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Nazia Andaleeb Preema (born 1974. Bangladesh) is one of Bangladesh’s most prolific and thought provoking artist-activist, performer, entrepreneur centering predominantly on diverse creativity through visual arts and leadership. Perhaps one of the most illustrious phenomena and cutting edge personality in the country. She has received multiple awards, including prestigious Bangladesh National Museum Award (1987) for Nationwide Bangla handwriting competition, Web site design and development (digital media category/2002) by BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technologies) Honorable Mention Award in (Fine Arts) category and Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin Award in 2017, prestigious Anannya Women Award (2014), BASIS Leading Artist of (2017), “Pride of Bangladesh” (2017), and many more. She is Director and Creative Editor of leadership and thought-leadership platform Director, Bangladesh Brand Forum (2006), President, Women in Leadership (WIL/2014) and Founder, /CEO of Bangladesh Creative Forum (BCF/2014), respectively, one of the many subsidiaries of the organization. In 2019 she launched PAB (Performance Art Bangladesh) to inspire generation to practice live art and the enormous possibility of body texture as new media. She is the owner of Preema’s Atelier, design studio (1999).

Early Life

Andaleeb enrolled in the Institute of Fine Arts at University of Dhaka, earning her BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) degree in 1998 after her SSC (1989) and HSC (1991) from Holy Cross School and Collage. She went on to do receive her Master’s degree in Fine Art (Drawing and Painting) from the same institute at University of Dhaka in 2000. In addition, she obtained a diploma (7 years/1990-1997) on Classical Music and Tagore Songs from the renowned music school, Chhayanaut from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has been awarded numbers of prestigious grands for visual arts and leadership. She did an honorable fellowship at Global Arts Village, New Delhi in 2005. Andaleeb, at the age of 14 accomplished 5 years dance (Classical/Bharat Nattom) degree from BAFA, an acclaimed dance and music school of the country.

Career

Andaleeb Preema formed her art and design house, Preema’s Atelier, in which all her creative masterpieces (painting, graphic design, web design, animation) are derived from, since 1999. Accordingly, she was a visiting faculty of the Department of Architecture (Art Appreciation) at North South University from 2007 until 2010. She was the Portal Chief of Bangladeshinfo.com in from ( 2000 to 2004). Subsequently, she has been assumed the role of Adviser at its commemoration later, Director/Creative Editor of Bangladesh Brand Forum since 2006 till present (2020). Alongside that, she commenced Women in Leadership (WIL) in 2014 as the president of the organization and has been till now.

Public Figure

As a public figure, Andaleeb Preema has been cited as one of the most influential and bold personalities in the Bangladeshi art/creative industry. She has been applauded for her distinctive and outside-of-the-box mode of expression to break stereotypes at diverse dimension – her critical thinking and scrutiny has been called a fervent complex creative analyst. She has had a profound effect on design discipline and brand & communications in traditional and digital media. She believes in promoting and disrupting the conformist manner of the local corporate and creative arena through constant learning and exploring new possibilities. She considers transmuting the social dynamic dome via creative enterprises. Besides her strong aptitude in triggering thought-provoking ideas, she is one of the most impactful and powerful feminists of the country, breaking taboos of traditional society into contemporary. Her personal life is a pure and honest reflection of her belief for empowerment to change the system and lead the next generation ahead.

Publications and Portfolio

‘Preema Donna – An Infinite Journey’(2020), a book by Nazia Andaleeb Preema, was launched on December 22, 2019. The book is divided into five chapters: Conflict, Wonder, Courage, Vision, and Connection and is Published and produced by Cosmos Books. The book demonstrates evidence of Preema’s artistic journey of the last two decades (1995-2019). It also illustrates Preema’s brave approach of aesthetical vision that depicts her philosophy of context.

“Staring Women”(2009) – A four-color portfolio, published by The Bengal Foundation to celebrate preema’s 12 the solo exposition at the Bengal Shilpalaya, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her decades of practice and process along with 24 C prints of her works were presented chronologically to keep a record of her continued journey as an artist of her kind.

