Mohammad Kibria

Mohammad Kibria

Born & Death
1929 – 2011
Details
A forerunner of the modernist movement, Mohammad Kibria has been a significant force in shaping the destiny of art in Bangladesh. Kibria graduated from the Kolkata Government Art School in 1950. By the time his language of expression congealed into a viable vocabulary following the end of his period of study and apprenticeship in Japan, which left him emboldened enough to have mobilized his own sets of desire and to pursue abstraction in his art, the tumultuous 1960s dawned. Breaking away from the historically/culturally entrenched art practices of the 1950s, when Zainul Abedin and Quamrul Hassan, along with other modern pioneers, were engaged in artistic creation that aspired to intersect Bengali identity with modern-day expressivity, Kibria chose to draw a new line on the horizon, showing only faint signs of location and lived experience. After 45 years of teaching Kibria was made Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, in 2008. He received the Ekushey Padak (1983), the Independence Award (1999) and the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Honor award (2002), among many honors and awards.

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