Mohamed Bushara
Born in Omdurman Sudan
Statement
I work from nowhere, without an idea. It is a feeling. I attack the surface and then the white is no longer neutral. There is a dialogue between the surface and myself. Ideas begin to build up. The more I work, the more things develop until I gain control. The images are elusive.They are both free and entrapped at the same time.
Education
1977
Slade School of Fine Art,London University College,Higher Diploma in Fine Art (equivalent to MA) studied with Bartolomeu dos Santos, Stanley Jones and Antony Gross.
1972
Faculty of Arts,University of Khartoum B.A Honours , Sudan
Selected Solo Shows
2007
*Collage and Works on Paper*,Artist-in-Residence
The Workshop Studios , 38 St Mary's Road , Oxford , England1974 *The Graphic works of Mohamed Omer Bushara*
British Council Khartoum,Sudan
2006
The Hawth Art centre,Crawley,West Sussex , England
2004
*A Woman Offering her Child to Silence*, Modern Art Oxford , England
*Mohamed Omer Bushara : Recent Prints*, South Hill Park Arts Centre,Berkshire,England
2003
*Dislocation : Bushara Drawings and Prints*,in collaboration with three Poets fro Nigeria,Trinidad and Finland
Magdalen Road Studios,Oxford,England
*Touching the Bare Feet of Chaos*, organised by New Internationalist Magazine,Conway hall,London,England
1996
*Bushara Recent Works on Paper*,British Council,Asmara,Eritrea
1995
*Bushara :Recent Works*, Accra International Art Festival,Ghana
1994
*Mohamed Omer Bushara:Protest Art and Sudan 1973-1993*, The Armory Centre for the Arts,sponsored by the Art galleries of The
University of California Northridge,Los Angeles,USA
1993
*Mohamed Omer Bushara: Recent Works*, Savannah Gallery,London,England
1981
*The Vision of Mohamed Omer Bushara* The African-American Institute,New York,USA
Selected Group Shows
2009
"Exhibition of Contemporary Prints*, The North Wall Art Centre,Oxford,England
2008
*Within walls*, Oxfordshire Museum , Woodstock,England
*Earth as Witness*, Atelier Bell,La Roach-sur-Grane,Drome,France
*Angaza Afrika:African Art Now*,October Gallery , London
*Images Imagined and Reflected*, Oxford Printmakers, Christ Church Picture gallery,Christ Church College,Oxford,England
2007
Amnesty International Action Centre,London,England
*exhibition of Contemporary Prints*, The Museum of Reading,England
*Detours:Histories,memories,Strategies*, Art-in-Situe,Crest,France
2004
*Sudan in the Round Reading Room*, The British Museum , London , England
2003/4
*Asylum Years*, Oxford Brookes University school Of Art , England
2002
*Printmaking at the Slade 1960-1994:The Gift of Bartolomeu dos Santos *
2001
*Oxford Contemporaries*, Wiseman gallery , Oxford,England
String Print Room,University , University College London , England
2000
*Art in Exile:Five Sudanese Painters*, The Oriental Museum,Durham University,England
1997
*Lille Cultural Festival*, Lille , France
*Portrait/Drawing and Graphics 97*, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Society of Scottish Artists 103 annual Exhibition, The royal Scottish academy Galleries,Edinburgh,Scotland
1994/7
*Triennial of Small size Prints * , France
1992
*Hope For Sudan*,Athens , Greece
1979
*Drawing on Paper*, Tunisia
1978
*Contemporary Arab Graphics* The Iraqi Cultural Centre,London,England
The Iraqi National Museum,Baghdad,Iraq
Awards
2004
Marjory field award for 2004 in Printmaking, Oxford Printmakers Co-Operative,Oxford,England
1974
First Prize Graphic and Plastic Arts, African Arts Magazine,African Studies Centre,UCLA,USA
Residencies
2007/8
Artist-in-Residence , The Workshop Studios , Oxford , England
2003
Oxford Brookes School of Art,Publishing and Music
2000/4
Magdalen Road Studios
1980
African artists Project , USA
1979
Art Colony ,Pocitlj , Yugoslavia
Books/Publication
2008
*Angaza Afrika : African Art Now*
Chris Spring (Curator-African Art Galleries,The British Museum)
Laurence King Publishing 2008 .
pages2, 72-79 .
Public Collections
The British Museum ,Drawing and Prints Department, London , England
UCLA Fowler museum of Cultural History , Los Angeles, California , USA