Rezaun Nabi

Rezaun Nabi

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rezaun Nabi (b. 1956, Dhaka) is a distinguished Bangladeshi painter and graphic designer whose nearly 40-year career blends Western abstraction and Oriental sensibility

Achievements

  • Nabi has held numerous solo exhibitions—e.g., at Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts (2010), Alliance Française (1999), and internationally in Sydney (1998) and the Netherlands (1988)—and participated in biennials and group shows across Asia, Europe, Australia, North America, and the Middle East . His work has been recognized with awards such as the Best Prize in Experimental Oil Painting (1982), the Tourism Poster First Prize (1986), second place at the International Miniature Art Exhibition in Dhaka (1998), and a Tokyo Metropolitan Museum’s AJAC certificate
BFA (1980) and MFA (1983) from Dhaka University’
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum’s AJAC certificate
(2004). Nabi’s paintings—characterized by flowing horizontal compositions in acrylic, pastel, and watercolor—evoke Bangladesh’s riverscapes, skies, and nature in a poetic, abstraction-infused style.
Rezaun Nabi

Rezaun Nabi (b. 1956, Dhaka) is a distinguished Bangladeshi painter and graphic designer whose nearly 40-year career blends Western abstraction and Oriental sensibility

News

Art Exhibition Begins At Ga llery Cosmos
August 15, 2025

Gallery Cosmos has arranged a two-week-long solo art exhibition by artist Rezaun Nabi titled ‘METAMORPHIC - Naturally Transformed’. The exhibition was inaugurated by Nasrul Hamid, State Minister, Ministry of Power, Energy & Mineral Resources with eminent artist Rafiqun Nabi, Khondoker Jamil Uddin, Director of Dhaka Bank and Shanta Group and Faruque Hassan, Senior Vice-President, BGMEA in attendance on October 14, 2016 at Gallery Cosmos.

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Artworks

Mindscape

Tk 100,000

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Past Works

Nabi’s visual language fuses raw figuration with spiritual iconography. He often depicts anonymous bodies—migrant workers, women, laborers—rendered with emotional weight and quiet dignity. His palette is earthy, his strokes deliberate, his symbolism powerful.

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