra (Traditional Metal Casting) exhibition Indian Cultural Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1997 – 2003 Participant of National Art Exhibition, Young Art Exhibition and Asian Art Exhibition in
Bangladesh, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
1999
Exposer 7, Nepal Arts Council, Kathmandu, Nepal
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / WORK EXPERIENCE
2008 – Current
2003 – Current
Chairperson, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Founder Trustee, Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Britto Arts Trust is an artist run non-profit organization that works on the grounds of
facilitating new and alternative art practices in contemporary art of Bangladesh.
(www.brittoarts.com)
2010 – 2013
Daily Sangbad, Artist / Cartoonist
2004 – 2009
Sesame Street Bangladesh, Animation Director
Projects conceived & devised: 30 episodes animation (per episode 40 sec –1min) per
season with the context of pre-school child education. Led a team of 20 people-working
group.
WORKSHOPS
2009
Image Manipulation Workshop, organized by Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka
1mile² Dhaka, a two month long project organized by Britto Arts Trust Bangladesh and Visiting
Arts UK
Across the Street, 3rd Video Art Workshop organized by Britto Arts Trust
2008
2007
2005
Theertha International Artists’ Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Sutra International Artists’ Workshop, Kathmandu, Nepal
Script-writing & Animation Training program conducted by Ram Mohan (India), organized
by Unicef, Bangladesh
Britto International Artists’ Workshop organized by Britto Arts Trust, Bogra, Bangladesh
2004
Movement Will Become Sculpture, organized by Britto Arts Trust, Bangladesh
2003
Britto International Artists’ Workshop, Tepantor Film Studio, Bhaluka, Bangladesh
2002
Stone carving Workshop, organized by Jindal Art Foundation, Karnataka, India Bangladesh
SYMPOSIUM
2009
HK International Sculpture Symposium, Hong Kong, China
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2005
Best Short Film in Dhaka International Short & Individual Film Festival 2005, Dhaka
1997
Honorable Mention for Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Art, University of Dhaka
2014
Nomination for Samdani Art Award
RESIDENCIES
2004
2002
Britto Arts Trust, Bangladesh (8 weeks)
Jindal Art Foundation, Karnataka, India (4 weeks)
COLLECTIONS
Private collection Samdani Art Fundation