Mohammed Al-Ibrahim

I paint because I have to; I have to create, imagine, evoke, and react.


My work for the past ten years focused on abstract art and how it recorded and evoked emotions through colour, movement and arrangement. My current work goes back to where I started eighteen years ago, focusing on the representation of human figure and portraiture.


Abstract for me was an easy and fast struggle; human figure and portraiture in the other hand has a deeper pursuit of beauty and emotional investigation.


Through my art, I seek to create an engaging visual environment through line, colour and form. This provides me with the means to develop my own unique artistic voice. My influences are first and foremost everything I see, feel and experience. The artists I most admire can be a long list of old masters and contemporary artist that include Lucian Freud, Rembrandt, and John Singer Sargent.

Alberta University of the Arts, Illustration Certificate of Achievement, 2017

Alberta University of the Arts, Visual Arts Certificate of Achievement, 2016

2022 Group exhibition, Contemporary Calgary, “People’s Portrait Prize” Annual Show, Calgary, AB

2018 Group exhibition, C-Space, “People’s Portrait Prize” Second Annual Show, Calgary, AB

2017 Group exhibition, C-Space, “Healing Hearts Through Art” Keys to Recovery Art Show, Calgary, AB

2017 Group exhibition, Alberta College of Art and Design, “SPOTLIGHT- Juried Exhibit”, Calgary, AB

2017 Group exhibition, C-Space, “People’s Portrait Prize” First Annual Show, Calgary, AB

2016 Group exhibition, Golden Ratio Art Group Annual Show, “Emergence”, Calgary, AB

2013 Group exhibition, APEGA Annual Art Show, Calgary, AB

2011 Group exhibition, APEGA Annual Art Show, Calgary, AB

2010 Group exhibition, Higher Ground, “Blank Canvas”, Calgary, AB

2005 Group exhibition, University of Calgary, “Drawing 101”, Calgary, AB

2004 Group exhibition, Artpoint Gallery, “Unseen Art Show”, Calgary, AB