Pradeep Chandrasiri
(b. 1968)
Born in Kandy and working and living in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Pradeep Chandrasiri is one of the more acclaimed artists belonging to the first generation of younger artists to have come into prominence by the ’90s trend in the later years of the 1990’s. Chandrasiri studied for his BFA (Painting and Sculpture) Institute of Aesthetic studies, at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka in 1997 and a Diploma (archeology) Postgraduate Institute of Archeology, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2003. The main focus of Chandrasiri’s work has always been violence, more specifically; political violence, made ever more poignant by the end of the civil war.
