About the artist
Born in Sudan in 1930, Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most important living African artists and a key figure in the development of African Modernism.
El-Salahi grew up in Omdurman, Sudan and studied at the Slade School in London. On his return to Sudan in 1957, he established a new visual vocabulary, which arose from his own pioneering integration of Sudanese, Islamic, African, Arab and Western artistic traditions.
In 2013, Ibrahim El-Salahi became the first African artist to be given a full retrospective at Tate Modern. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; The British Museum, London; Tate Modern, London; The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Newark Museum, Newark; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; The National Gallery, Berlin and many others.
selected works
forthcoming exhibitions
Johnny Abrahams Stephen Chambers Daniel Crews-Chubb Ibrahim El-Salahi Marcus Harvey Jamaal Peterman Duncan MacAskill Oliver Marsden Spiller + Cameron Bram Bogart
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War Within, War Without
MoMA Collection 1940s–1970s
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Transcontinental Modernism: Jacob Lawrence & The Artists of Black Orpheus
past exhibitions
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Pain Relief
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By His Will We Teach Birds How To Fly Ibrahim El-Salahi in Black and White
Curated by Salah Hassan and Toby Clarke
Johnny Abrahams Kadar Brock Stephen Chambers Ibrahim El-Salahi Jamaal Peterman
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Seed Drawings - Pain Relief
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Silkscreen paintings - Pain Relief
Johnny Abrahams Ibrahim El-Salahi Semiha Berksoy Bram Bogart Zak Ové Masaaki Yamada
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KUBATANA: An Exhibition with Contemporary African artists
Curated by Kristin Hjellegjerde
Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi Hassan Hajjaj Chris Ofili Zak Ové
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
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Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School
Daniel Crews-Chubb Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi Marcus Harvey Duncan MacAskill
Tree
Derrick Adams Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Ibrahim El-Salahi
By His Will We Teach Birds How to Fly
Ibrahim El-Salahi in Black and White
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The Khartoum School
The Making of the Modern Art Movement in Sudan (1945 - present)
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London
Ibrahim El-Salahi Zak Ové
Daniel Crews-Chubb Leonardo Drew Ibrahim El-Salahi Marcus Harvey Henry Krokatsis James Capper Keith Coventry Jason Martin
Continuum
Summer Show
selected press/news
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SUITED Magazine: Bridging the Divide
Ibrahim El-Salahi finds the Commonality in Human Experiance, Laying it Bare in Black and White.
By Marianna Nannarone
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at MoMA
video
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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
