Kazi Abdul Baset

Baset was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1935. In 1956, he completed his bachelor's in fine arts from the Government Art Institute (later known as the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka) in Dhaka. With a Fulbright Fellowship he received higher training in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago University during 1963-1964. He then joined the head of Drawing and Painting Department of the Government Art Institute. He retired from the institute in 1995 and was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1991 by the Government of Bangladesh.