Musician and Artist Shumona Haque

Shumona Haque’s paintings are mainly texture-based. Her paintings reflect her cheerful personality through the use of different colors.

Shumona Haque, known as the "Queen of Jingles", is a musician and artist. Her mother Khaleda Edib Chowdhury was a poet. Shumona Haque has four solo albums of modern and Rabindra Sangeet. She has lent her voice to more than 2000 jingles. As a painter, she tries to portray the beauty of nature in abstract form using acrylic and oil paint on her canvas.

Image: 'Colours of Love' (51" x 81", Acrylic On Canvas)

Shumona Haque completed her B.F.A. (1988) and M.F.A. (1990) in the Department of Drawing and Painting of the Institute of Fine Art, University of Dhaka. She has had 5 solo exhibitions so far:

1997: 'Apon Moner Madhury', Zainul Gallery, Institute of Fine Art, University of Dhaka.

2001: 'Mon Aaj Apon Mone', Zainul Gallery, Institute of Fine Art, University of Dhaka.

2002: 'Nostalgia', Chuwa Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.

2011: 'Moner Aakashey Rongdhonu: Symphony of Colours'. Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2012: 'Moner Ronge Nibir Khela: Playing Colors'. Embassy of Bangladesh, Washinton D.C, USA.

2025 :"Colours of Love", LOUNGE COMIDA@ Rafflesia, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Image: Artist Shumona Haque with artist Rafiqun Nabi on the opening day

Image: 'Colours of Love' (44" x 44", Acrylic On Canvas)

Image: 'Colours of Love' (50" x 50", Acrylic On Canvas)

Image: Some pictures from the exhibition

(54" x 18", Oil On Canvas)

(54" x 18", Oil On Canvas)

(54" x 18", Oil On Canvas)

Image: 'Colours of Love' (81" x 51", Acrylic On Canvas)

Seven colors of rainbow, harmony of musical tunes, poetic smell of nature

inspires the random strokes on canvas to express the feelings of my mind.

The nature which is full of wonders and unlimited joy has brought love and only Love.

"There is a charm even in depression" ~tried to be proven in the colorful canvas,, !! if only one looks in such a way !!

-Shumona Haque

Image: 'Colours of Love' (81" x 51", Acrylic On Canvas)

Image: 'Colours of Love' (81" x 51", Acrylic On Canvas)

Image: 'Colours of Love' (51" x 81", Acrylic On Canvas)

Image: 'Colours of Love' (51" x 81", Acrylic On Canvas)

Artist Shumona Haque also participated in several group exhibitions:

2023: "plat forms" Group Art Exhibition organized by ISHO, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

2019: 23rd National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2016: "Colours of Bangladesh" Bangladesh Embassy, Manila, Phillippines.

1997-2001: 8th and 10th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

1989-2000: 9th, 12th, 13th & 14th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

1990: 5^th Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art Exhibition, Gallery Tone, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Image: 'Colours of Love' (44" x 44", Acrylic On Canvas)

(44" x 44", Acrylic On Canvas)

(44" x 44", Oil On Canvas)

(32" x 32", Acrylic On Canvas)

(27" x 27", Oil On Canvas)

(32" x 32", Acrylic On Canvas)

Image: Some pictures from the exhibition

Image: Some pictures from the exhibition

Image: Some pictures from the exhibition

Nature is the unlimited treasure of my painting.

From the very childhood, I was surrounded by nature and music. Green horizon, sparkling water of the ponds, moonlit nights, southern breeze, colorful flowers, symphonies amused me.

Colors of music and colors of nature came to me altogether. Both enriched my feelings and compelled me of brush my inner self on my canvas.

Woman and Nature are synonymous to me. Beauty of an woman reflects the nature and I tried to depict this romantic outlook in an abstract form.

-Shumona Haque

Image: 'Song of Nature'

Image: 'Song of Nature' (21" x 36", Acrylic On Canvas)

Late Atiqul Haque Chowdhury (renowned playwright, director, teacher and cultural figure of Bangladesh), said about artist Shumona Haque in 2011:

"Shumona Haque is both a vocalist and a painter par excellence. She has been delineating paintings ardently for years. Her paintings provide the audience with distinctive bright colours. It is neither simply a stroke of brush nor the form of lines, rather the manifestations of a myriad of bright colours. Her paintings certainly have depth. Her paintings express serenity amidst disorder and fortitude amidst restlessness. Her lines and colours always change from time to time but this change of lines and colours have made Shumona Haque build up a rapport with life. Her paintings can not but enchant the viewers thoroughly, stirring their hearts and making them spell- bound. She not only has created an effort of light and shade with the help of various colours but her controlled artistic existence has been projected as well. The stroke of her brush can move easily but her expressions are full of passions and emotions. Her works are nothing but an excellent fusion of light and colours which overcome the periphery of grammar creating a musical orchestration."