Najib Tareque

In 2015, Tareque took an initiative to create an artists hub and launched a gallery Studio 6/6 at Mohammedpur, Dhaka, when the co-founder was his daughter Taiara Farhana Tareque. After initial launch of the studio has hosted several exhibitions, workshops, and events featuring artists from different talents, as musicians, painters, writers etc.

Online-based conceptual virtual art project Art Makes Us Human starts since July 2015 through the social media Instagram. Later in May 2016, a solo exhibition of the project was organized in the Studio 6/6 Gallery located in Dhaka. It was first physical exhibition of its kind in the country, with around 15 physical prints of digital paintings. As a part of the project, Tareque composed his old and new combination of decoration, using many of his previously drawn illustrations for various books, newspapers and magazines. The colourful artworks mostly using bold strokes, striking colours and enthralling patterns to create human faces and figures, birds and different geometric forms. Since its online launching nearly more than 1500 artworks are published under the project, in various social media including Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Facebook.

In 2009, he participated in the group exhibition held in Mumbai, India. He got acquainted with the illustration of book covers and literary magazines, dissiging of clothing, etc. In Bangladesh, he tried to turn the traditional illustrations of the book covers into modern art.

In April 2007, a joint exhibition of this couple was organized in Dhaka at their own art gallery named Studio 6/6 under the heading "Nirman" ("Construction").

Tareque worked as a chief artist for such national newspapers, including Daily Jugantor from 1999 to 2001 and Daily Janakantha from 2002 to 2004. He also worked with Ekushey Television from 2001 to 2003. From 2004 to 2011, he was also appointed as a brand marketing consultant of the Standard Chartered Bank Limited in Dhaka. Besides, he has been appointed as the Information Technology Secretary of the Bangladesh Charushilpi Sangsad.

In 1998 he was awarded by the Forest Department of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

Apart from composing art, Tareque has studied literature; wrote verse, essay, discussion, etc. In 1996, he wrote Kobitar Chitrayon Proshonge about painting and literature, published under the Young Writer' Project of Bangla Academy. He also published two volume of drawings books for the children.

In 1994, two of his solo exhibitions were organized. "Joy Manabata" is his first solo exhibition which was held in May 1994 with Alliance Française in Dhaka. Most of the 42 paintings of the exhibition were the subject matter of the human. Where the human form has been depicted in the form of Durga, Nomad, Ravana, Ullas, etc. Some paintings of Tareque, who believe in the Evolutio theory, are found in the resemblance of the non-human face with the human body, through which he has expressed his desire to illustrate the ugly image of the human.

Najib married Bangladeshi painter Farhana Afroz. They have a daughter Taiara Farhana Tareque (born 1994), she is also a young artist, and a son Farhand Abu Tamjiad.

His early education began in the village's school. After completing school exam from Rajshahi Collegiate School in 1986, he studied Dinajpur Government College. In 1987, he admitted studying Printmaking in Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Dhaka. He was graduated in 1994 and after finished post graduation in 2000 from the faculty. While being a student, he was merely acting in the movement against anti-autocracy movement, and for the Nirmul Committee.

Najib Tareque, (born September 5, 1970, as Abu Najib Mohammed Tareque) is a Bengali artist, printmaker and writer based on Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is best known for her New media artworks and one of the pioneers of online art galleries in Bangladesh. Tareque was the founding member of Jolrong, one of the first online art galleries in South Asia. Since 1987, he has been part of various group and solo exhibitions both in the country and abroad. He participates more than twenty individual and joint exhibitions in the country and abroad.

Abu Najib Mohammad Tareque was born on 5 September 1970, in Borogur Gola, Dinajpur, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). His father was Tamizuddin and mother Nujratun Nisa. Tareque is the fifth among seven siblings. By his father's career, his childhood and early life span in Thakurgaon, Rajshahi and in Dinajpur district.