Hamiduzzaman Khan

Hamiduzzaman Khan
Born	1946 (age 70–71) Kishoreganj district, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	University of Dhaka Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
Occupation	Sculptor
Awards	Ekushey Padak

Hamiduzzaman Khan (born c. 1946) is a Bangladeshi sculptor.

Khan was born in 1946 in Kishoreganj district. In 1967 he earned BFA degree from Bangladesh College of Arts and Crafts (presently Faculty of Fine Arts) from University of Dhaka. Khan studied sculpture in several cities of Europe in 1969, in Baroda from 1974 to 1976, and completed an internship in America in 1982 to 1983. He completed a Master of Fine Arts from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in 1976.

The famine of Bangla in 1943 had brought out the great artist in Zainal Abedin where the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 had inspired several youngBangaless to pick up the war theme and achieve significant success as creative personalities. Of them, Hamiduzzaman Khan established himself in sculpture. Incidentally Zainul Abedin (1914-1976), the pioneer of modern art in Bangladesh and Hamiduzzaman both came from Kishoreganj. Zainul Abedin was not only a great artist, but also a great organizer of the art movement in the country. In his struggle to establish the institute of Fine Art in Dhaka he had to sacrifice much of his creative time and energy, while Hamiduzzaman and his contemporaries had the field of sculptural art at some stage of institutional development through the efforts of the early pioneers like Novera Ahmed (b. 1930) and Abdur Razzaque (b. 1932). Hamid has chosen the path of individual creative pursuit, relentless and untiring as he is. He is a diminutive person, with a soft kind and good looking face. He speaks the typical Kishoreganj dialect, somewhat like Zainul, but not quite absorbing like the great master and yet very pleasant and likeable.

For his age, he is now 58, he looks rather young and his working habits are that of a much younger person. At this age in Bangladesh a government officer normally goes on retirement, while Hamid seems to be beginning a new phase of vigorous creative activity. His large professional studio, at the institute where he teaches, at the location of commissioned buildings or campuses, or even in travel. He is not particularly strong physically, but he scenes to have an enormous mental strength which keeps him going. Sculpture, indeed, demands tremendous energy, both physical and mental. Hamiduzzaman’s mental strength has also emboldened him physically. The fact that his wife, Ivy, is also a sculptor and a compassionate friend is to his great advantage. There is a synergic enthusiasm in both of them in journey to greater goals, towards building significant sculptural forms. Hamid has already been recognized as one of our few major modern sculptors and has earned a genuinely international stature. Indeed, he is one of the best known sculptors at home. He is definitely the most visible, through his outdoor commissioned works. He is also a printer who excels in water color and enjoys drawing as a medium to sharpen his dexterity in forms. He also tries his hand at print making. But it is as a sculptor that he himself likes to be introduced and rightly so.

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