Born in 1939 in Omdurman, Sudan, Kamala studied art at the Faculty of Fine and Applied art in Sudan university graduating at 1963 to go on and complete her masters at London’s Royal College of Art in 1966.
Her work has been widely exhibited at renowned institutions including the Sharjah Art Museum (UAE), Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (USA), Museum of Modern art (MoMA), the TATE (UK), among many others. The artist has also participated in several group shows including Breaking Veils: Women Artist from the Islamic World at the Porte d’Amboise in Rhodes and Forests and Spirits: Figurative Art from the Khartoum School at the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2018 and a solo exhibition in 2014 entitled Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq: Women in Crystal Cubes at the Shibrain Art Gallery in Khartoum. She received the Prince Claus Prize in arts and literature in 2019.
You can attend the exhibition Kamala Ishaq: More than 50 Years in Drawing in Savannah Innovation Labs in the period from January 2nd to 10th. To attend the exhibition please RSVP through the link in our bio and know that one RSVP grants one person to enter. No mask, no entry.