Rahiem Shadad

Sudanese Curator & Gallerist | Visual Arts Portfolio

Beginnings

2022

Beginnings

BEGININGS COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION

About The Artists

Amani Azhari Babiker, 23, studied at Sudan University of Science and Technology, Department of Painting and Coloring. She has participated in many workshops that use the arts as a means of awareness and social development. Including a workshop with UNDP, an awareness workshop on the harmful effects of female circumcision, and a workshop on the use of medicines with the World Health Organization. Amani has participated in many group exhibitions such as Their Coffee is Art (Heritage House 2021), Khali Dua exhibition (Downtown Gallery, 2021), and Bait El Nisa exhibition (Savannah Gallery, 2020).

Aya Babiker, 23 years old, studied at Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of Painting. She participated in many exhibitions and group workshops with UNDB. Khali Dawa International Women's Day Exhibition, DownTown Gallery. International Women's Day Exhibition, Heritage House 2021.

Ebtihal Hussaen was born 1995 in Doha, Qatar and moved to Sudan in (2001) where she lived her childhood on a farm along the Blue Nile in Soba. She is a visual and Henna artist. Ebtihal did a diploma program of art  in  (2014), But she felt that it did not achieve her ambitions specifically. So she returned back to secondary school level to sit again for the Sudanese secondary school exam. In 2017 she succeeded and became eligible to apply to the bachelor's program in the college of fine arts. In 2018 she joined the painting department. Now She is a final year student with exceptional grades. During these years she participated in many exhibitions and workshops in Qatar and Sudan. The most prominent of them was "Binary" exhibition in Meridien hotel in 2014.

Yathrib Hassan, 23, studied at Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of Painting and Coloring. Yathrib participated in many awareness workshops, including a workshop on the issue of female genital mutilation (Ahfad University, 2017), a workshop on motherhood (Sudan University, 2018), a workshop on combating drugs (Ministry of Culture, 2018), a workshop and a group exhibition with UNDP (Petronas, 2019). Yathrib was also part of the Bastawi Baghdadi Foundation (2021). Yathrib's latest participation is a workshop on women with the UNDP and a group exhibition for Women's Rights Day at Downtown Gallery 2021.