[1][2] Kibria graduated from the Government School of Art at the University of Calcutta in 1950.

In 1951, he came to Dhaka where he started his career as an art teacher at the Nawabpur High School.

[3] In the early days of his career, however, Kibria's influence on art was shifted from the neo-Bengal School to the European masters including Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse as well to the emerging style of art such as impressionism, post-impressionism and expressionism.

[4] He was exposed to the international museums where he got the chance to watch works of the modern masters and received training under world-famous contemporary abstractionists.

Kibria died of old-age complications at LabAid Hospital in Dhaka on 7 June 2011 at the age of 82.