Archives: Artists
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(1930 – 2015) Derrieh Fakhoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1930. 1946-1951 Studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Beirut. in 1955, Fakhoury won a prize upon an exhibition organized by the Ministry of National Culture and Fine Arts in Beirut. Later, she was granted a scholarship to Italy to continue her studies…
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(1913 – 1968) An Egyptian painter and designer who lived most of her adult life in Alexandria, Egypt. Early life and education Badaro was born in Cairo in 1913, on the island of Zamalek. After the death of her Greek mother, her father, who was a lawyer and businessman, took his two daughters, Jeanne and…
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(1947 – 2015) Asma el Bakry was born in Cairo to an aristocratic and community-oriented family. Her maternal grandfather, Sakakini Pasha, is known to have established the Sakakini quarter in El Zaher district in Cairo, the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo. She moved to Alexandria, however, as…
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(1929 – 2004)A Moroccan painter. Chaïbia was born in Choutka, a small village near El Jadida, Morocco in 1929. At the age of 13, she was sent to Casablanca by her parents to marry a 70-year-old man. By the age of 14 she had given birth to a son (Hocein), and by the age of…
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(1912 – 2011) Of Lebanese origin and nourished by the resplendence of our fiery sun, our starry skies and our landscapes full of light, Blanche Lohéac Ammoun left at a very early age to encounter the Occident. And there, in this sensitive spirit, was the union of the poetry of the Orient and the thought…
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(1940 – 2009) Born in Essaouira in 1940, Benhila Regraguia was a self-taught artist and one of the few spontaneous artists. She entered the world of visual arts by chance, and the theme of love had a significant impact on her, guiding her into the realm of visual art. Despite the challenges from her conservative…
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(1931 – 1998) Baya Mahieddine or (Fatima Haddad) is an Algerian artist who did not self-identify as belonging to a particular art genre, but critics have classified her paintings as being surrealist, primitive, naïve, and modern. Her works are mainly paintings, though she did pottery as well, all completely self-taught. Born in 1931 in Fort…
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Rania Atef is a visual artist and researcher living in Cairo, Egypt. She holds a BA degree in Applied Arts from Helwan University (Egypt), was enrolled in TASAWAR curatorial studies program (Tunis), and participated in MASS Alexandria’s independent studio and study program(Alexandria). She is a co-founder K-oh-llective, an online platform that provides resources and facilitates…
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Nourhan Maayouf is an Egyptian visual artist who works with photography and video. In 2022, She obtained her MA in Arts in Public Spheres, from the Valais school of art (EDHEA), in Switzerland. She participated in many local and international group exhibitions such as 13th Bamako Biennale in (2022), Cairo Video Festival in (2019) and…
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Iraqi London-based painter, ceramist, and sculptor who grew up between the USA (1955-68), Baghdad, where Architecture studies took place in the 1970s, and London where residence has been established since 1982, with intermittent stays in Paris. This diverse background significantly influenced the artist’s creative output. Within an aesthetic shaped by architectural discipline, a network of…
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Bahia Shehab is an artist and author based in Cairo. She is Professor of design and founder of the graphic design program at The American University in Cairo where she developed a full design curriculum focused on the visual culture of the Arab world. She frequently lectures internationally on Arab visual culture and design education,…
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Engie also known as Jojja is anEgyptian multidisciplinary artist based in both Cairo and New York City. She studied fine arts at Parsons the School Design in New York and ever since graduating from the program, she has been moving between Cairo and New York, finding inspiration that feeds into her body of work. Her…
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Engy Aly (b. Cairo, 1982) is a graphic designer with an MFA from the Basel School of Design (HGK FHNW/UIC). Aly mainly focuses on cultural commissions including posters, catalogues and artist monographs. She is also the initiator and organizer of several workshops, exhibitions and events revolving around design and visual culture in Cairo and elsewhere.…
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Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, archivist and educator recognized internationally for her multidisciplinary works. Her artistic practice spans from photography, video, sculpture to architecture and multi-media installations. Informed by critical investigations into historical archives and the study of popular visual culture, Baladi’s work questions the theoretical divide between myth, memory, socio-political narratives and the…
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Esraa Elfeky (born. 1989) is an Egyptian multimedia artist working with video, sculpture, drawing, sound, and installation. Her work unearths the complex relationships that exist between the natural world, the body, time, and the urban environment. For the past five years, Elfeky has navigated themes such as the apocalypse, decay, and resurrection as an ongoing…