Abushariaa Ahmed
Sudan

Abushariaa Ahmed was born in 1966 in Omdurman, Sudan. He graduated in 1990 from Sudan University’s College of Fine & Applied Arts.
Abushariaa’s style is influenced by the pioneers of Sudan’s contemporary art scene, including Ibrahim el Salahi, Professor Shipprain and Rashid Diab. In the 1960s their Khartoum School was recognised as an emergent modernist movement, known for its Sudanawiyya style – a synthesis of Western influences and other traditions that captures Sudan’s diversity.
Abushariaa left the Sudan in the mid-90s and spent some years in Kenya as an artist in residence at the Paa ya Paa Arts Centre in Nairobi. He later lived for a short period in Cologne, Germany, before settling in Kampala, Uganda, in 2000, where he worked as a freelance artist.
 After many years in the diaspora, Abushariaa went recently back to Khartoum.
His semi-abstract, colourful, mixed-media artwork and his distinctive ink drawings are rich with ornamental and patterned symbols of his Nubian culture and occasionally Arabic calligraphy.
Abushariaa has exhibited extensively in East Africa and in Canada, the US, Germany, Denmark, Monaco and the UK. His artwork is held in many private and public collections all over the world – in the African Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, and in the collection of the World Bank in Washington DC, USA amongst others.
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper| 32cm x 24cm - 1997 
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                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 32cm x 24cm - 1997 -
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                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 24cm x 32cm  - 1997 
CODE: ABU3
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 32cm x 24cm   - 1997
CODE: ABU4
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 48cm x 36cm  - 1997
CODE: ABU10
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 51cm x 36cm  - 1997
CODE: ABU13
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 51cm x 36cm  - 1997
CODE: ABU14
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 32cm x 24cm  - 1997
CODE: ABU16
 
                Untitled | Ink on Paper | 40cm x 30cm  - 1996
CODE: ABU24
 
                Untitled | Ink on Paper | 40cm x 30cm  - 1996
CODE: ABU25
 
                Untitled | Ink on Paper | 62cm x 55cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU75
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Wood | (30cm x 30cm )x4 - 2003
CODE: ABU76,77,78,79
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 30cm x 40cm  - 1993
CODE: ABU73
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 24cm x 24cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU28
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 50cm x 40cm  - 1993
CODE: ABU74
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 24cm x 24cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU27
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper| 24cm x 24cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU30B
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 24cm x 24cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU30A
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 24cm x 24cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU29
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 24cm x 24cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU31
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 55cm x 60cm  - 2011
CODE: ABU71
 
                Untitled | Ink on Canvas | 27cm x 27cm  - 2001
CODE: ABU43
 
                Untitled | Ink on Canvas | 27cm x 27cm  - 2001
CODE: ABU40
 
                Untitled | Ink on Canvas | 27cm x 27cm  - 2001
CODE: ABU39
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 40cm x 40cm  - 2007
CODE: ABU61
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 98cm x 67cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU34
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 98cm x 67cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU35
 
                Untitled | Collage on Paper | 74cm x 54cm  - 2003
CODE: ABU45
 
                Untitled | Collage on Paper | 74cm x 54cm  - 2003
CODE: ABU46
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 74cm x 54cm  - 2004
CODE: ABU50
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper | 74cm x 54cm  - 2003
CODE: ABU51
 
                Untitled | Oil on Canvas | 85cm x 100cm  - 2006
CODE: ABU55
 
                Untitled | Collage on Paper | 77cm x 56cm  - 2004
CODE: ABU53
 
                Untitled | Collage on Paper | 77cm x 56cm  - 2004
CODE: ABU52
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper| 57cm x 44cm  - 2006
CODE: ABU59
 
                Darfur Series | Oil on Canvas | 120cm x 120cm  - 2008
CODE: ABU69
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media Paper | 45cm x 60cm  - 1997
CODE: ABU23
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media Paper  | 40cm x 32cm  - 1994
CODE: ABU6
 
                 Untitled | Mixed Media Paper  | 40cm x 30cm  - 1995
CODE: ABU7
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media on Paper|
 
                Untitled | Mixed Media Paper  | 98cm x 67cm  - 1998
CODE: ABU36
 
                Untitled |  Acrylic on Canvas | (30 x 30 cm) x 4  - ca. 2000
CODE: ABU80,81,82,83
