DR. RASHID DIAB

Born in 1957, Wad Medani, Sudan. Lives and works in Khartoum, Sudan.

EDUCATION

1978 BA(Hons) in Painting., Khartoum College of Fine Art, Khartoum, Sudan. 1984 Fine Arts Degree. Painting, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. 1986 Fine Arts Degree. Etching, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain. 1991 PhD. Painting, Complutense University,Madrid, Spain.

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2004 Dar Al Fanoon (Kwait) Art House Gallery, Trípoli (Libia) 2003 European Parlament Bruxels Asilah (Marroco) Dara Al Fanun (Lybia) 2002 Bissan Gallery, Qatar. Al Riwaq, Baharain. Royal Cultural Centre, Aman, Jordan 2001 The 13th A Mahaba Festival, Lattakia, Siria. Art Contemporain 2001, Expo Beirut, Lebanon. Exhibition, The National, Kwait. Contemporary arab Art, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, Holland. 2000 Dara Art Gallery, Sudan. Al Assad Library, Syria. 1999 Dara Ary Gallery, Sudan. Arabic Centre for Arts and Culture, Lebanon. 1998 Santa Ines Palace, Granada, Spain. 1997 Roshan Gallery Jeddah Saudia Arabia. Harpe Gallery, Marbella, Sapin Ayaso International Gallery, Washington. Idea –Arte Gallery, Madrid, Sapin. Solo Show 3rd Sharjah Biennale. Tolmo Gallery, Toledo, Spain. 1996 Darat Al Fanon, Amman, Jordan. Ra del Rey Gallery, Madrid, Spain. Arca Gallery, Torrelodones, Madrid, Spain. 1995 Hector Mora Gallery, Elche, Spain. Camarena Palace, Caceres, Spain. The Mattye Reed African Heritage Center, North Carolina A&T State University.Greensboro,NC. USA 1994 Zaragoza Gráfica, Zaragoza, Spain. Alif Gallery, Washington, D.C, U.S.A. Museum of the National Centre of Afro American Artist, Boston,U.S.A 1993/94 1983-1993 Retrospective Exhibition at Islamic Cultural Center at Madrid, Spain. 1993 London, England. Savannah Art Gallery. USA. Herbert Johnson Museum. Nairobi, Kenya.Gallery Watatu. 1992 Toledo, Spain. Tolmo Gallery. Madrid, Spain. Tecni Arte, Arco Fair 92. Sevilla, Spain. Expo’92 London, England. Savannah Gallery. Washinton D.C. Alif Gallery. 1976/92 Khartoum, Sudan. Annual exhibition. 1991 Paris, France. L’Espace Miró. Barcelona, Spain. La Caixa. 1990 Madrid, Spain. Gris y Negro Gallery. 1989 Nairobi, Kenya. Gallery Watatu. Madrid, Spain. Xeito Gallery. 1988 Kuwait City, Kuwait. Dushahri Gallery. Madrid, Spain. Faculty of Fine Arts. Complutense University. Sharga. Artists association. Gallery Sharga. 1987 Syria. Abila Gallery. Bagdad, Irak. Orfaly Gallery. 1986 Abu Dabi. Cultural Foundarion. Qatar. Al-Khalig Hotel Gallery. 1976 London, England. African Centre.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000 Transatlantic Dialogue. Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa. National Smithsonian Museum of African Art. Washington. USA Artuel Beirut, Lebanon. Arab Art Wipo, Geneva, Swizerland. 1999 Artuel. Beirut, Lebanon. 1995 “Right to hope”, exhibition organized by U.N. Johannesburg September 1995. South Africa. Seven stories about modern Art in Africa, Africa 95, White Chapel. London. Africus Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa. 1994 5th Biennal International, la Habana, Cuba. Invited to the three yearly exhibition of small size prints, Chamalies, Paris. International Triennial of Grafic Art, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. Cairo, Egipt, 5th International Biennale. 1993 U.S.A Herbert Johnson Museum. (Creative Impulses – Modern Expresions. Four African Artists). Siria. Abila Gallery. International Exhibition of Etching. London, England. London Contemporary Art Fair’93. Savannah Gallery. “Side by Side”. 1992 Madrid, Spain. Contemporary African Art. London, England. Contemporary African Art, Square Gallery. Asilah, Morroco. XV Asilah Festival. London, England. Honaver Gallery. London, England. Savannah Gallery. 1991 Varna. International Print Biennale. Madrid, Spain. Retiro Gallery. Graphic Works of Tree Artists. Bradford, Coubagy. Shouth Square Gallery. “Paradox of the New”. Khartoum, Sudan. First Italian – Sudanese Exhibition. Havana, Cuba. Quorum Gallery. Spanish Workshop at 3rd Biennal. Asilah, Morroco. XIV Asilah Festival. Asilah, Morroco. National Museum of Art. Madrid, Spain. Retiro Gallery. London, England. Art Gallery Commonwealth Institute. “A Grain of Wheat, Art Relief for Africa”. 1990 Joensu, Finlandia. Meeting of the world. Kochi. 1st International Triennial exhibition of prints. Athenas, Greece. Guest of honor of the Mediterranean Biennale of Graphic Arts, dedicated to the Golden Olympiad, 96. Madrid, Spain. The Villa Cultural Centre. Reinosa, Santander (Spain). Cultural House: El Convento. Sevilla, Spain. Expo’92: Tour exhibition in all Andalucía for the works of the book “Andalucia sueño y realidad”. Barcelona, Spain. Cinquechento Gallery. Paper and Creation. Zamora, Spain. X Biennal Zamora. Madrid, Spain. Torculo Gallery. Carmen Arozena Prize. 1989 London, England. Contemporary Art from the Islamic World. Madrid, Spain. Caja de Ahorros. Barcelona, Spain. Trade Art Gallery. Mini Print International de Cadaques. Havana, Cuba. Habana, Cuba. CIPE’89. Little Etchings. Madrid, Spain. Torculo Gallery. Taipi, Taiwan. International Biennale Print Exhibition, Taipi Art Museum. Havana, Cuba. 3rd Havana Biennale. Havana National Museum. Varna. 5th International Print Biennal. Fedriskad, Nowegian. Internatioanl Biennale of Grafic Art. 1988 Madrid, Spain. Organized by Manos Unidas. “Nord Sout”, Edurne Gallery. Cairo, Egipt. 3th International Biennale. London, England. Sudan Art Aid, Oxfam Foundation, Sudan Cultural Centre. Valladolid. Spain. Contemporary Arab Art Exhibition. Velazquez Gallery. Madrid, Spain. Contemporary Prints. Calcografía Nacional. Royal Academic of Art. 1987 Taipi, Taiwan. 3th International Biennale Print Exhibition, R.O.C. Madrid, Spain. III Young Artist, Las Vacas. Lodz, Polonia. VI International Exhibit of Etching,Small Grafic. Argelia. First Internatioanl Biennal. Barcelona, Sapin. Internatioanl Mini Print de Cadaques. Cairo, Egipt. Tree sudanese Artists, Raggab Gallery. 1986 Madrid, Sapin. Torculo Gallery. Khartoum, Sudan. Todays Sudanese Painters; French ultural Centre with Goethe Institut. Madrid, Spain. Contemporary forms of Oriental Art Summer Gallery. 1984 Asilah Morroco. 7th Festival of Asilah . Granada, Spain. Primer encuentro Hispano-Arabe de Almuñecar , Majuelo Park. Spain. Spanish painters, organized by Comunidad de Castilla y Leon, Introduction by Antonio Gala. Salamanca, Sapin. 1st Antological Exhibition for Arab Artist at Salina Palace. 1980 Khartoum, Sudan. Traditional and Contemporary: 3rd Cultural Art Festival. 1979 Khartoum, Sudan. Diploma Exhibition, Faculty of Fine and Applied Art. Khartoum, Sudan. “Sudanese Contemporary Art” Tree group shows, Kuwait, Hamburg and Khartoum, organized by the Council for Arts and Letters.

