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Farida Zaman (born 1953) is a Bangladeshi artist and illustrator. She is the chairman and professor of the department of Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. In recognition of her contribution in art, the government of Bangladesh awarded her the country's second highest civilian award Ekushey Padak in 2020.

Early life

Zaman was born in 1953 in Chandpur of the then East Bengal in Pakistan (now Bangladesh). She graduated in fine arts from the Bangladesh College of Arts and Crafts (now Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka) in 1974 and received her post graduation degree in the same subject from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India in 1978. She obtained her PhD from India's Visva-Bharati University in 1995.

Solo exhibitions

• College of Art & Crafts, Dhaka, Bangladesh (1979)
• Institute of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh (1983)
• Divine Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh (1995)
• Chitrak Art Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2002)
• My Country-My Love Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2006)
• Rabindranath Thakur Centre, ICCR, Kolkata, India (2010)
• Bound to the Soil, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2013)
• For the Love of Country, Nalini Kanta Bhattasali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum (2019)

References

1. ^ "Dr Farida Zaman's solo exhibition opens tomorrow at BNM". The Daily Star. 5 December 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
2. "Dhaka Art Center, Farida Zaman". www.dhakaartcenter.org. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
3. "20 individuals, one organisation to receive Ekushey Padak 2020". The Daily Star. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
4. ^ "Farida Zaman". Bengal Foundation. Retrieved 6 February 2020.

v t e Ekushey Padak Winners 2020
Economics	Shamsul Alam
Research	Jahangir Alam Khan Saifur Rahman Nizami
Language and Literature	Nazmun Nesa Peyari Nuran Nabi Sikdar Aminul Haq
Language Movement	Aminul Islam Badsha (Posthumous)
Liberation War	A. A. M. Mesbahul Haq (Posthumous) Akhtar Sardar (Posthumous) Abdul Jabbar (Posthumous)
Education	Bikiran Prasad Barua
Fine Arts	S. M. Mohsin Golam Mostafa Khan Dalia Nausheen Farida Zaman Mita Haque Shankar Roy
Social Service	Sufi Mohammed Mizanur Rahman Sayeba Akhter
Journalism	Zafar Wazed

• 1953 births
• Living people
• People from Chandpur District
• University of Dhaka Faculty of Fine Arts alumni
• Academic staff of the University of Dhaka
• Visva-Bharati University alumni
• Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni
• Recipients of the Ekushey Padak
• 21st-century Bangladeshi women artists
• 21st-century Bangladeshi artists