Biography
Mahamudul Hasan is a visual artist whose practice moves between painting, installation, print-based processes, and research-driven multimedia work. Trained in drawing and painting, his work has evolved into a multidisciplinary inquiry that connects personal experience with broader social and cultural realities.
He completed his BFA in Drawing and Painting from Khulna University, Bangladesh, where he ranked second in his cohort, and later earned an MFA in Painting from Rabindra Bharati University, India, as a recipient of a full ICCR scholarship. While grounded in traditional painting, Hasan’s practice extends into digital media, sculptural elements, archival approaches, and spatial installations, reflecting his interest in how material processes can hold layered narratives.
Hasan’s work explores identity, migration, memory, displacement, and urban transformation. His visual language develops through layering, erasure, repetition, and restrained imagery, allowing surfaces to carry traces of time, pressure, and lived experience. Rather than direct illustration, he approaches painting and mixed media as spaces where absence, fragmentation, and gesture convey emotional and historical depth.
A significant part of his professional development includes his role as Sector Specialist and Creative Director in a GCRF-funded research collaboration between the University of Glasgow and Khulna University. In this role, he worked with international researchers to translate issues such as health inequity, education, climate vulnerability, and human mobility into visual, exhibition-based, and spatial forms. This experience strengthened his commitment to art as a bridge between research, public engagement, and lived experience.
His practice treats painting and multidisciplinary processes as acts of accumulation, memory, and resilience, where material surfaces become sites of reflection and dialogue. Hasan positions painting in conversation with contemporary social contexts and research methodologies, seeking forms that are both materially sensitive and conceptually grounded.
A W A R D & G R A N T S
2018: Indian Govt. Scholarship (ICCR) to pursue MFA Rabindra
Bharati University by ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Relation)
2015: Media Best Award, 3rd Annual Art Exhibition. Institute of
Fine Arts, Khulna University.
2014: Shekh Rasel Award, Bangabandhu o Bangladesh, Art
Exhibition, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi
2014: 3rd Award, Time in frame–II, Bangladesh Shilpakala
academy, Dhaka
2013: Class Best Award, 2nd Annual Art Exhibition. Institute of
Fine Arts, Khulna University.
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015: Merit Scholarship, Painting
Discipline, Khulna University.
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N
2020: Display of MFA 3rdsemester Paintings, RBU.
2019: Display of MFA 2Stsemester Paintings, RBU.
2019: Display of MFA 1Stsemester Paintings, RBU
2012: Untitled, Solo exhibition, Chobiradda, Khulna University
I N T E R N A T I O N A L G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N
2023: International Painting Plein Air Valadi Buss 2023, Balvi, Latvia
2019: Students Annual Exhibition, The Faculty of Visual Arts,
Rabindra Bharati University, India.
2018: From Mohandas to Mahatma, Painting Exhibition, Indian
Museum, Kolkata, Ministry of Culture Government of India.
2018: Poverty Aquaculture & Life, Great Hall, Swansea University, UK.
2018: Poverty Aquaculture & Life, Taliesin art Centre, Swansea, UK.
2018: Poverty Aquaculture & Life, Waterfront Museum, Swansea,UK.
2016: Imago Mundi Art Exhibition, Imago Mundi Art Gallery, Italy.
2016: Asian Art Biennale Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Bangladesh.
2015: Beautiful Bangladesh and China Young Artist Art Competition, National Art Gallery, Dhaka.
2013: Freedom of thoughts Japan, Bangladesh Contemporary Art
Festival KAHAL at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, National Art Gallery, Dhaka
N A T I O N A L G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N
2022: Urban Issues of Dhaka: an artistic gaze, alliance franchise gallery, Dhaka
2017: Taranga galan, Group Art Exhibition, Khulna University.
2016: 21st Berger Young Painter’s Art Competition and Exhibition, Gallery, Chitrak, Dhaka.
2016: 20th Young Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2015: 21st National Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Dhaka,
2015, 2013, 2012, 2007, 2007: Annual Art Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, Khulna University.
2014: Bangabandhu Art Exhibition. Zainul Art Gallery, Dhaka University.
2014: Bangabandhu o Bangladesh Art Exhibition, Rajshahi University, Rajshahi.
2014: Time in frame in your eyes – II, National Art Gallery, Dhaka.
2014, 2013: 18th &19th Berger Young Painter’s Art Competition and Exhibition, Gallery Chitrak, Dhaka.
2012: Beautiful Bangladesh hand China, Art Competition and Exhibition. China, Bangladesh Friend ship Center, Dhaka.