Exhibitions

PAINTING WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITIONS

2019	Represented Bangladesh in 58th Venice Biennale

2017	Exhibition of Women Artists of Bangladesh at Rogue Space Gallery, Manhattan, NY

2017	Performance Art Week by Bengal Art Lounge, Dhaka

2017	National Performance Art Festival organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy

2017	Collaborative Performance Week at KYOSHO, Japan

2017	International Festival of Live Art by Dhaka Live Art Association

2016	Asian Art Biennale organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy

2016	Independent representation at 3rd Edition of Dhaka Art Summit at Cosmos pav

2015	Performance art workshop organized by Samdani Art Foundation, Shilpakala Academy

2009	Art camp in Saint Martin by the contemporary artists of Bangladesh

2008	International Tuyap Art Fair, participated as the Koridoor artist, in Istanbul, Turkey

2008	A month-long international artist residency program in “Compeung Art Village” (www.compeung.org), Chiang Mai, Thailand

2007	Printmaking Workshop, “French Technique”, organized by the Alliance Francaise de Dacca, Dhaka

2006	A month-long residency in Mille Colony, New York

2005	Residency in “Khoj” Kolkata, India

Sessions and Paper presentation

2017	Session on ‘Cutting Edge Creativity’ at Communication Summit by BBF

2017	Keynote at Women Leadership Summit organized by WIL (Women in Leadership)

2016	Paper presentation on the performance ‘Intimacy Conflict’ at Studio Kura, Fukuaka, Japan

2015	Motivational speech at 7 districts on ‘Creativity for Women in Leadership under the initiative ‘Bangladesh YouthFest’

2015	Breakout Session at University at Liberal Arts, on ‘Moving Images’

2014	‘Art and Islam’ Presentation at the arts faculty on language day, University of Dhaka

2014	Keynote in Bangladesh Leadership Summit organized by Bangladesh Brand Forum

2014	Keynote in Bangladesh Leadership Summit organized by Bangladesh Brand Forum

2013	In conversation with Students of North South University on ‘Art Appreciation’

2012	Keynote paper on Contemporary women Artist’s in Asia at Asian University of Women Bangladesh in Chittagong.

Solo Exhibitions

2017	Objectified at Bistaar, Chittagong

2016	Intimacy Conflict at Studio Kura, Fukuaka, Japan

2015	‘Objectified’, Art Junction Gallery, Delhi, India

2013	‘Prima Donna’, Bengal Art Lounge, Dhaka

2012	Art Basel Miami, Florida

2012	Moving IMAGES at Saffronart Gallery, New York

2011	14th Staring Women in the National Theatre Hall, Rabat, Morocco

2010	13th Staring Women – series of video’s at Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka

2010	Keynote paper presentation on Muslim Bengali Women, State  University,  Penn  State

2010	Keynote paper presentation on Muslim Bengali Women, State  University,  Penn  State

2009	Keynote paper in the 3rd Brand Forum Seminar on the topic of “Connecting soul to touch emotion” in Dhaka, Bangladesh

2009	Staring Women, series of lectures in the Faculty of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

2009	12th Staring Women in Canvas Gallery, Lahor, Pakistan

2008	11th “Labyrinth of Abstraction” La Galerie, Alliance Francaise de Dacca

2008	“Islam and Sculpture”, paper presented at the Arts Faculty, University of Dhaka

2008	10th Exhibition titled “Mysterious Strokes”, at Minimal Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2007	9th Exhibition in Gallery Delray, New Orleans, Louisiana

2006	8th solo painting exhibition titled “Untitled 2006” at Art and Soul gallery, Dhaka

2005	7th solo painting exhibition titled “Paint and Pixel” La Gallery at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka and in Mumbai as same titled

2004	6th solo painting exhibition at Novo Art Gallery, Queens Blvd, USA

2004	5th solo online exhibition at www.preema.net

2003	4th solo painting exhibition, Chuwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003	3rd solo painting exhibition titled ‘Senses 2’, La Gallery at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka

2002	2nd solo painting exhibition titled ‘Senses’ at Drik Gallery, Dhaka

1999	1st solo painting exhibition Titled ‘Prarombho’at Alliance Francaise de Dhaka

Major Group Exhibitions

2014	Dhaka Art Summit, National Art Gallery (Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy), Dhaka

2014	Contemporary Artist Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2012	Art Asia Miami, Art Basel, Miami, Florida

2011	Le Bangladesh a Paris, Contemporary visual art exposition in France at Cite International des Arts at Paris, France

2011	Moving Image 9, featured 9 visual artist from Bangladesh at Saffron Art Gallery, New York