Born: Omdurman, Sudan

Education:
1967-72 University of Khartoum, Faculty of Arts, B.A Honours, Sudan
1975-77 Slade School of Fine art, London University College, Higher Diploma
In Fine Art equivalent to M.A (on British Council Scholarship)
London, England. (Printmaking with Barto Dos Santos, Stanely Jones, Peter Daglesh and Anthony Gross).

Awards:
1974 First Prize, Graphic and Plastic Arts, African Arts Magazine,
African Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A
2003 Marjory Field Award for 2004 in Printmaking, presented by Oxford Printmakers Co-Operative, Oxford, England, December 2003.

Residency:
30June- 30 September2003 Artist-in-Residence at Oxford Brookes University’s School of Art, Publishing and Music, (printmaking Department), Oxford-England.
January 2004-December 2004 Artist-in-residence at Oxford Printmakers Workshop as a Winner of Marjorie Field award.

Scholarships:
British Council Scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art, London University College - England (1975/77).

Sponsorship:
2001/4 Sponsored by Southern Arts (Art Council England) for Residencies at Magdalen Road Studios for the years: 2001/2, 2002/3, and 2003/4.

2003 Sponsored by Art Council England to attend a Conference entitled:
"Sense of Place", organized by The British Council in the period 25th-27th November 2003,Cardiff, Wales.
2004 Sponsored by Arts Council England South East to attend The Three E event, at The Hawth Theatre, Hawth avenue, Crawley, West Sussex, England in Friday 18th June 2004.

Workshops:

1. Art Colony, Pocitlj, Yugoslavia, May 1979 (Workshop)
2. Contemporary African artists Project U.S.A. (Visiting Art colleges/universities, Participating in Public Lectures/ workshops/ group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, Washington D.C and New York. Sept-Oct.1980.
3. Organized a drawing workshop during the solo show: "Bushara:
Recent Paintings", at Magdalen Road Studios, Saturday 20th October 2001,
Oxford-England
4. Took part of a street Performance/Pavement Drawing in St.Aldates Street, Oxford organized by the Dutch artist Sonja Van Kerkhoff (Oxford artists draw images of Leiden landmarks along the street from the Town hall). 3rd October 2002,Oxford-England.
5. Organized a workshop of approaches to drawing/Painting at Magdalen Road Studios during the show: " Dislocation", Saturday November 1st. 2003,Oxford-England.
6. Printmaking workshop in the Printmaking Department at the School of Art, Publishing and Music, Oxford Brookes University during a Show entitled (Asylum Years –December 5th 2003 – January 24th 2004). This workshop is in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford in December 13th, 2003 for artists and publicTalk,
1. Informal talk with the Poet Rip Bulkeley about Bushara paintings in the gallery space, Sunday 14th 2001, MRS, Oxford-England.

Membership:
2000 Member of Studio 6-Blooming Art, East Oxford, England-June, July
2000 Member of Magdalen Road Studios – from July until now
2004 Member of Oxford Printmakers Co-Operative.

