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Biren Shome is a renowned Bangladeshi painter, draughtsman, illustrator, and freedom fighter. His artworks portray the Liberation War and Language Movement through strong lines and simple visual forms. He worked in various media, including oil, acrylic, watercolour, pastel, and line drawing. His minimalist line drawings, especially white ink on black paper, are widely recognized. He received the Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Award and Atish Dipankar Gold Medal for his contributions to art and culture. In 2022, he received the Focus Bangladesh Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Acrylic on canvas
An open-air home for his abstract and semi-abstract works in iron, stone, granite and steel wire — carrying forward the themes of Liberation, folk culture and the human face that ran through his life's work.