Hussein Salim received his bachelor's degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Sudan for Science Technology. He spent a number of years as a refugee in various countries such as Egypt and South Africa. He later attained his Master’s degree in art at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa. He has exhibited extensively overseas along with acclaimed local galleries, such as Johans Borman and Bonisa Private Gallery. Inspired by Sudan’s diversity and diasporic, multicultural communal structure, his body of work aims to celebrate this through extensive layering of symbols masked by rich colors.