Archives: Artists
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Engy Mohsen Sarhan is an artist and curator who lives and works between Zürich and Cairo. In her work, she examines notions of ‘participation’ and ‘collectivity’ by creating frameworks that invite non-artists and artists to think about how spaces can be organized to include the ‘other’. While spatial thinking remains at the core of her…
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b. Cairo, Egypt 1985 Mai Al Shazly is an Egyptian visual artist, visual researcher and a potter based in Cairo. She works with photography, film, writing and recently re-appropriating archival material in different Mediums. Her work has been shown in several exhibitions. She has participated in Paris Biennale des Photographes Du Monde Arabe Contemporain 2019,…
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Mona Elkateb is a visual artist based in Cairo, Egypt. She experiments with a range of mediums, including digital illustration and acrylic painting. She is keen to explore the role of digital art in supporting various social causes online, in particular since the online revolution sparked by women in July 2020. Her artwork often explores…
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Feryal is a Bahraini artist. She started drawing in high school. She developed her skills and her main interest has become portraits with acrylic. Her art is distinguished now by creating Bahrain’s Culture in a Khayyami style, and Pop art with Digital illustration. She participated in many group art exhibitions in and out of Bahrain.…
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Ghada Abu Hadid graduated from the American University in Cairo 1987. She has been displaying her art since 2014 and has been a part of various galleries ever since. She specializes in oil painting. She has several artworks collected in Egypt and abroad. Exhibitions:
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Fatma Ramadan Sayed, born in 1987, is a talented artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Minya University in 2009, majoring in the Graphics department. She has held several solo exhibitions, including shows in Spain, Italy, and Egypt. Notable exhibitions include “Breaking a Pattern” at Isis Gallery in 2019 and “Air Time” at Samah…
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(b.1967, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain) Ghada Khunji is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design and the International Center of Photography’s Documentary Program, both in New York. She started her career in the early nineties as a freelance photographer in the fashion industry in New York City, and spent two years as a research…
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Huda Lutf (b. Cairo, 1947) is a cultural, gender historian by professional training whose work in the field of the visual arts translates these affiliations in multiple complex ways. In 1983, she received her PhD in Arab Muslim Cultural History from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. A self-trained artist, Lutfi, began her practice during the mid-1990s,…
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Lina Osama (b. 1986, Cairo) is a figurative painter based in Cairo. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek and studied at the Salzburg Academy of Fine Arts in Austria from 2006-2009. She has shown her work in many solo shows in Cairo as well as participated in many international…
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Egyptian artist Mai Refky holds a Bachelor degree in painting from Helwan University’s Fine Arts in Cairo (1998), as well as her studies of Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo (1999-2000). She also holds a Traditional Islamic Arts and Crafts Diploma from Jameel House of Traditional Arts in Cairo (2013 –…
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Mariem Abutaleb is a lettering artist and graphic designer who is based in Cairo, Egypt. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from AUC, the American University in Cairo. Mariem believes in the power of writing as a visual language in delivering messages. Therefore, her work crystallizes the Arabic lettering as a strong expressive…
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Marianne Fahmy (b. 1992) is an Egyptian artist living and working in Alexandria, Egypt, whose works span film and installation. She earned her BA in Painting from Alexandria’s Fine Arts University, before joining the MASS Alexandria independent art program in 2016. Fahmy’s work has previously been shown at the Sharjah Bienniale (2023), the 7th Yokohama…
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Mona Marzouk was born in Alexandria (Egypt), and recently moved to Helsinki, Finland. She graduated in 1996 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. A painter and sculptor, her work has often taken the form of large site-specific murals sometimes incorporating animations. Marzouk has shown her work in solo exhibitions at Villa Romana,…
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Nada Elkalaawy (b.1995, Alexandria) is an Egyptian artist living and working in London. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art (2018) and BA in Fine Art from Kingston University (2016). She is predominantly a painter, but also works with drawing, animation, and tapestry. Elkalaawy recently had solo shows at…
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Nadia Mounier (b.1988, Cairo) is a visual artist working with photography and video. Her work is interested in representations of the self by exploring aspects of privacy, censorship, digital stagings, and body performance within the public and private spheres. As a cultural practitioner for the last 10 years, she is passionate about modes of collaboration,…