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Mohammad Omer Khalil

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Mohammad Omer Khalil (born 1936)


Biography

Mohammad Omer Khalil was born in 1936 in the Burri Almahas neighborhood of Khartoum, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (modern-day Sudan). Four years after graduating from Khartoum's School of Fine and Applied Arts in 1959, Khalil moved to Italy to study painting and mosaics at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Florence. He was able to attend the academy due to receiving a scholarship from the Sudanese government. After graduating, he studied mosaics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna in 1966.[1][2] After leaving Italy, Kahlil immigrated to the United States in 1967, teaching at Columbia University, New York University, Pratt Institute, and The New School.[1]

Khalil's works gained popularity, part of a new wave of African art that reached Europe and North America.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Oweis, Fayeq S (2007). Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 173–175. ISBN 9780313070310.
  2. ^ "Mohammad Omer Khalil". Aicon Gallery. Retrieved December 6, 2023.
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