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Born 1962, Khorfakkan, UAE
Lives and works in Khorfakkan, UAE

Khorfakkan-based Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (b. 1962, UAE) is part of the UAE's first generation of contemporary artists from the 1990s and 2000s, an avant-garde that included Hassan Sharif, Abdullah Al Saadi, Hussein Sharif, and Mohammed Kazem.

Ibrahim's practice has been inspired by a lifelong relationship with the environment of Khorfakkan, his place of birth, with the Gulf of Oman on one side and the Hajar Mountains on the other. The terrain is barren and rocky, the mountains form an imposing backdrop looming over his village. Since childhood the artist has lived in this landscape and it is this experience that informs his practice, making his work in some way autobiographical.  Some writers have compared the affinity to his land as that of Donald Judd and land artists. Ibrahim’s  fascination with the desolate, rocky terrain on this eastern shore of the UAE recalls not only Judd's attraction to the barrenness of his Texan hideaway, but also the earthy toils of a generation of land artists, with whom Ibrahim shares a spiritual lineage.

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