Mohammad Kibria (c. 1929 – 7 June 2011) was a Bangladeshi artist. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1983 and Independence Day Award in 1999 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Kibria graduated from the Government School of Art at the University of Calcutta in 1950. In 1951, he came to Dhaka where he started his career as an art teacher at the Nawabpur High School. Kibria moved to Dhaka in 1951 and started his career as a college teacher at Nawabpur High School. In 1954, prompted by his scholastic and mentor Zainul Abedin, Kibria united the later Government College of Arts and Crafts (now Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka) as a lecturer. In the in advance days of his career, however, Kibria’s influence upon art was shifted from the neo-Bengal School to the European masters including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse as skillfully to the emerging style of art such as impressionism, post-impressionism and expressionism.
Kibria studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1959 until 1962. He was exposed to the international museums where he got the inadvertent to watch works of the avant-garde masters and expected training below world-famous contemporary abstractionists.
Kibria died of old-age complications at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka on 7 June 2011 at the age of 82.
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