From the :CMYK" series Painting

Mutaz El Emam was born and raised in Kassala in the Eastern region of Sudan until he went to Khartoum to study Fine Arts at the Sudan University of Science and Technology. It took him three long months to finally convince his academically minded parents that in spite of his high grades at school, what he really wanted to study above all else was Art. Between 2003 and 2007 he worked in Art Therapy at the Grace Child Care Organization in Khartoum, an establishment that lodges and teaches young survivors of wars and adverse social circumstances until they reach the age of adolescence. His artistic practice encompasses Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media and Collage. His work has been showcased in Italy, Spain, Libya , Uganda, China,Bulgaria ,Sudan , Egypt and throughout the Middle East. He has participated in numerous solo and collective exhibitions regionally and internationally . Elemam was the editor of the Africa Art file for the “Not Apartheid Art” Cam Casoria art magazine. He lives and works between Egypt and Sudan.