Cuadro

“When you take solitary walks among the rocks on bare mountains, collecting the dry branches that have fallen from small trees, following traces of desert animals, sensing the humming of insects … it is at that moment that you faintly hear the murmur of the city as a fading echo in your mind. You begin to fear that you have stepped on a rock or a blade of grass that has blocked the door of an insect’s home and disturbed a creature with your intrusion on his path. At this moment you are overcome with the feeling of being at one with nature, so you begin to shed your layers, piece by piece, and commence with creating an artwork.”  

- Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim

Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim was born in 1962 in Khorfakkan, UAE. He carries a degree in Psychology from Al Ain University, and completed a residency at Le Consortium Art Centre in Dijon, France.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including the Sharjah Biennial in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2007, the Sharjah Art Museum in 1996 and 2005, the Dhaka Biennial in 1993 and 2002, Emirates Fine Art Society exhibition in Moscow in 1990, Holland’s Sittard Art Center in 1995, the Cairo Biennial in 1998, the Institut du Monde Arabe in 1998, the Havana Biennial in 2000,  Germany’s Ludwig Forum in 2002, the Kunst museum Bonn in 2005, and the Venice Biennale in 2009.

Ibrahim received the First Prize for Sculpture at the Sharjah Biennial in 1999 and 2001. His work is in significant collections, including Qatar’s Arab Museum of Modern Art, the Sharjah Art Museum and Holland’s Sittard Art Center.