Shishir Bhattacharjee

Shishir Bhattacharjee (born 1960) is a Bangladeshi artist. His paintings, critical of the political establishment but always in a satirical fashion, were first seen in the 1980s. His political cartoons appear regularly in daily newspapers in Bangladesh. During the past couple of years, he has produced paintings that appropriate images from Bengali film posters, altered to serve his social and political messages.

Education Shishir received a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Institute of Fine Art, Dhaka University, Bangladesh, in 1983. He received his master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1987.

Career Shishir is a political cartoonist for Prothom Alo, the largest-circulation Bengali-language newspaper in Bangladesh, and an associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Dhaka. His caricature style has influenced a new generation of illustrators In September 2025, Bhattacharjee held a solo drawing exhibition at Kalakendra in Lalmatia, Dhaka, where his works explored themes of natural catastrophe, human relationships, and political hypocrisy.

Teaching career Shishir has been teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts since 1989 at the University of Dhaka. As being an educator he has been invited as guest teacher at Slade School of Art in London. Under his teaching several students got reputation nationally and internationally including Firoz Mahmud and few others.