Category: Egypt
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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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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…
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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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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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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…