Mohammad Omer Khalid was born in Burri, Sudan in 1936 and graduated from the School of Fine and Applied Art in Khartoum in 1959. He proceeded to Florence, Italy in 1963, where he studied fresco painting and developed his printmaking techniques. He has been living in New York City for over 30 years and has taught at several institutions including New York University, Columbia University, Pratt Institute and The New School University among others. As a master printer in his own atelier in New York, his commissions include printing editions for internationally known artists such as Louise Nevelson and Romare Bearden and Jim Dine.He is widely traveled and has participated in numerous exhibitions in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia and the Americas. Major awards include 2001 and 2003 National Academy First Prize in Printmaking; 1993 First Prize International Biennial of Cairo and 1991 Bronze Prize Osaka, Japan. His work is in several private collections as well as in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Grenoble Museum, Grenoble, France, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Osaka Japan; The Jordanian National Museum, Amman, Jordan, Museum of Modern Art, Baghdad, Iraq and The National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.