Solo shows:
1.British Council, Khartoum-Sudan: “The Graphic Works of Mohamed Omer Bushara”, October 1974
2.The African – American Institute, New York, U.S.A:”The Vision of Mohamed Omer Bushara”, Feb. – May 1981
3.Savannah Gallery, London-England:” Mohamed Omer Bushara: Recent Works”, May 1993
4.The Armory Centre For the Arts, Los Angeles-U.S.A.:”Mohamed Omer Bushara: Protest Art And Sudan 1973-1993”, Sponsored by the Art Galleries of the University of California, Northridge, April 1994
5.The British Council, Asmara-Eritrea, August 1994
6.Accra International Art Festival, Ghana: “Bushara: Recent Works”, Feb.1995
7.Asmara, Eritrea: “Bushara: Recent Works on Paper”, August 1996
8. “Mohamed Bushara: Recent Paintings”, Magdalen Road Studios, Oxford-England, Oct.14-28, 2001,sponsored by Southern Arts.
9. "Dislocations: Poetry & Exile", a reading by Back Room Poets and an Exhibition by Mohamed Omer Bushara, an evening introduced by South African Anthropologist and Poet Renee Hirschon, at St.Columbas Hall, Alfred Street, 18 November 2001,Oxford, England.
10. Two series of Paintings on Paper:
1. "touching the bare feet of chaos" finger painting.
2. "a woman offering her child to silence", organized as part of the New Internationalist Magazine celebration of their 30th anniversary at Conway Hall, London-England, sponsored by the magazine and Southern Arts, March 13th, 2003.
11. "Dislocation", an Exhibition of drawings and prints in collaboration with three Poets from Nigeria, Trinidad and Finland at Magdalen Road studios from October 24th to November the 2nd 2003.
12. An exhibition of prints (collagraphs/etching) & paintings organized at Magdalen Road Studios during Oxford Visual Art festival, May 14-23, 2004, Oxford, England.
13.A show of drawings and prints organized at Birmingham by the Sudanese Pen Club, Saturday August 21,2004.
13. Forthcoming show at Modern Art Oxford (Museum of Modern Art, Oxford –England, 28 September –28 November 2004, entitled "A WOMAN OFFERING HER CHILD TO SILENCE ".
14. Forthcoming show at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire entitled "Mohamed Bushara: Recent Prints (Collagraph/Etching) ", from October 16th to November 21h, 2004-Berkshire, England.

Group shows:
1. Sudan (Khartoum Art Gallery, 1974)
2. England, London at The Iraqi Cultural Centre, (Contemporary Arab Graphics, 1978), the show was transferred to The Iraqi National Museum.
3. Tunisia (Drawing on Paper, 1979)
4. Greece (Hope for Sudan, 1992)
5. France (Lillie Cultural Festival, 1979), (Triennial of small Size Prints, 1994,1997)
6. Bosnia and Herzegovina (Portrait/Drawing and Graphics 97,1997)
7. Scotland (The Society of Scottish Artists 103 Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, October-Nov. 1997)
8. England since 1976 until recently
9. (Durham at The Oriental Museum:” Art in Exile: Five Sudanese Painters”, August-Sep. 2000, organized by Durham University sponsored by Northern Arts.
10. Oxford, Magdalen Road Studios group shows July, December 2000, May, Dec. 2001.
11. Wiseman Gallery, Oxford:” Oxford Contemporaries”, March 10-24,2001.
12. A Show with the Sculptor Diana Bell at Magdalen Road Studios, May 2001, during Oxford Visual Art Visual Festival 2001, sponsored by Southern Arts
13. Cowley Road Carnival, Saturday June 30th 2001.
14. "Printmaking at the Slade 1960-1994: The Gift of Bartolomeu dos Santos", Strang Print Room, The College Art Collections-University College London-England, April 22nd-June 14th 2002.
15. "SCAPES", a group show with 5 artists at X-CHANGE Gallery, Oxford, August 6-17th, 2002.
16. "Works on Paper April-May 2002", Magdalen Road Studios, May 2002 during Oxford Art Weeks, Sponsored By Southern Arts, Oxford England.
17. Oxford Visual Art Festival 2003, works on paper entitled: "A Woman offering her Child to Silence", 17-25 May 2003.
17. "Asylum Years", with artists Ibrahim al-Salahi and David Odwar and performance artist Denise Bryan organized by Oxford Brookes University from 5th December 2003 to 24th January 2004, Oxford-England.
18. Oxford Visual Art festival (Art Weeks), Magdalen Road Studios, 15-23 May 2004.
19. Oxford Visual Art Festival (Art Weeks), Oxford Printmakers Co-Operative, 15-23 May 2004
20. "The Waiting Rooms Exhibition", presented by Artist in Exile in partnership with The Funding Network, from September 8th, 2004 to August 26th, 2005 at Six GP Surgeries in North and East London-England Participating Artists: MarthaElsesser (Colombia), Mohamed Bushara (Sudan), Mariana Gordon (Romania), Margareta Kern (Bosnia), SuzanaTamamovic (Bosnia), George Berberian (Armenia), Maryam Hashemi (Iran).
21. "Fine Artists` Original Prints", at The Sewell Centre Radley College, organized by Oxford Printmakers Co-Operative from Friday September 10th to Thursday September 30th 2004, Abingdon, - England.
22. Participating in the Forthcoming show at The British Museum: "Sudan in the Round Reading room ", part of the coming show entitled: Sudan: ancient treasures, from 9 September 2004 - 9 January 2005, London, England.
23. "Prints" , an exhibition of etchings/engraving with Julian Dovrado at Far From The Madding Crowd from December 19th, 2004-30 January 2005, Oxford-England.

