Atia Islam Anne

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| name = Atia Islam Anne

| native_name = আতিয়া ইসলাম এ্যানি

| birth_date = 1962

| birth_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh

| occupation = Artist

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Atia Islam Anne is a Bangladeshi artist known for her work on women's regrets, needs, despair and frustration{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-92719|title=Atia Islam AnneImages of women objectified|date=2009-06-16|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023001359/http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-92719|archive-date=23 October 2017|df=dmy-all}} and, more broadly, violence against women. Along with artists like Dilara Begum Jolly, Kanak Chanpa Chakma, and Fareha Zeba, Anne is part of a movement of women artists whose feminist work became more popular during the 1990s in Bangladesh.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aaa.org.hk/Diaaalogue/Details/70|title=Diaaalogue|website=www.aaa.org.hk|access-date=2017-03-11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619162744/http://www.aaa.org.hk/Diaaalogue/Details/70|archive-date=19 June 2016|df=dmy-all}}

Biography

= Education =

In 1982 Anne received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and in 1985 received an MFA in Drawing and Painting at the same university.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dhakaartcenter.org/artist_directory/atia_islam_anne.html|title=Dhaka Art Center, Atia Islam Anne|website=www.dhakaartcenter.org|access-date=2017-03-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819133705/http://dhakaartcenter.org/artist_directory/atia_islam_anne.html|archive-date=19 August 2016|df=dmy-all}}

Career

=Major themes=

Atia Islam Anne's work has been cited as "testament to a newly awakening consciousness among the female artists of Bangladesh", particularly her "Women and Society" series as a satire on the dominant, male myth and simultaneously an attack on the patriarchal system, in which women are viewed solely as sex objects.{{Cite news|url=https://en.qantara.de/content/contemporary-art-in-dhaka-bangladesh-optimism-and-confusion|title=Contemporary Art in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Optimism and Confusion - Qantara.de|work=Qantara.de - Dialogue with the Islamic World|access-date=2017-03-11|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023001359/https://en.qantara.de/content/contemporary-art-in-dhaka-bangladesh-optimism-and-confusion|archive-date=23 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}

Atia Islam Anne's works are surrealistic and have a touch of fantasy, tinged with irony and humour. Her work highlights the tragic conditions brought on by misrule and abuse of power, with a clear message of social criticism running throughout.{{Cite web|url=http://www.departmag.com/index.php/en/detail/28/Reality-plumbed-and-unloaded|title=Depart Magazine{{!}}List Your Ad|website=www.departmag.com|language=en|access-date=2017-03-11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225025305/http://departmag.com/index.php/en/detail/28/Reality-plumbed-and-unloaded|archive-date=25 December 2016|df=dmy-all}}

Selected exhibitions

Between 1981 and 2009, Anne's work was included in over 60 group shows in China, USA, India, UK, France, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

In 2009, she held a solo exhibition entitled Inauspicious Time, at the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, described as " a satire on the dominant male myth and an attack on the hollowness of the patriarchal system where women are always sex objects."