Emran sohel is a visual art practitioner based in Dhaka. He started his academic career as a fine art student at Faculty of fine arts, University Of Rajshahi and Dhaka, after that in 2007 he shifted to Santiniketan (India) then completed his BFA and MFA degree in Drawing and Painting from Kala Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan. Emran Sohel’s academic years at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan in India 2007-13, has inspired him to explore multidisciplinary art practitioner whose work spring out of his interpretations of local and global contexts of modernity, post modernity and all other contemporary conditions which defy categorization. He operates from within the space between natural and manmade space, personal and social times while taking into account secret lives of plants and objects. Emran’s research on community life and ritual based performance and public art in the context of public act where there is an integrated practice of art and culture and political art engages with local cultural form and generate a different approach to performance art as a new platform for critical social and cultural practice in public place where public life is a multilayered heterogeneous situation of community life and ritual. He has explored several ways of expression through painting, assemblage, sculptural installations, performance, interactive projects, and others. From his academic period, he has participated in many group exhibitions, workshops, site-specific art project, and residency program in Bangladesh and Abroad. And he is One of the founder member of collective artist group call Daagi Art Garage. Which was formed lust for a new dimension from the believe of collectiveness in 2013.


