Born in Malda in 1939. Mansoor Rahi is a famous Pakistani Artist born in West Bengal. Mansoor Rahi is the leading abstractionist painter of Pakistan and his teaching and influence have led to the emergence of a larger number of prominent artists than any other teacher artist.

When he came to Karachi in 1963, soon after graduating from the Arts College at Dhaka, he was still doing water color painting in a light impressionist style. . Earlier, he had completed his matriculation in Dhaka from Raj Shahi School. Later on he moved to Karachi in 1964 and made it his home till 1983.

Mansoor Rahi Paintings

Mansoor rahi had the privilege of having two eminent art teachers, Mohammed Kibria, a noted artist, and Abdul Razaq. However Zainul Abedin who was the principle of the institute remained a lifelong inspiration to Mansoor rahi and impacted his painting in the following years. Mansoor paints with the same passion as he did when he surfaced on the art scene of what was then West Pakistan in the late 1960s.