Rashid Diab

Rashid Diab (Arabic: راشد دياب‎, Wad Madani, Sudan, 1957) is a Sudanese painter and visual artist.[1]

Rashid Diab next to an early self-portrait in his Khartoum studio
Staircase ceiling in the Rashid Diab Arts Center

He studied at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum, from which he graduated in 1978 with honours.[2] Sponsored by a scholarship from the government of Spain, he continued his studies at the Complutense University of Madrid, and submitted his PhD thesis on the ‘Philosophy of Sudanese Art’ in 1991.[3]

Back in Khartum since 1999, Diab works as a painter, art teacher and director of his own artistic center.[4][5][6] His work has been widely exhibited and included in private collections.[7]

The Encyclopedia of African History describes Diab's colourful style as an exemplification of the generation of artists that followed Sudanese pioneers like Ibrahim El Salahi, and "developed a more universal aesthetic, that merges Western, African, and Islamic influences and expresses cultural identity in a global context."[8]

References
  1. "Rashid Diab - AFRICANAH.ORG". 8 February 2015.
  2. Hassan, Salah M.; Enwezor, Okwui (1995). New Visions: Recent Works by Six African Artists: Rashid Diab, Angèle Etoundi Essamba, David Koloane, Wosene Kosrof, Houria Niati, Olu Oguibe. Eatonville: Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts. p. 11.
  3. "Rashid Diab Painting". Saatchi Art. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  4. "Sudanese Painter Holds Exhibition in Korea". 17 April 2009.
  5. "Rashid Diab, el pintor sudanés que explica España más allá del fútbol".
  6. "Sudanese Artist Draws from a Nation's Agony". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-08-16.
  7. Hassan, S. M. (1994-09-01). "Fragments of Poetic Memory: The Art of Rashid Diab". Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. 1994 (1): 19–23. doi:10.1215/10757163-1-1-19. ISSN 1075-7163. S2CID 192196032.
  8. Shillington, Kevin (2005). Encyclopedia of African History. New York / London: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 109. ISBN 978-1579584559.

Further reading
  • Daum, Werner and Rashid Diab, Modern Art in Sudan, In Hopkins, Peter G. (ed.) (2009) Kenana Handbook of Sudan. New York: Routledge, pp. 453-516, ISBN 0-7103-1160-5
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