Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim b. 1962

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (b. 1962, Khorfakkan, UAE) is part of the first generation of contemporary artists in the United Arab Emirates, emerging in the late 1980s alongside Hassan Sharif, Abdullah Al Saadi, Hussein Sharif and Mohammed Kazem. His work is deeply rooted in a lifelong relationship with the landscape of Khorfakkan, where the Gulf of Oman meets the Hajar Mountains, and this connection to the natural environment has remained central to his practice for over three decades. Working across installation, drawing and handmade objects, Ibrahim creates forms that resemble primitive tools, bones or fragments of trees, as if unearthed from an ancient site rather than newly made, while his works on paper develop a personal visual language of repeated marks, inscriptions and abstract symbols that recall cave drawings and record the passage of time through meditative repetition. He represented the United Arab Emirates at the 2022 Venice Biennale with the installation Between Sunrise and Sunset, presented at the National Pavilion UAE, and has presented major exhibitions including Two Clouds in the Night Sky at the Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi (2025) at Sharjah Art Foundation (2018). His work is held in international collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Sharjah Art Foundation; Art Jameel; Barjeel Art Foundation; and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha.