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.
Tate Modern’s 2013 retrospective of El-Salahi’s work was the Museum's first exhibition dedicated to Africa Modernism. 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
current exhibitions
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AFRICAN MODERNISM IN AMERICA, 1947-1967
Organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries Curators: Perrin Lathrop, Nikoo Paydar, and Jamaal Sheats
past exhibitions
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The Milk of Dreams @ The 59th Venice Biennale
Curated by Cecilia Alemani
Ibrahim El-Salahi Salah Elmur Lakwena Maciver Zak Ové
1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Johnny Abrahams Stephen Chambers Ibrahim El-Salahi Salah Elmur Jordy Kerwick Lakwena Maciver
The Armory Show, New York
Booth # 226 | Galleries section
Ibrahim El-Salahi Jordy Kerwick Lakwena Maciver Erin Lawlor Zak Ové Justin Williams Bram Bogart
Masterpiece
Ibrahim El-Salahi Lakwena Maciver Zak Ové
Black Bold British
Curated by Aindrea Emelife
Spiller + Cameron Salah Elmur Ibrahim El-Salahi Jordy Kerwick Lakwena Maciver Justin Williams Zak Ové
Spiller + Cameron Stephen Chambers Ibrahim El-Salahi Justin Williams Bram Bogart
Eye of the Collector
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UBUNTU
Five Rooms from the Harry David Collection - Featuring a work by Ibrahim El-Salahi
Johnny Abrahams Stephen Chambers Daniel Crews-Chubb Marcus Harvey Ibrahim El-Salahi Jamaal Peterman Duncan MacAskill Oliver Marsden Spiller + Cameron Bram Bogart
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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Pain Relief
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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
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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
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
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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?
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'Mosque' 1964 @ Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mosque, 1964 on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017
