Abu Naser Robii is a multidisciplinary visual and performance artist, curator, and cultural organizer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His artistic practice spans painting, drawing, installation, socially engaged art, and performance, and is shaped by a deep interest in spirituality, ecological awareness, collective memory, vulnerability, transformation, and the shifting relationship between human beings and their environments.
Born in Chattogram in 1975, Robii received both his BFA and MFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Chittagong. Over the years, his work has evolved into an expansive and interdisciplinary body of practice that moves beyond the production of objects and into the realm of action, participation, and lived experience. He is especially interested in how the body can become a site of memory, resistance, resilience, and transcendence, and how art can open spaces for dialogue, empathy, and reflection.
In 2004, he founded Porapara Space for Artists, an independent artist-run platform dedicated to experimental art, public interventions, performance practices, artist residencies, and international cultural exchange. Through this initiative, he has played a significant role in shaping contemporary and performance art discourse in Bangladesh by curating, coordinating, and facilitating workshops, exhibitions, talks, residencies, and collaborative projects with artists and institutions from Bangladesh and abroad.
Robii’s work has been presented in Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan, Nepal, Jordan, and other international contexts. His practice is grounded in both artistic research and social engagement, and continues to explore the tension between individuality and collectivity, visibility and invisibility, permanence and impermanence. Alongside his own creative practice, he remains committed to building platforms that support emerging artists, experimental practices, and meaningful cultural exchange.
