About the artist
selected works
Flamenco Dancers
Mosque
Fatima
They Always Appear
Untitled
They Always Appear
The Inevitable
Reborn Sounds of Childhood Dreams III
The Tree
The Tree
The Tree
Oxford Tree
The Tree
In the Present II
The Opening of Khartoum
Head II
Alphabet No.4
The Tree
Meditation Tree
Meditation Tree
current exhibitions
21 October 2019 – 21 December 2020
Ibrahim El-Salahi
War Within, War Without
MoMA Collection 1940s–1970s
past exhibitions
7 June – 11 August 2019
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Pain Relief
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY
19 September – 10 November 2018
Ibrahim El-Salahi
By His Will We Teach Birds How To Fly Ibrahim El-Salahi in Black and White
Curated by Salah Hassan and Toby Clarke
Vigo Gallery
27 June – 3 July 2019
Johnny Abrahams Ibrahim El-Salahi Semiha Berksoy Bram Bogart Zak Ové Masaaki Yamada
Masterpiece
4 May – 22 September 2019
Ibrahim El-Salahi
KUBATANA: An Exhibition with Contemporary African artists
Curated by Kristin Hjellegjerde
Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium
4 – 7 October 2018
Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi Hassan Hajjaj Zak Ové Chris Ofili
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Somerset House, London
28 September – 25 November 2018
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School
Salon | Saatchi Gallery
20 June – 23 August 2018
Daniel Crews-Chubb Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi Marcus Harvey Duncan MacAskill
Tree
Vigo Gallery
3 – 6 May 2018
Derrick Adams Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Pioneer Works
23 November 2017 – 1 March 2018
Ibrahim El-Salahi
By His Will We Teach Birds How to Fly
Ibrahim El-Salahi in Black and White
19 November 2016 – 14 January 2017
Ibrahim El-Salahi
The Khartoum School
The Making of the Modern Art Movement in Sudan (1945 - present)
28 June – 17 August 2016
Daniel Crews-Chubb Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi Marcus Harvey Henry Krokatsis James Capper Keith Coventry Jason Martin
Continuum
Summer Show
Vigo Gallery
selected press/news
23 October 2019
Ibrahim El-Salahi
MoMA Remixed: The Artists Coming to the Fore in the New Look Gallery
16 October 2019
Ibrahim El-Salahi
Budge up, great white males! MoMA goes global with an explosive $450m rehang
24 March 2019
Ibrahim El-Salahi
A slice of life in a Sudanese prison
On the recently issued reproduction of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook
17 May 2018
Ibrahim El-Salahi
The Art of Africa
Katherine Macalister talks to Lena Fritsch about famous local Ibrahim El-Salahi
The Oxford Times Weekend
A Sudanese Artist in Oxford
18 April – 2 September 2018
Kamel Lazaar Foundation: seeds of change.
Ahead of the 1-54 fair, we meet the father-daughter team promoting African and Middle Eastern art.
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
4 – 7 October 2018
8 May 2018
Ibrahim El-Salahi
The calligraphic lines of Ibrahim El-Salahi
A Sudanese Artist in Oxford
18 April – 2 September 2018
16 August 2017
Ibrahim El-Salahi
What’s the best work of art you saw this summer?
18 well-traveled experts weigh in
Ibrahim El-Salahi
The Museum of Modern Art is showing how artists can respond confidently to Trump
Washington Post
Ibrahim El-Salahi
at MoMA
MoMA Protests Trump Entry Ban by Rehanging Work by Artists from Muslim Nations
New York TImes
video
Ibrahim El-Salahi
BBC Radio 4: An Alternative History of Art
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, continues the BBC Radio series exploring overlooked artists from the 20th century. Art history has been written from a white, Western, male perspective. What would an alternative canon look like?
Ibrahim El-Salahi
'Mosque' 1964 @ Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mosque, 1964 on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017
