- 2001 Postgraduate Diploma in Archaeology, Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
- 1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Institute of Aesthetic Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Pradeep Chandrasiri is currently based in Colombo and works as a full-time professional artist. His art practice includes painting, sculpture, installation, and object art, which have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Sri Lanka as well as internationally. In addition, he has also been active in the performing arts, designing set designs for theater groups, and was art director in a number of film and video productions.
"In the late 1980s the insurgency in southern Sri Lanka, spearheaded by the Marxist-oriented political party JVP, and the counter terror campaigns by state security forces unleashed waves of violence hitherto not experienced in the country. Tens of thousands of women and men were killed or disappeared. Thousands of people, many young, were torured. Houses and buildings were damaged and burned. These were my teenage years.
About ten years later my work broken hands [not featured in this exhibition] came to life out of those memoirs. This art making experiennce was a reconciliation process, during which I tried to make sense of the conflict of which I was also a torture victim. "
