Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (born 1939) is a Sudanese artist who studied at the College of Fine Arts ( formerly known as the high department of Arts in Khartoum Technical Institute (KTI) ) in Khartoum, Sudan (1963). She pursued her postgraduate at the Royal College of Art in London (1964-1966) and was a founder of a conceptual art group called the "Crystalists" which challenged the traditional practices in the Sudanese art scene.[1][2] She founded the group with Muhammad Hamid Shaddad and Nayla El Tayib and its intention is to challenge the Khartoum Group and its traditional male outlook.[3] She has been called the first modern woman painter in the Sudan.[4]