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KAMALA IBRAHIM ISHAG

KAMALA IBRAHIM ISHAG

b. 1939, Sudan
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Kamala Ibrahim Ishag Biography

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag (born 1939, Omdurman, Sudan; lives in Khartoum) was among the first women artists to graduate from the College of Fine Arts in Khartoum in 1963. She went on to do postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art, London (1964-66), after which she returned to teach, and head up the painting department, at the College of Fine Arts, Khartoum, for three decades up to the early 1990s.

In 2019 she received the Principal Prince Claus Award, and her exhibition Women in Crystal Cubes showed at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, through May 2020. An exhibition of the same title showed at the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2016-17.

Notable group exhibitions include The Short Century (2001-02); Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogue of the Present, which toured the UK (1999-2000); Towards a Society for All Ages: World Artists at the Millennium, United Nations head- quarters, New York (1999); and S_even Stories About Modern Art in Africa_, Whitechapel Gallery, London (1995). She is included in the second Lahore Biennale (2020, postponed).

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Group Exhibition Twilight Is a Place Of Promise Esther Schipper 29 June–24 August 2024
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