The 3-day exhibition of selected paintings of Hamidur Rahman (1928-1988) marked the award of the Hamidur Rahman Puraskar 2007 to artist Monirul Islam.
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 at the MacDonald Cartier Polytechnic in Montreal, Canada. He is responsible for the design of the 1952 Language Movement Martyrs Memorial in Dhaka. Notable among his awards are the National Exhibition of Bangladeshi Painters (1972), First prize at the 5th Tehran Biennale, Commonwealth Painters Association Best Award, First Prize at the National Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture in Rawalpindi (1962), President’s Award for Pride of Performance in Painting (1970) and the Ekushey Padak (1980).

Date: 12.07.2007 – 15.07.2007
Venue: Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts