Mona Taha

Artist Profile

Mona Taha
Artist born in Uganda
Mona Taha, born in Uganda in 1988 to an Egyptian father and a Rwandese mother is a self-taught artist and mother of two boys. She primarily works with charcoal on medium to large-scale paper. Her drawings are figurative and oftentimes self-portraits depicting herself in intimate, yet mundane poses. She is fascinated by anatomy and how the body can portray a message oscillating between motion or stillness. The figures depicted in her work seem to be frozen in moments between movement and stillness, moving on from stillness, yet caught in suspension while contemplating how to move forward.