Publications:
"New Currents, Ancient Rivers Contemporary African Artists in Generation of Change", by Jean Kennedy, Smithsonian Institution Press,1992

· “African Arts Magazine”, published quarterly by the African Studies Centre, University of California, Los Angeles-U.S.A :
- (Competition 1974), Cover Art and pages 8-12 Winter 1975, Volume VIII, No. 2
2. (Bushara at the Slade), by Editor John Povey, pages 36-41, Volume XII, No.3 May 1979.
3. "Mohamed Omer Bushara (portfolio)", by Professor Sondra Hale, pages 66-71,Volume XXVII, No.1, January 1994.
- “Art in Society”, University of Wisconsin-U.S.A, 1975
- “Firkin way Fan-Thought and Art”, Germany, 1975
- “Left Curve”, San Francisco-U.S.A, 1976
- Catalogue essay for the Show at The African-American Institute:” The Vision of Mohamed Omer Bushara”, 1981
- “Village Voice”:“ImmigratingIdeas”, New York- U.S.A, 1981
- “Africa Today”:” Art and Dialectics”, University of Denver-U.S.A, 1981
- “Sudan News”, Athens-Greece, 1992,1993
- "Sudan News", issue No.65, 5th Year April 1994, pages I, 6 :(Mohamed Omer Bushara: Protest Art and Sudan 1973-1993).
- “AL-Sharq al-Awsat”, London-England, 1992
- “Al-Hayat Newspaper”:” Mohamed Omer Bushara: The Continuous Journey of Visual Discoveries”, London-England, 1993
- “Daily News”, Northridge, California-U.S.A, 1994
- “Los AngelesTimes”:”Protest out of Africa”, California-U.S.A, 1994
- “Al-Khartoum newspaper”, Cairo-Egypt, 1994
- “Eritrea Profile”, Asmara-Eritrea, 1994
- “Horizon”, Accra-Ghana, 1994
· Brochure essay by Prof. Sondra Hale for the show at Armory Centre for the Arts: “These Thin Black Lines Cannot Say How We Feel: The Political Art of Mohamed Omer Bushara”, 1994
- Catalogue essays for the show at Savannah Gallery 1993:
1. Olu Oguile:”Mohamed Omer Bushara”
2. Prof. Sondra Hale:”Bushara and His Indelible Art”
3. David Lillington:” Golden Birds in Thousands”
- Prof. Sondra Hale:” Imagery and Invention: Sudanese at Home and in the World-Conversation with Mohamed Omer Bushara and Musa Khalifa”
- Prof. Sondra Hale:” The Artist In (ter) vention: Sudanese and the Colonial Frame”, a Paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association, Chicago 1998,a Panel on:” Political, Exilic and Immigration Identities in Visual and Musical Expression”
- “Al-Ahram Weekly”, Cairo, Egypt, 1999
- "Mohamed Omer Bushara Emerges From Artistic Exile", by Prof. Sondra Hale, "aljadid Magazine" Volume 5,No.28, summer 1999,Los Angeles.U.S.A.
· Al Sharq al-Awsat newspaper, Vol.25 No.8877, Wednesday 19 March 2003,London-England.
- "Exhibition reveals past lives of asylum seekers", Oxford Mail, Friday 12, December 2003,Page 5,Oxford –England.

