Rashid Diab

Due to the outbreak of the war in Sudan in April 2023, he was forced to abandon his home and personal collection and to return to Madrid. His participation in major art exhibitions include the 1995 show "Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa", and his work has been presented in international exhibitions. Further, Diab is the author of art historical studies on the visual arts of Sudan.

• Name — Rashid Diab • Born — 1957 • Birthplace — Wad Madani, Sudan • Website — https: rashiddiab.com/ • Education — College of Fine and Applied Art (BA, 1978) Complutense University of Madrid (PhD, 1991) • Style — Contemporary visual art

Diab grew up the son of a government employée in Wad Madani, a regional capital city in east-central Sudan. He studied at the College of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum, from which he graduated in 1978 with honours. Sponsored by a scholarship from the government of Spain, he continued his studies the following year at the Complutense University of Madrid, where he obtained degrees both in painting and graphic arts. In 1991, he obtained his PhD from the same university with a thesis on the ‘Philosophy of Sudanese Art’ in 1991. Following this, he became the first lecturer from an African country at the university's Faculty of Fine Arts. After having lived in Spain for 20 years, he returned to Khartoum in 1999. From then on, Diab was active as a painter, art teacher and director of his Rashid Diab Cultural Center and Dara Art Gallery in Khartoum, the latter managed by his son Yafil Mubarak. Due to the 2023 war in Sudan, he was forced to return to his former home in Madrid in 2023. As art historian, Diab has co-authored articles on Modern Art in Sudan in a 2009 handbook of Sudan and in the 1989 publication on Contemporary Art from the Islamic World. His daughter Dar Al-Naim is a visual artist of Sudanese and Spanish descent.

The authorities additionally record the heading Rachid Diab. His recorded languages were Arabic, English and Spanish.