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List Of Egyptian Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Egypt or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989), painter, activist *Mariam A. Aleem (1930–2010), printed design artist * Doa Aly (born 1976), contemporary artist *Ghada Amer (born 1963), contemporary artist, based in New York * Sawsan Amer (active since 1970s), artist, educator *Heba Amin (born 1980), artist, educator *Evelyn Ashamallah (born 1948), Coptic painter B * Clea Badaro (1913–1968), painter * Lara Baladi (born 1969), Egyptian-Lebanese photographer, multimedia artist D * Dina Danish (born 1981), French-born Egyptian multimedia artist G * Sherin Guirguis (born 1974), contemporary artist H *Tahia Halim (1919–2003), painter *Nermine Hammam (born 1967), filmmaker, graphic designer, painter, photographer * Amira Hanafi (born 1979), American/Egyptian poet and artist active in electronic literature * Susan Hefuna (born 1962), German-Egyptian visual artist * Helena of Egyp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iman Issa
Iman Issa (born 1979) is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large. Issa has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her most notable shows include the solo exhibition, Iman Issa: Heritage Studies' at MACBA, Barcelona, Iman Issa: Heritage Studies'at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), and Material' at Rodeo, Istanbul. Her videography has been featured at the Transmediale, Transmediale, Berlin, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Tate Modern, London, Spacex, Exeter, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and Bidoun Artists' Cinema. She lectures at the New School and is currently a part-time professor at the Cooper Union School of the Arts, Cooper Union's School of Arts. Issa lives and works between Cairo and New York City. Early life and education Iman Issa was born in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt in 1979. In 2001, she completed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Women Artists By Nationality
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Egyptian Women Artists
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of recorded history ** Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt * Egypt, the modern country in northeastern Africa ** Egyptian Arabic, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see Demographics of Egypt * Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC ** Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt ** Ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural structure style ** Ancient Egyptian cuisine, the cuisine of ancient Egypt ** Egyptian language, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family * Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority ** Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aya Tarek
Aya Tarek ( ar, آية طارق) is an Egyptian artist from the city of Alexandria. Tarek's mediums are primarily street art or graffiti and paint. Although street art in Egypt gained much international attention after the 2011 revolution, Tarek began sharing her street art on the walls of Alexandria in 2008, when she was 18. Tarek also produces indoor murals which she feels helps her in to be taken more seriously as an artist. However, she utterly stresses the importance of street art because it is accessible to anyone to take whatever they may need to from the work. Life She was born in 1989, her grandfather was a craftsman. In 2008, she began graffiti. Career Tarek is seen by many as the first androgynous street artist in Egypt. She was in a film by Ahmed Abdallah called ''Microphone'', which explores Alexandria’s art scene leading up to the 2011 revolution In one of her own pieces, "How to Fuck Your Mind", Tarek portrays a graffiti artist’s instant rise and fall from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Sirry
Nadia Baher Sirry ( ar, نادية سري) is a Cairo-born painter of Turkish-Lebanese descent, born in 1958. Life Sirry is a graduate of Ain Shams University. She worked for a time at the British Institute in Egypt before devoting herself full-time to her artistic career. She currently lives and works in Cairo. Membership *Member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts. *Member of the National Society of Fine Arts. *Member of Cairo Atelier – union of artists and writers. *Member of Fine Art Lovers Society. *Member of Art Companions Group. *Member of the Egyptian Arts Preservation Society. Private Exhibitions *Shadicor art gallery (Reality and Fantasy) March 2006 *Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center (Tangible Dreams) April 2006 *The Russian Cultural Center in Alexandria (Between Contemplation and Dreams) August 2006 *Ewart Gallery the American University in Cairo ( Contemplation of the Heart) March 2007 * Alexandria Center of Arts (Touches) August 2007 *The Syndicate of Journalists (Bic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gazbia Sirry
