Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim was born in 1962 in the United Arab Emirates and was part of the United Arab Emirates’ first generation of contemporary artists from the late 1980s, an avant-garde scene that included Hassan Sharif, Abdullah Al Saadi, Hussein Sharif and Mohammed Kazem.
In March 2018, ‘Elements’, a survey of works spanning three decades of his practice, was presented at the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Dusk till Dawn’, Cromwell Place, London, United Kingdom (2021),’ Memory Drum’ (2020) and ‘The Space between the Eyelid and the Eyeball’ (2019) at Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Ibrahim’s public works include: Falling Stones Garden (2020), Al Ula, Saudi Arabia, commissioned by the Royal Commission for Al Ula and Desert X; Grocery (2019), Madinat Zayed Market, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, commissioned by the Government of Abu Dhabi; Untitled (2019), Reem Central Park, Abu Dhabi, commissioned by Aldar Properties PJSC / Abu Dhabi Art; Kids’ Garden (2019), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, commissioned by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company; and Bait Al Hurma (2018), Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah, commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation.
Ibrahim’s group exhibitions include ‘But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988–2008’, The NYUAD Art Gallery (2017); ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’, Yay Gallery, Baku (2015, Azerbaijan); the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016, India); the 53rd Venice Biennale, Italy (2009); the Sharjah Biennial (1993, 2003, 2007); and the Dhaka Biennial (2002, 1993, Bangladesh). Ibrahim will represent the United Arab Emirates at the 2022 Venice Biennale. He received the first prize for sculpture at the Sharjah Biennial (1999, 2001) and has been a member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society since 1986. His works have been acquired by the Sharjah Art Foundation; Sharjah Art Museum; Art Jameel Collection; Barjeel Art Foundation; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; Kunstcentrum Sittard, The Netherlands; The British Museum, London; and Le Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Ibrahim works and lives in Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates.