The creative Radfan Al-Muhammadi, born in the city of Taiz in 1985, lives in Cairo. He won the title of the best Arab visual artist in the world, president and founder of the Arab Forum for Arts in Sana’a, and director of the House of Art in Taiz until 2012. He has previously participated in more than 50 group exhibitions since 2012. 2003, and a member of the jury in a drawing competition organized by “Aqual Access” and UNICEF in 2014. He also won the gold medal from the Basmat International Forum for Fine Arts, and the award for the best plastic work in the Arab Visions 2030 exhibition among the ten best works of 2019. Arab 22 website conducted this interview With the young, creative artist, Radfan Al-Muhammadi, about his artistic journey, beginning with happy Yemen and his artistic departures through his presence in Egypt.
First, we would like to know who the artist Radfan Al-Mohammadi is? Radfan Amin Al-Muhammadi, a Yemeni visual artist, graduate of the Fine Arts Diploma, Industrial Vocational Institute. Then she joined the late artist Hashem Ali, the pioneer of the plastic movement in Yemen, and then was appointed director of the Taiz Art House from 2009 to 2012. In 2013, she founded the Arab Forum for the Arts. In Sanaa, I participated in more than 50 local group exhibitions and more than 30 international exhibitions in China, Egypt, Lithuania, Algeria, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Italy, Britain, and I held five individual exhibitions in Yemen. I also received 8 local and international awards, the most important of which is the title The best Arab visual artist of the year 2016. He has collections in many important places, including the National Art Museum of China.