Mithun Ahmed

Mithun Ahmed is a New York-based visual artist and activist. He is a connoisseur of various forms of art and literature. His artistic productions are usually unconventional and avant-garde. His philosophy rests on deconstructing society through visual-cum-performance arts. After he completed his higher secondary diploma from Notre Dame College, he received his Master’s degree from the University of Dhaka in Linguistics, and worked as a cultural organizer and activist in Bangladesh in the 80s. Since the 90s, he has been in the United States and is actively serving the community of his country of origin. He is the current president of the Combined Cultural Alliance of North America, an organization of the Bangladeshi diaspora in the US. He wrote and directed a play, 'Bong Koinnyer Pala', and a musical narrative, 'Alibi Lullaby'. He has exhibited two conceptual art installations: 'Marching with Lamps', in solidarity with the slain Bangladeshi bloggers, and 'Memory Against Oblivion', about Bengali cultural history going back to 1940. He is currently working on a documentary film about the war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh's Tribunal for War Criminals. He wrote a coffee table book, 'Pocketful Poems'. ABONAGOBON is a painting series of Chorjapod's female characters. He also has a solo performance production named: 'Sculpting Thoughts' [BHAABNAR BHASHKORJO]. He has created his last installation, 'Box Painting' [BAKSHO CHITRA]. ­ The 80s were the time when millions rose against the autocratic regime of General Ershad. That decade also gave birth to the warcrime trial movement, spearheaded by Shahid Janani Jahanara Imam. Mithun Ahmed, as a politico-cultural activist, took part in the movements mentioned above. He is one of the artists who founded recitation as an art form of its own right in Bangladesh. Since then, he has been working in group theater and as a cultural activist.