PRIVATE AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt. Modern Museum of Etching, Cairo, Egypt. Museum of Modern Art, Bagdad, Iraq. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan. Museum of Contemporary Art, Nairobi, Kenya. National Library, Madrid, Spain. Museo of Bello Piñeiro, El Ferrol, Coruña, Spain. Museo of arte Castellano-Leonés, Spain. Museo of Royal Academy of Fine Arts, San Fernando, Madrid, Spain. Museum of Modern Art, Tunis. Jordan Royal Fine Art Museum Wifredo Lam Centre of Habana, Cuba. Junta de Andalucía, Expo’92. Banco Zaragozano, Madrid, Spain. Ministery of Foreing Affairs, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, Madrid, Spain. Arab League, Madrid, Spain. Spanish-Arab Institute of Culture, Madrid, Spain. African Centre of Madrid, Spain. Institute of Arab World, Paris, France. Nacional Council of Arts and Letters, Khartoum, Sudan. Diputación de Zamora, Spain. Life Museum of Fine Art, Tunis. Unesco, Paris, France. Musée d’art contemporain of Chamaliénes, Paris.

AWARDS / GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS

1991 Prize of Acquisition in the X Biennal of Drawing of Zamora, Spain. Honor of the Maximo Ramos Prize in Serigraphy, El Ferrol, Spain. Scholarship, Institute of collaboration with the Arab World. 1989 Medal of the Cuban Fund of Cultural goods. Havana, Cuba. Second Prize of the Salon de Otoño de Madrid, Spain. 1988 Medal of the III Biennial of Cairo, Egypt. 1987 Prize, III Biennial of R.O.C. Taipi, Taiwan. Prize, Carmen Arozena, Madrid, Spain. 1st Prize, Biennial of Argeria. 1986 Medal of the Cultural Foundation of Abu Dabi. 1985 Honorary Scholarship, Spanish-Arab Institute of Culture, Madrid, Spain. 1980 Scholarship, Spanish Government. 1979 Honorary Scholarship, Ministery of Exterior Affairs of Spain.

PUBLICATIONS.

Sudanese contemporary painting. In “Art from the Islamic World”. Rashid Diab, pp 245-252. Escorpion Publishing Ltd. London, 1989.

“La pintura sudanesa. Tradición y contemporaneidad”. P.H.D. Published by Complutense University, Madrid. 1992.

Lecture:” Hacia una contribución peculiar del arte africano contemporáneo a la Historía Universal del Arte y una comprensión nueva de la estética”. III Bienal de la Habana. 1989. Centro Wifredo Lam. Published by Letras Cubanas, la Habana, Cuba. 1989.

“Al-Andalus dream and reality”. Edition Princeps. June, 1990. Published by Escalpo for Andalucía goverment.

Article:” Contemporary African Art from the Sudanese perspective” Atlantica Magazine. Issue Nº8, Autumn 1994.

“Arab contemporary art”. Correo del Arte Magazine. Issue nº58. November 1988.

Poster and catalogue for the workshop against apartheid,1989. Madrid. Spain.

Two posters: The song of the world; for the OKAPI Company. Madrid.

Paper published on the catalogue of Africus. “Different Values – Universal Art: The State of Modern African Art”. Johannesburg Biennale 1995.

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Rachid Diab : SOUDAN C’est le grand maitre de la gravure arabe très connu dans le monde arabe amis aussi en Espagne car il y resta plus de 10 ans en tant que professeur, directeur de la section gravure à l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Madrid. Rachid Diab est extrêmement sensible. on découvre dans son travail la transparence des couleurs. Au-dessus de la transparence on retrouve l’identité artistique africaine, soudanaise. Son regard est intense et s’étend au delà de la toile. Sa gravure et sa peinture apparaissent comme très profondes, gorgé d’une poésie qui touche sans distinction tout public.

Source: http://www.salon-automne.com/2010/06/14/les-artistes-du-monde-arabe-presentes-au-salon-dautomne-2010/