Archives: Artists
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Nagat M.A. Elmahi is an accomplished educationist, painter, and designer with over 20 years of experience. She is a British of Sudanese origin, born and raised in El-Fasher, Sudan. She currently doubles up as a lecturer and the head of the painting department at the College of Fine and Applied Art (CFAA) at Sudan University.…
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Cham Chahda is a Syrian/ Canadian artist and pianist born in 1982 into a family of artists. Her parents were both established artists in their own right, and they nurtured Cham’s artistic talents from an early age. Encouraged by her father’s love for classical music, Cham began taking piano lessons and quickly discovered a talent…
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Rana Hatmal’s experience as an architect influences the construction and design of her art. Her use of space is minimalistic yet sufficient to express the richness of her inspirations. As a result, her work juxtaposes complementarity and contrast between the subjects depicted and the colors used. This duality originates in the older religions of the…
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Born in Damascus, Syria, in 1977, Sulafa Hijazi is a Berlin-based director and interdisciplinary artist. She studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria, majoring in dramatic studies, and at the Städelschule Contemporary Fine Art Academy in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. With a background in theater, animation, conceptual art, and films, she has…
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Valia Abou AlFadel, a distinguished Syrian artist known for her proficiency in illustration and creative art direction, has made significant contributions to the world of visual arts. A graduate of “The High Institute of Fine Arts and civil preparatory education,” Valia is a proud member of the Union of Plastic Artists in Syria and holds…
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Born in Damascus in 1990, she graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2013. Her surrealist paintings focus on the human body and its relationship with war, whether with distorted parts, abstract shapes, or as composite elements in hybrid shapes. After her graduation, Waad exhibited in several joint exhibitions and workshops in…
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Emna Zghal is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. She was trained in both Tunisia and the United States and has shown her work in both countries and beyond. Her images of vast imagined spaces echo the patterns of nature and their infinite variety. And while the colors of her paintings, drawings and prints are surreal, they…
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Hela Lamine, born in 1984, is a Tunisian multidisciplinary artist and a teacher at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse. She lives and works in Tunis. Since 2010, she has been developing a hybrid practice that centers around the human being and what they consume: food, social networks, politics, culture, tradition, identity, and…
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Self-taught artist, Khedija Essaied Jeddi (1976), looks at the world through the eyes of an eternal child. The artist uses her sensitivity to subjects, some of which are recurring in her reflection, to deliver narrative work, mixing texts, embroidery, painting and pastels. Her artistic work is constructed and fleshed out mainly around issues that are…
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Born in 1994 – Based in Tunis Harrabi is a visual artist, editor, documentary filmmaker and cultural practitioner. After several experiences in different cultural media in Tunisia as a journalist, video creator, chief editor and communication manager, she found her path in audiovisual collaborations with artists and young artistic collectives in Tunisia and abroad. In…
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Wiame Haddad (1987) is a Tunisian, Moroccan and French artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the ESAD in Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. Her artistic work takes on the scope of a photographic and cinematographic study, constituting ethical and formal research. This research is…
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Born in Istanbul in 1961, Gonul Nuhoglu is an accomplished Turkish artist who currently resides and works in Istanbul. Her educational journey began at Boğaziçi University, where she pursued Management, graduating in 1983. Subsequently, she expanded her academic horizons by completing her studies in English at Marmara University in 1988. In 2023, she further enriched…
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Gözde İlkin (b. 1981, Kütahya) uses painting and stitching to create works on repurposed domestic fabrics. Solo shows include The Eye of the Earth, The Mouth of the Ground (2022); Entrusted Ground, artSümer, Istanbul (2022); The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer,…
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b. 1985, Dubai, UAELives and works in Dubai. Latifa is a Dubai-based multidisciplinary artist who graduated from Zayed University with a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and Sciences in 2007. She obtained the Emerging Artist Fellowship by the Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation in partnership with Rhode Island School of Design in 2019 in the…
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Hanan Abdullah Salem Bahamdan is a portrait painter who has exhibited all over the Middle East and Europe. In 2005 she became Sotheby’s first female Saudi artist when her oil portrait painting Mannci sold at three times its top estimate, at the auction house’s first sale of modern and contemporary Arab and Iranian art. Thus,…