Sydney · Australia
Landscape as a place of beauty, memory and unease.
Mohamed Khadra’s paintings move between the visible and the concealed: landscapes that appear serene at first, yet hold traces of ecological change, mortality and memory.
Selected works
2026
About
Mohamed Khadra AO
Mohamed Khadra is a Sydney-based artist whose practice centres on landscape, ecology and the tension between appearance and what lies beneath it. His paintings combine atmospheric, often luminous spaces with densely worked foregrounds, shifting between stillness and latent threat.
His recent work developed through the Master of Fine Art at the National Art School, following a Bachelor of Fine Art completed there in 2024. Khadra came to art after a long career in surgery, medicine, teaching and writing. That experience continues to inform a practice attentive to the body, mortality, observation and hidden structures.
He works primarily in oil on board.
Curriculum vitae
Selected
Education
2026 Master of Fine Art, National Art School
2024 Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School
1999 PhD, University of Sydney
Selected exhibitions
2026 Postgraduate Exhibition, National Art School
2026 Mosman Art Walk
2025 Conference of the Birds, solo exhibition, Outsider Gallery, Surry Hills
2025 Dream Machine, Outsider Gallery
2024 National Art School Graduate Show
2024 Basil Sellers Art Prize, Moruya
2024 Second Life, Atherden Place Gallery, The Rocks
2023–24 Elaine Bermingham Finalists Exhibition, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
Selected awards
2026 Finalist, Eloquence Art Prize, Culture Plus, Brisbane
2024 Finalist, Basil Sellers Art Prize
2023 Finalist, Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize
2017 Officer of the Order of Australia
Writing
Making the Cut, Random House
The Patient, Random House
Terminal Decline, Random House
Honour, Duty and Courage, Random House
At Any Cost?, with David Williamson
Contact
Studio & exhibition enquiries
mhk@khadra.com.auGallery representation · Gallery 144, Surry Hills, Sydney