KUHU PLAMONDON

Kuhu Plamondon’s practice moves between painting, drawing, textile, and wearable art, exploring the intersections of the feminine form, urban life, and adornment. Her visual language brings together vibrant color, expressive figures, and interwoven elements of flora and fauna, while her fascination with the city – its movement, architecture, lights, and people—provides an important source of inspiration. Extending her fine-art practice into fashion and textiles, she treats garments and fabric as artistic surfaces, creating a fluid dialogue between art, design, and everyday life.

Born in Dhaka, Kuhu Plamondon studied Drawing and Painting at the Institute of Fine Arts (now the Faculty of Fine Arts), University of Dhaka, graduating in 1977, and completed her Master’s degree in 1983. Her early engagement with figure drawing developed alongside a longstanding interest in fashion and the adornment of the human body. Over the years, this interest evolved into a multidisciplinary practice encompassing painting, textile design, fashion, and wearable art. She is also a founding member of Shako, a non-profit association of women artists in Dhaka.

Plamondon has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Bangladesh and internationally, with presentations in Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Denmark, and France. Her solo exhibitions include The Making of Kuhu Art-II and The Making of Kuhu Art III, the latter presented at Edge Gallery in 2022, bringing together paintings, drawings, mixed-media works, and textile-based pieces.

Her works have been presented in galleries and cultural platforms in Bangladesh and abroad, establishing her as a distinctive multidisciplinary voice within contemporary Bangladeshi art. Through her continued exploration of painting, textiles, and fashion, Kuhu Plamondon challenges the boundaries between fine art and functional design, with the human figure and the lived experience of the city remaining central to her practice.