Gazbia Sirry ( ar, جاذبية سري) (11 October 1925 – 10 November 2021) was an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts at the Higher Institute of Art Education for Women Teachers in 1950 (currently known as the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University), where her dissertation traced Egypt's political history. She later became a professor there, and also at the American University in Cairo. She has had more than 50 personal exhibitions, official purchases by international museums, international prizes, scholarships and university chairs. The paintings of Sirry capture the relationship between social reform, feminist consciousness and advocacy of women. Because of their eclecticism and heterogeneity of modern Egypt, Sirry's paintings were widely celebrated. Her early work was dominated by images of women in unmistakable poses of power, performing roles in the public and private spheres, and celebrating female unity. In the late 1950s, Sirry mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khadiga Riad
Khadiga Riad (; 1914–1981), was an Egyptian painter, sculptor, and jewelry designer. She was the first Egyptian woman to exhibit abstract artwork, and was associated with the surrealist movement. Riad has many variations in the spelling of her name in English, including Khadija Riyad, and Khadiga Riaz. Early life and education Khadiga Riad was born in 1914 in Cairo, Sultanate of Egypt (now Egypt). She was the daughter of Hamed El-Alailly, and granddaughter of poet, Ahmed Shawqi. Between 1950 until 1955, she studied under Armenian painter Ashot Zorian, and also studied at College de La Mere de Dieu in Cairo. At some point she changed her last name from Riaz (or Riyad), to Riad. Career In the late-1930s, Riad had opened her home for a meeting location for the Art et Liberté group of artists, which included Georges Henein, Ramses Younan, Fouad Kamel, and Kamel el-Telmissany Kamel el-Telmissany (1915-1972) was an Egyptian artist and filmmaker most commonly associated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Nakhla
Marguerite Nakhla ( ar, مرجريت نخلة) was a modern Egyptian painter (1908–1977), born on December 10, 1908, in Alexandria, Egypt. Early life and education Because of her gender, Nakhla was not allowed to attend the newly established Egyptian School of Fine Arts. Instead she attended an all-girls school, taught in French and operated by nuns. After completing her primary education, Nakhla attended Pedagogic Arts Institute for Women Teachers before deciding to study art at the École nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. She graduated from the Paris art school in 1939 and returned to Egypt, where she taught and exhibited her own art for the next nine years. Career In 1948, Nakhla returned to Paris to continue her studies at the École du Louvre. She would remain in Paris for another three years while she studied graphic arts, fresco painting, and continued to exhibit her work. Nakhla's work was even acquired by the Egyptian Embassy in Paris. Nakhla continu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multimedia Artist
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which features little to no interaction between users. Popular examples of multimedia include video podcasts, audio slideshows and animated videos. Multimedia also contains the principles and application of effective interactive communication such as the building blocks of software, hardware, and other technologies. Multimedia can be recorded for playback on computers, laptops, smartphones, and other electronic devices, either on demand or in real time (streaming). In the early years of multimedia, the term "rich media" was synonymous with interactive multimedia. Over time, hypermedia extensions brought multimedia to the World Wide Web. Terminology The term ''multimedia'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabah Naim
Sabah Naim (born 1967) is a contemporary Egyptian multimedia artist. Her work focuses on documenting people and scenes in Cairo, Egypt, and incorporates street photography, painting, collage, embroidery, and video art. Biography Naim received a bachelor of fine arts (1990), master of fine arts (1996), and PhD in contemporary art (2003) from the College of Art Education, Cairo, where she was a student of Mohammed Abla. She was the first person in her family to receive an advanced degree, and used proceeds from sales of her art to support her parents and brothers. Naim has served on the faculty of art education at both Helwan University and her alma mater. Process and work Taking inspiration from the anonymous environment of Cairo's busy streets, Naim's primary artistic process begins with photographing or filming people in public settings. She typically enlarges these figures to life-size or greater when printing her work in black-and-white on paper or canvas. Installed in a gall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Effat Nagy
Effat Nagy ( ar, عفت ناجي. Nagi, Effat Naghi, or Effat Nagui) (5 April 1905 – 4 October 1994) was an Egyptian artist who has a museum in Cairo devoted to her and her husband's works. The museum is called ''Museum of Saad El-Khadem and Effat Nagy''.Museum of Saad El-Khadem and Effat Nagy cuipcairo.org, Retrieved 16 September 2015 Life Effat Mousa Nagy was born in the Mediterranean port of in 1905. She was fascinated by culture and she was trained in music and mathematics. She was taught art by a private tutor and her artistic brother |
