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Abu Taher

Present Position
Freelance Artist

Born in 1936 at Dhaka ,Bangladesh

Education

1963 : BFA, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University

Awards

1965 : 'Honourable Mention' at the all Pakistan National Art Exhibition, Pakistan Arts Council, Dhaka.
1973 : 'Silver Jubilee Award' at the Silver Jubilee Art Exhibition of Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts, Dhaka
1990 : 'Honourable Mention' at the 9th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka.
1994 : 'Ekushe Padak' (the highest civilian award for contribution in the field of art and culture)


Solo Exhibitions


1966 : Dhaka [organised by Congress for Cultural Freedom, Pakistan]
1974 : Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts Gallery, Dhaka
1978 : Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts Gallery, Dhaka
1983 : Zainul Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka
1986 : 25 Years Work, Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts Gallery Dhaka
1980 : Zainul Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka
1993 : National Museum Gallery, Dhaka
2000 : Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
2004 : Bangladesh High Commission, Canberra, Australia
2005 : Sydney, Australia
2005 : Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka

Group Exhibition

1964 : Prints Show, Organized by Arts Ensemble Galleries, Dhaka
1965 : All Pakistan National Art Exhibition, Dhaka
1966 : Exhibition of Pakistani Paintings, Commonwealth Institute, London Abstract Paintings of East Pakistan sponsored by the German Cultural Institute, Dhaka and Chittagong, 5th Tehran Biennale, Iran
1970 : Expo 70 Tokyo, Japan
1973 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai, India Silver Jubilee Art Exhibition of Bangladesh College of Arts & Crafts, Dhaka
1978 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Bonn and Berlin, Germany
1980 : Festival: Asian Art Show, Fukuoka, Japan
1983 : 5th Triennale India, New Delhi
1985 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Kualalampur, Malaysia
1990 : SAARC Paintings Exhibition at Simla and Delhi, India
1995 : Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Moscow, Russian Federation
1998 : Thirty Painters from Bangladesh, Osaka, Japan; Epar-Bangla Opar-Bangla Exhibition and Workshop, Kolkata, India; Selected Artists of the Fifties, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka; Contemporary Art of Bangladesh, Sudo Art Museum, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
1999 : Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Saju Art Gallery, Dhaka; Contemporary Paintings from Bangladesh, Gallery Hill Gate, Kyoto, Japan; Paintings from Bangladesh, Nagoya, Japan; Fifty Years of Bangladesh Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka University; Exhibition of the works of Contemporary Bengali Artists, Shilpakala Academy [organised by Bengal Foundation]
2003 : Exhibition of the works of the Contemporary Asian Art Workshop 2002, Shilpakala Academy Gallery, Dhaka [organised by Bengal Foundation and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy]
1975-05 : 1st to 16th National Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1981-04 : 1st to 11th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Dhaka

Honor

Workshop and Seminer

1989 : SAARC Painters Workshop, Simla, India
1994 : International seminar of 8th Triennle, India, organised by Lalit kala Acdemy, New Delhi, India
1995 : Water Colour Workshop in the Sundarbans, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1998 : Water Colour Workshop, organised by Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka
1998 : Dui-Banglar Artists Workshop, Sponsored by Kolkata Nandanik, Kolkata, India
1999 : Workshop of Contemporary Bengali Artists, organised by Bengal Foundation, Dhaka
2002 : Contemporary Asian Art Workshop 2002, Dhaka [organised by Bengal Foundation and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy]

Member Jury Committee

1994 : 10th Young Artists Art Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1997 : Khulna Division Paintings Exhibition, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1998 : 12th Young Artists Art Exhibition at Chittagong, organised by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
2004 : International Children's Art Biennale, Bangladesh Shishu Academy, Dhaka

Major Collections

National Art Gallery, Dhaka; Bangladesh National Museum, Dhaka; Nordness Gallery, New York; Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Banga Bhaban and Ganobhaban, Dhaka; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh; Sangsad Bhaban, Bangladesh; Atomic Energy Commission, Dhaka; Kolkata; Nandanik, Calcutta, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Gallery Sambala, Kopenhagen; Bengal Foundation Dhaka and many other individual and institutional collections at home & abroad.

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Activities

2012

Solo Exhibition

Sumana Akter
Nasima Khan

Group Exhibition

Amity of Our's
Kibria Printmaking
Fair, 2012


Photography

Sayeed Siddiqui Rumi
Babu Ahmed

Seminar and other
Programs


Book Drive


2011

Solo Exhibition

Farhana Islam
Sanjib Datta
Ali Akbar
Dravid Saikot
Mustapha Khalid Palash
Minufar Nasrin

Naimul Bari
Mohammad Eunus
Mohammad Salim
Anwar Hossain

Group Exhibition

Crossover, 2011
Angina
Express Yourself
The Country of Rising Sadness
Group Painting Exhibition
Master and Apprentices
Paintings by Childrens
Rejoice
Jago Antore Momo

Workshop

Rickshaw Painters

Photography

Anwar Hossain
Plays in Light
Globalization: A Bipolar Story
Nafis Ahmed Nadvi

Seminar and other
Programs


Liberation War
Documentary Festival

Speech-Presentation
Bonsai Exhibition
K G Subramanyum

2010

Solo Exhibition

Jamal Ahmed
Monica Jahan Bose
Ferdousi Priyabhashini
Wakilur Rahman
Showpon Choudhury

Group Exhibition

Tree & Roots
Drawing Exhibition

Workshop

101 Art Camp
15 August 2010
Balu Chaya

Performance

Seiji Shimoda

Seminar

 

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