Jahangir Hossain, born in 1964 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is a prominent contemporary painter whose practice bridges figuration and abstraction. He entered the professional art world as a self-employed artist in 1982 and later formalised his training at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, graduating in 1989. He went on to earn his master's degree from the same institution in 2004. Throughout his career, he has preferred to work independently as a freelance artist, developing a personal style shaped by modern and Western influences while remaining rooted in South Asian subject matter. Hossain’s imagery ranges widely from horses and human figures to dynamic cityscapes and rural scenes. He is fluent...