Background
Chowdhury was born in Ulpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) into a Zamindari family, and graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, in 1956.
Chowdhury was born in Ulpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) into a Zamindari family, and graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, in 1956.
He later studied under the sculptors Prodosh Dasgupta and Sankho Chaudhuri at the Master of Surgery University, Baroda.
Between 1960 and 1962, he served as the Head of the Department of Sculpture at the Indian Art College, Kolkata. Influenced by Indian sculptors like Prodosh Dasgupta as well as Western greats like Rodin, Roy Chowdhury found his inspiration in Hindustani classical music His sculptures feature a unique mix of the academic realism of the East and the more innovative cubism and abstraction of the West.
A book, Sensibility Objectified: The Sculptures of Sarbari Roy Choudhury, by historian R. Siva Kumar, was also released.