Artists

A small showcase studio for the Aki marketplace launch — pieces drawn from a private collection, displayed here while the platform onboards real artists.

A legend of the Bangladeshi and French art worlds, internationally recognised for the dynamic speed of his brushwork — figures in motion, captured mid-stride. His subjects are freedom fighters, the Liberation War, and the language of human power.

A master of modern printmaking and abstract painting, held in equally high regard in Spain and Bangladesh. His practice is rooted in materiality — the surface, the mark, the trace of process. His subjects are abstract nature, atmosphere, and the wisdom of the earth.

A leading Bangladeshi artist who has brought the lives of the indigenous communities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts onto an international canvas. Her work is at once celebratory and quietly observational — the people, the lifestyle, the Buddhist monks of the hills.

A distinguished Bangladeshi painter and senior professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Her work carries a quiet, contemplative aesthetic rooted in the rhythms of riverine Bengal — riverine life, fishermen, and her iconic prawn (chingri) series.

Brings the world of Bengali folk art — palligiti, ballads, the visual language of the rural — onto the modern canvas. His paintings work like illustrated poems, drawing from Mahua, Malua, Maimansingha Gitika, and the Nakshi Kantha tradition.

Known for her transcendental, feminine perspective on motherhood, nature, and the environment. Her work has a quiet spiritual register — deeply personal, rendered with restraint. Her best-known cycle is the Madonna series.

The creator of Tokai — one of the most recognisable cartoon characters in Bangladeshi popular culture. Beyond cartooning, Ranabi is a distinguished painter and woodcut artist with decades of work on urban struggle, street children, and rural landscapes.