Sayed Fida Hossain

“Face against face, mask against mask and silently self-exploration is internal history of my picture.”

b. 1989

Sayed Fida Hossain is a Bangladeshi painter and draftsman whose work combines introspective themes with a nuanced understanding of form and colour. Born in Dhaka, he studied Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, where he was recognized early in his career with a National Award for outstanding student work.

Hossain’s drawings and paintings explore human experience, memory, and emotion, often balancing surreal, expressive, and abstract elements. His work has been featured in national exhibitions, including the 18th National Art Exhibition in 2009, and continues to resonate for its sensitivity and depth.

Peers and the broader art community have celebrated his contributions through exhibitions such as Fida’r Jonno, a fundraising and tribute show that highlighted his creative achievements and the collective respect for his talent. His work embodies both youthful promise and the enduring power of artistic expression in Bangladesh.

Today, Sayed Fida Hossain is recognized as a compelling voice among emerging Bangladeshi artists, with a growing oeuvre that reflects sincerity, technical skill, and a profound engagement with the human condition.

Artist Statement

Working on ethological meter and existence of human nature and trying to give narration of human soul. My thinking is that we are living between three dimension, body, mind and spirit. It makes a triangular called soul. Fight between good spirit and greed, death is the only destination. Thoughts that's make a story of reality, death and beauty.

Face against face mask against mask and silently self-exploration is internal history of my picture. We always bound of our daily infra structural mechanical life we lost our inner existence and sometimes we find ourselves through the intellection and consciousness. It's a mysterious journey the existence of human being found by me in a word called "humanity" for me the definition of this new feelings is "synthetic feelings". Calculation doesn't match. I do make myself open like a box or try to find out the losing existence then I can analyzed myself as being postmortem of 'existing existence'.

“His bold canvasses are an extension of that process, which are almost self-analytical.”

– M.K. Aaref, Director, EMK Center

ENIGMA

Sayed Fida Hossain

Published by ARTCON

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Exhibition catalogue ENIGMA documenting Sayed Fida Hossain's first solo exhibition, presented by ARTcon at the EMK Center, Dhaka, from 16 to 28 July 2016.

The exhibition brings together a body of paintings through which Fida Hossain investigates the complexities of human existence, consciousness and the inner self. At the centre of his artistic inquiry is a triangulation of body, mind and spirit, which he understands collectively as the soul of a human being. His works explore the tensions inherent within this existence—the struggle between good and evil, the mechanical structures of everyday life, consciousness and unconsciousness, beauty and death.

Fida describes his practice as a process of silent self-exploration. Through faces, masks, figures and psychologically charged forms, his paintings become spaces for examining the relationship between external existence and an inner self that can become obscured by the routines and mechanisms of contemporary life. The artist's search for what he calls humanity emerges through intellectual reflection and an awareness of consciousness, transforming personal introspection into a broader meditation on human experience.