Rashid Diab
Sudanese painter and art historian / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rashid Diab (Arabic: راشد دياب, Wad Madani, Sudan, 1957) is a Sudanese modern painter, visual artist and art historian. Having obtained his first academic degree in Sudan, he earned further academic degrees in visual arts and art history at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and became a lecturer at the same university.
Rashid Diab | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Wad Madani, Sudan |
Education | College of Fine and Applied Art (BA, 1978) Complutense University of Madrid (PhD, 1991) |
Style | Contemporary visual art |
Website | rashiddiab |
After his return to Sudan, he founded his Dara Art Gallery and Rashid Diab Cultural Centre, where he organized numerous exhibitions and workshops. Due to the outbreak of the war in Sudan in April 2023, he was forced to abandon his home and personal collection and to return to Madrid.
His participation in major art exhibitions include the 1995 show "Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa", and his work has been presented in international exhibitions. Further, Diab is the author of art historical studies on the visual arts of Sudan.