Book Cover/Illustrations/Designs:
- " Sudanow", Magazine published by Ministry of culture, Khartoum-Sudan, October 1977, illustration for short stories by Salah Hassan Ahmed.
- A Poetry Book by the Saudi Poet Ahmed Al-Mula, Beirut, Lebanon, 1995
- A Poetry Book by the Saudi Poet Ahmed Al-Mula, Beirut, Lebanon-, 1996
· West view Press a division of Harper/Collins Publisher for Academic Book by Prof. Sondra Hale:” Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism and the State”. Hard cover (1996), Paper back cover (1997), Colorado U.S.A/Oxford –UK.
- Poetry Book " Sixty years under", Rip Bulkeley, printed by Information press, Oxford October 2001.
- "Aljadid " Magazine, a Review and Record of Arab Culture and Arts published in Los Angeles-USA: Illustrations:
1. Winter 1999,Volume 5,No.26, Cover Art and illustrations pages 6,7,30.
2. Summer 1999, Volume 5,No.28, Cover Art, illustration and an article by Prof. Sondra Hale "Mohamed Omer Bushara Emerges from Artistic Exile".
3. Spring 2000,Volume 6,No.31, Cover Art (The Perfect Kiss, 1999).
4. Fall 2000,Volume 6,No.33, cover Art (untitled).
5. Fall 2001,Volume 7,No.37, page 3.
· “The New Internationalist” Magazine, Oxford-England, illustrations:
1. No. 319,December 1999 (weather report: trouble ahead)-page 2.
2. No. 320 January-February 2000 (Blueprint for change), page 3.
3. No. 326 August 2000 (Africa united-The Pan African alternative), page 13.
4. No. 327 September 2000 (Torture-never forget), page 9.
5. No. 339 October 2001 (New writing from the South), pages 12-14,illustration for "Arrows of Rain" by the Nigerian writer Okey Ndible.
6. No. 340 November 2001 (Twin Terrors), page 6.
7. No.345 May 2002 (Islam: Resistance and Reform), page 9.
8. No. 350 October 2002 (Keep out: The case for open borders), pages 20-22
9. No.352 (Get it right)-cover, hand modeling.
· “Waterlog” Journal from Two Rivers Press, page 60, Autumn 2001, and Reading England.
-Grandir Publisher in Nimes, France published a book of my drawings in Black/White with a text/a folk tale from Dinka tribe in Southern Sudan written by Professor Fancis Deign entitled "Atong", 2003.
- Cover design/Art work for the following Poetry books by Oxford based Poets
1. War Times, by Rip Bulkily
2. Slipstream, by Jeremy Hilton.
3. Ultraviolet Catastrophe, by Helen Kidd
Published by Ediziani Ripostes in Salerno – Italy, May 2003.
- Grandir Publishing House in Nimes, France will publish my work/painting/drawing in a new Book in colours in Feb. 2005 entitled: "Achol and Her Adoptive Lioness-Mother".
·- Working on a new Book based on Collagraphs/Etching prints in Black/white will be published by Grandir / France in 2005.

JOB EXPERIENCES:
- Journalist/Translator/Art Editor for different Sudanese Newspapers and Magazines 1968-1977: Art Editor, Alrai al Aam Magazine, Contributor, al-Sahafa Newspaper And al-Khartoum Magazine, Khartoum, Sudan
- Head of the Fine Art Section, Department of Culture, Ministry of Culture and Information, Khartoum-Sudan, 1977-1981
·- Museum Organizer/Administrator at King Faisal University Museum of Agriculture and Heritage, 1981-1983,Saudi Arabia
·- Translator, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia 1981-1999
- Gallery assistant at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford-England since Oct. 2000