Bijan Choudhury, a Bengali painter, was born in 1931, in Faridapur, Bengal (now Bangladesh) His political leanings led to him being expelled from the Government College of Art and Craft before he graduated He then returned to Bengal and completed his unfinished graduation from the University of Dhaka Choudhury, along with Nikhil Biswas, Rabin Mondal, Jogen Chowdhury, Dharaj Chowdhury and Prakash Karmarkar, founded the Calcutta Painters to break from the conventional traditions of the Bengal School of Art He later headed the Indian College of Art and Draftsmanship 

He held a ‘Retrospective’ at Kolkata in 1963 and a miniature interpretation at Paris in 1982 Among the many shows he participated in were Indian Artists at Goethe Institute, Munich in 1984, Trends in Bengal Art at London in 1986, the Festival of India in 1982, The III Triennale, New Delhi in 1975, and Indian Artists at Stockholm in 1982 He was the founder, and fellow member of the Society of Contemporary Artists and a member of the Democratic Writers and Artists Association He believed that abstractions in art were caused due to mere confusion, dilemma and turmoil caused by a capitalist environment While his art narrates stories of Bengali poetry and human nature, it never sensationalises nor explicitly symbolises He passed away on March 16, 2012