Thursday 26 / December / 2024
Muscat: Acclaimed Omani artist, Moosa bin Omar Al Zadjali, passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 52 years.
With a glorious career spanning over 40 years, Moosa Omar was one of the most prominent Omani mixed-media artists recognized nationally as well as internationally. He was a member of the International Federation of Arts affiliated with UNESCO, the Omani Society For Fine Arts Association, and the Youth Studio.
Born in the Wilayat of Muttrah in 1971, Moosa Omar brought international fame to the field of Omani mixed-media art. His creations combined modern features with the elements and motifs from the traditional Omani way of life.
Moosa Omar’s artworks feature cotton textiles and burlap in a continuous pattern of dyes and paints creating the perfect medium for his ideas imbued with visual knowledge and mixed-media awareness.
He won many mixed-media awards in Oman, Egypt, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, and his works are found in the art museums in various places of the world.
Exhibitions
Moosa Omar held more than 15 solo exhibitions in the Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt and Germany.
His personal art exhibition ‘Songs for the Sun’ at the Stal Gallery in Muscat in August 2018 brought him much fame and acclaim. He also represented the Sultanate of Oman at the ‘International Fine Arts Symposium’ organised in Jordan in July 2022.
His works also featured at the 19th edition of the ‘Asia Art Biennale’ in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in December 2022, which saw participation of artists from 56 countries.
Moosa Omar works are displayed in a number of joint exhibitions in the Arab Gulf states and various others in a number of European countries, the United States of America, Mexico, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Algeria, Morocco, Taiwan, Lebanon, Australia, South Korea, Egypt, Japan, Jordan, Syria, Bangladesh, and China.
