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House 60, Road 7/A, Dhanmondi R/A,
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Monirul Islam
Present Position
Freelance artist residing in Spain
Born in 1943 at Chandpur, Bangladesh
Education
1966-69 : Teacher at Govt College of Art and Crafts, Bangladesh
1969-73 : Scholarship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under an exchange programme
1969 to date : Freelance artist residing in Madrid, Spain
Biennale and group exhibitions
6th International Biennial of Print, 1975, Krakow, Poland
FIAC 77, 78, Paris, France;
International Mail Art Exhibition, NOW DRAWING IS, Imabashi Gallery, Japan;
1st Biennial of European Graphic Art, Heidelberg, Germany;
8th International Triennial of Coloured Graphic Prints, Grenchen, Switzerland;
15th International Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil;
International Impact Art Festival, Municipal Museum of Kyoto, Japan;
World Print Four, Museum of Modern Art, California, USA;
1st International Exhibition Day Art, Budapest, Hungary;
ARCO 86, International Art Fair, Spain;
Asian Contemporary Graphics Biennial, Seoul, Korea;
SAGA 88, Grand Palais, Paris, France;
Estampa, Print Fair 150 Graphic Artist, Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain;
1st International Biennial 89, Bharat Bhaban, Bhopal, India;
VARNA 89, International Print Biennial, Bulgaria;
INTERGRAPHIC 90, Berlin, Germany;
Edition 3/92, Basel, Switzerland;
ARCO 93, 94, Gallery Estampa, Gallery BAT;
Art Festival, Asilah, Morocco
Individual exhibitions
1974 : Grupo 15, Madrid, Spain
1975 : Taksim Sanat Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
1980 : Kunsthalle Roelant, Amsterdam, Holland
1981, 89 : Sultan Gallery, Kuwait
1984 : Salon National des Galleries d'Art, Montreal, Canada Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, USA
1985 : Oxford Gallery, UK
1986 : Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, USA
1987 : The Art Society of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA
1988 : Galeria Lienzo y Papel, Sevilla, Spain
1989 : Gallery BAT, Madrid, Spain; Gallery Atir, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
1990 : Art Academy, Baroda University, India
1991 : Gallery Torculo, Madrid, Spain
1992, 98, 2003 : Gallery Tolmo, Toledo, Spain; Gallery Trinta, antiago de Compostela, Spain; Gallery Varron, Salamanca, Spain
1993 : Gallery Shilpangan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1993, 96, 2001 : Gallery Estampa, Madrid, Spain
1994 : Sala Garcia Castanion, Caja de Ahorres Municipal de Pamplona, Spain; Gallery Zazpi, Zarautz, Spain
1995 : Gallery Seiquer, Madrid, Spain; Gallery Amaste, Bilbao, Spain; Museum of Goya, Fuendetodos, Zaragoza, Spain
1996 : Gallery Thema, Valencia, Spain
1997 : Gallery Shilpangan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
1997 : Honour of the International Triennial of Cairo, Egypt
1999 : Gallery Rotas, Islamabad, Pakistan
2000 : Gallery Chawkandi, Karachi, Pakistan
2003 : FLECHA, Madrid, Spain
2004 : Art Fair of the Spanish Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid
2004 : Gallery Shilpangan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2005, 06 : Dionis Bennassar Gallery, Madrid
2007 : Gallery Nuevo Arte, Sevilla
2008 : Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh
National and International Awards
1972 : 5th International Exhibition of Prints, Ibizo, Spain
1974 : Carmen Arozamena Prize, Madrid, Spain
1977 : 12th International Graphics Biennial, Ljublana, Yugoslavia
1978, 82 : 4th International Graphics Biennial, Fredrikstad, Norway
1978 : 6th International Exhibition of Drawings, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
1983 : World Print Four, Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
1985 : 2nd International Exhibition of prints, Maximo Ramos, El Ferrol, Spain; 7th National Award, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy; 1st Prize in Graphic Art, Baghdad, Iraq
1987 : 4th International Exhibition of prints, Maximo Ramos, El Ferrol, Spain; 17th International Graphics Biennial, Ljublana, Yugoslavia
1993 : National Award of Spain Accesit, Calcografia Nacional , Spain
1997 : National Award of Spain, Calcografia Nacional,Spain
1999 : Ekushey Padak, highest national award of Bangladesh
2007 : National Award, Scholars of Bangladesh
International Jury Member
3rd International Exhibition of Prints, Maximo Ramos, El Ferrol, Spain; 2nd International Prints Triennial, Cairo, Egypt
1999 : 3rd International Triennial of Cairo, Egypt
2000 : Spanish International Prints Competition
2003 : 4th International Prints Triennial, Cairo, Egypt
Workshops conducted
1980-2008 Asilah, Morocco; Museum of Goya, Fuendetodos, Spain; NCA, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan; Baroda Art Academy, India; Bengal Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Bahrain-Asilah Arts and Culture Forum, Barcelona, Spain |
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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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