(b. 1966, Omdurman, Sudan)
Abushariaa Ahmed is a contemporary painter living and working in Khartoum, Sudan. He is widely recognized for his vibrant ink and pigment works created on paper, wood, and natural surfaces. Through expressive color and form, Ahmed explores questions of Sudanese identity within the context of the nation’s complex colonial and post-independence history.
Ahmed graduated from the School of Fine Art at Sudan University’s College of Fine & Applied Arts in 1990 and briefly worked as a graphic designer in advertising before fully committing to his artistic practice. In 1993, he established himself as an artist aligned with the Khartoum School, a modernist movement founded in the 1960s that sought to define individual and national identity through a distinctive visual language.
A member of the Sudanese Artists Association, the Drawing Society, and the South African Society of Artists, Ahmed’s artistic journey has taken him across Africa and beyond. After leaving Sudan in the mid-1990s, he lived and worked in Nairobi, Cologne, and Kampala before returning to Khartoum in 2000. His work has been shown widely through exhibitions and workshops across Sudan, East and Southern Africa, China, South Korea, and Europe, reflecting his enduring engagement with global artistic exchange.