Mohammad Kibria, a famous Bangladeshi artist was born in 1929 at Birbhum, Bengal Presidency, British India. He graduated from the Government School of Art at the University of Calcutta in 1950. In 1951, he came to Dhaka and started his career as an art teacher at the Nawabpur High School. In 1954, prompted by his teacher and mentor Zainul Abedin, Kibria joined the then Government College of Arts and Crafts and eventually became a Faculty member of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka). He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts from 1959 until 1962. He was exposed to the international museums where he got the chance to watch works of the modern masters and received training under world-famous contemporary abstractionists. Kibria died of old-age complications at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka on 7 June 2011 at the age of 82.