| Trained in the beaux arts tradition in the fifties, Rahman was an important figure in the modernist movement of painting in the country. He studied in the London Central School of Art and Design (1956) and trained in Florence in mural painting (1953). Rahman worked as a research scholar in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1958 to ‘59. Later he taught in Montreal, Canada. He, along with Novera Ahmed, developed the design of the 1952 Language Movement Martyrs Memorial (Shaheed Minar) in Dhaka. Notable among his awards are the First prize at the 5th Tehran Biennale, Commonwealth Painters Association Best Award, President’s Award for Pride of Performance in Painting (1970) and the Ekushey Padak (1980). |