Waleed Mohammed (Wamo) (b. 2000, Khartoum, Sudan) is a Sudanese visual artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. His work explores memory, migration, and identity through reimagined archival photographs and layered materiality. Deeply influenced by Sudanese heritage and the evolving narratives of displacement, Waleed’s practice engages with vintage studio portraits and photographs from the 1950s–70s, recontextualizing them through contemporary textures and color palettes to bridge generations and geographies, combines painting, mixed media, and cotton yarns to transform personal and collective memories into a contemporary visual language that questions belonging, absence, and cultural continuity.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Applied Arts from Sudan University of Science and Technology. Since his first solo exhibition in 2022 in Khartoum, his work has been presented in various group exhibitions across Sudan, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the United States, Kenya and Egypt. In 2024, he was awarded the MRI Fund for Artists Under Risk by the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, Waleed works from his studio in Nairobi, where he is also co-founding a Sudanese art collective with fellow artists to foster artistic exchange and community engagement.
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Waleed Mohammed (Wamo) (b. 2000, Khartoum, Sudan) is a Sudanese visual artist based in Nairobi, Kenya. His work explores memory, migration, and identity through reimagined archival photographs and layered materiality. Deeply influenced by Sudanese heritage and the evolving narratives of displacement, Waleed’s practice engages with vintage studio portraits and photographs from the 1950s–70s, recontextualizing them through contemporary textures and color palettes to bridge generations and geographies, combines painting, mixed media, and cotton yarns to transform personal and collective memories into a contemporary visual language that questions belonging, absence, and cultural continuity.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine and Applied Arts from Sudan University of Science and Technology. Since his first solo exhibition in 2022 in Khartoum, his work has been presented in various group exhibitions across Sudan, Spain, Germany, Portugal, the United States, Kenya and Egypt. In 2024, he was awarded the MRI Fund for Artists Under Risk by the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi, Waleed works from his studio in Nairobi, where he is also co-founding a Sudanese art collective with fellow artists to foster artistic exchange and community engagement.
