Archives: Artists
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“Since I “re/came” to settle in Algeria in 2015, I have been developing a practice as a graphic designer, artist, trainer and cultural practitioner. Through my medium which is graphic design, I experiment with cartography, lettering and editing. I created with Riad Hamed Abdelouahab a graphic studio called “Chimbo” (wild cactus growing on the side of…
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Mais al Azab is a Jordanian architect and artist. Her ink inscriptions art represents an exploration of the surface space in a manner that veers between constrains of idealized geometrical orders and the beauty of imperfection as it emerges from the handwriting process. She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture with first-class honors from…
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Cléa Rekhou (b. 1988, Paris) is a French-Algerian visual storyteller based in Algiers, Algeria. She grew up in a housing estate on the Paris outskirts and faced social challenges that today nourish her work, her motive and the genesis of most of her projects. After graduating from college with a master degree in Corporate Finance,…
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Katherine Bakhoum, of Franco-Egyptian heritage, has been a longtime Safarkhan resident artist, having held near-annual exhibitions with us since 1998. Bakhoum’s artistic style is a marriage of her multicultural upbringing, which saw her spend her childhood years in Egypt, before later moving to her also-native France. Bakhoum is renowned above all as an expert colorist,…
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Neama El Sanhoury’s upbringing in what she describes as a cultured household is primarily what cultivated her profound appreciation and commitment to rectifying Egypt’s wealth of historical and civilizational customs and heritage. Naturally, El Sanhoury pursued her studies in a similar direction, specifically in applied arts as well as Egyptology, archaeology and art therapy in…
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Born in Alexandria in 1965, Dr. Amal Nasr graduated top of her class with a BA in Fine Arts with a specialization in painting in 1988 from Alexandria University. She was appointed as a teaching assistant in the photography department upon graduation, and gained a master’s in photography in 1993. She earned her doctorate of…
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(1909 – 2009) Kawkab was born in Shubra in 1909. After graduating from Al Saniyyah school in 1929, she left for England to study at the Hornsey school of Art in north London as the recipient of a scholarship. Following her graduation from university in 1934, with diplomas in painting and drawing, Kawkab returned to…
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(1936 – 1978) The lesser known of the Efflatoun sisters, Zohra like her half-sister Inji, was raised in an artistic and aristocratic family. Zohra lived in Alexandria, and studied under the patronage of their esteemed pioneer painters Adham (1908-1959) and Seif Wanly (1906-1979). She was an active participant in the local art scene, exhibiting several…
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Born in 1992 in Bizerte, Asma Ben Aissa lives and works in Tunis. In her work, Asma is fundamentally interested in the landscape as an aesthetic concept, where experimentation serves her art. Her work explores themes of habitat, transmission, architecture, interior and exterior spaces, social transformations, and local heritage, echoing the relationship between environmental construction…
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Rima Rezaiguia simultaneously pursues her career as an architect, managing an engineering firm, and her work as a visual artist. Born in Annaba in 1985, Rima Rezaiguia joined the Higher School of Plastic Arts in Nord-Pas de Calais and graduated with a DNAP in 2016. She participated in several exhibitions in Annaba and Algiers. “This…
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Mesbah Nesma (Jewee), is an Illustrator, graphic designer and author based in Algiers, Algeria. She illustrate stories for children using bright and playful colours, shapes and textures. On the other hand, she writes, illustrate and documents stories inspired by her city “Algiers”, her friends and her own experience a young adult. She published two graphic…
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Maral Der Boghossian is Lebanese artist, born in 1976 in Paris from Armenian origin. She lives and works in Beirut and comes from a family of artists: her late mother Gulen (1951-2022) is sculptor, her late maternal uncle Haroutioun Torossian (1933-2022) is a painter and her father, a landscape painter. Their support had shaped her…
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Shayma Aziz is a New York-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work centralises and rethinks the feminine diasporic body, its representation in mythology and its multifaceted existence in the modern world. Born in Asyut, Egypt, Aziz’s artistic approach is informed by her study of ancient Egyptian art, film and international contemporary practices. She obtained her BFA in…
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Nasrin Abu Baker is a multifaceted artist who works with various media, such as installations, paintings, and video art. Her artistic expression is influenced by her use of diverse materials, such as ready-made objects, industrial materials, textiles, tar, threads, wood, photographs, lighting, and more. Her works invite the viewers to enter a unique world that…
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The famous Palestinian artist was born on March 16th 1935in the town of Jaffa in Palestine. At the age of 13, in 1948, shewas among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that witnessed the tragedy of being forced out of their homes andtowns by Jewish forces in order to create Israel. In 1959 Tamam Al-Akhal married…