Promiti Hossain is a Bangladeshi practicing artist with a background of mixed nationalities and religious descent. Born in Bangladesh in 1991, she has spent her life mostly in Dhaka, Bangladesh and partly with her family in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. She studied on Painting from Kalabhavana, Fine-Arts Department, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan (2010-2016). After completing her course in 2016, she continued her artistic pursuits in Santiniketan. She has participated in several national and International group exhibitions.
She was a participant of a group exhibition of the twelve shortlisted young artists for Samdani Art Award in “Seismic Movement”, Dhaka Art Summit 2020, curated by Philippe Pirotte.
She is the winner of the Samdani Art Award’s first ever jury’s special mention prize for her collaborative art project “personal and social”, awarded by Andrian Villar Rojas, Julie Mehretu, Eungie Joo and Carolyn Christov-Bakarviev.
She has also been one of the 100 recipients from Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Africa of the prestigious Prince Clause Seed Award 2022.
Selected Collections - Samdani Art Foundation, Duryoj Dhaka Foundation, Anvida & Vamsi Bandi (Hetero Pharmaceuticals) Collection Kruus (Estonia), Rosette Lascar (France), Arnaud van den Eynde de Riveren (Belgium), Sonia Henrion (France), Phillipe Delaunay (France), Meha Patel (Zydus Cadila), Priya Lalbhai Vora (Mumbai), Ena Singh (Delhi)
Selected Awards -
Prince Claud Seed Fund Award 2022, Special Jury Award Dhaka Art Summit 2020
Selected Residencies -
Hampi Art Labs 2024 (JSW), Samdani Art Residency 2024
Selected Art Fairs/Biennales - Dhaka Art Summit 2020, Venice Biennale 2022, Asia Now Paris 2023, India Art Fair 2024