This is a list of notable visual artists from, or associated with,

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Mohamed Abla Mohamed Abla is an Egyptian artist known for his paintings of abstract sceneries in Egypt. He was born in 1953 in Belqas, Mansoura in Northern Egypt, where he spent his childhood and went to school. In 1973, Abla moved to Alexandria, and joined the ...

(born 1953), painter * Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989), painter * Armen Agop (born 1969), sculptor *

Mariam A. Aleem Mariam A. Aleem (28 December 1930 – 26 April 2010) was an Egyptian artist and art professor specializing in printed design. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts Cairo in 1954 and her Master of Fine Arts in graphic pr ...

(1930–2010), painter * Doa Aly (born 1976), painter *

Ghada Amer Ghada Amer ( ar, غادة عامر, May 22 1963 in Cairo, Egypt) is a contemporary artist, much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies re ...

(born 1963), artist *

Sawsan Amer Sawsan Amer سوسن عامر (born 1937, Cairo) is an Egyptian painter and art educator, considered as a pioneer Egyptian woman artist. She has been Director of the Art Research Unit at thAcademy of the Artsand a professor on the faculty of Art ...

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Heba Amin Heba Y. Amin (born 1980) is a visual artist, researcher and educator. Early life and education Amin was born and raised in Cairo. She was educated at Cairo American College in Maadi. Amin moved to the United States in 1998 and studied Mathematics ...

(born 1980), artist *

Kamal Amin Kamal Amin Awad ( ar, كمال أمين عوض) (1923–1979) was a pioneering Egyptian artist in the field of graphic arts. The artist, whose masterpieces and unique techniques impressed Egyptian modern art, was born in Tanta in 1923. He was int ...

(1923–1979), graphic artist *

Evelyn Ashamallah Evelyn Ashamallah ( ar, إيفيلين عشم الله) is a female Coptic painter, born in Desouk, Kafr el-Sheikh, Egypt in 1948 to Ashamallah Eskandar Hanna and Elaine Mikhail Hanna. She graduated from the faculty of fine arts at Alexandria Uni ...

(born 1948), Coptic painter * Alaa Awad (born 1981), muralist, street art, painter * Islam el Azzazi, photographer and filmmaker

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* Clea Badaro (1913–1968), painter * George Bahgoury (born 1932), artist and caricaturist *

Lara Baladi Lara Baladi (born 1969 in Beirut, Lebanon) is an acclaimed Egyptian- Lebanese photographer, archivist and multimedia artist. She was educated in Paris and London and currently lives in Cairo. Baladi exhibits and publishes worldwide. Her body of ...

(born 1969), Egyptian-Lebanese multimedia artist * Bek, sculptor

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* Chico (born 1985 or 1986), graffiti and street artist

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* Dina Danish (born 1981), multimedia artist *

Yehia Dessouki Yehia Dessouki (Arabic: يحيى دسوقى; born 13 March 1978) is an Egyptian painter and visual artist making contemporary art using diverse kinds of media both traditional and digital. He is also an architect, who graduated from the faculty ...

(born 1978), digital and mixed media artist

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* Doaa El-Adl (born 1979), cartoonist *

Gamal El-Sagini Gamal El-Sagini (Arabic: جمال السجيني) (January 7, 1917 – November 19, 1977) was an Egyptian sculptor, painter and medalist. Childhood and Education Born on January 7, 1917, in Bab El Shaaria, a poor suburb of ''Cairo'', ''Egypt' ...

(1917–1977), sculptor *

Samir Elmesirri Samir Elmissiri is an Egyptian artist. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1941, and now lives in Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city ...

(born 1941), artist *

Ahmed Emad Eldin Ahmed Emad Eldin ( ar, أحمد عماد الدين) is an Egyptian digital artist who came to prominence as the designer of the sleeve of Pink Floyd's 2014 album ''The Endless River''. In 2015, Emad Eldin was chosen by Adobe for their "25 Under ...

(born 1996), digital artist

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* Hussein El Gebaly (1934–2014), painter *

Habib Gorgi Habib Gorgi (1892–1965) was an artist of the turn of the century pioneer generation of Egyptian modern art. He graduated from Teacher Training School then received a scholarship to England in 1920 to study pedagogic methods of art teaching, and ...

(1892–1965), landscape painter *

Sherin Guirguis Sherin Guirguis (born 1974 in Luxor, Egypt) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Guirguis has had solo exhibitions of her work at 18th Street Art Center (Santa Monica, California), The Third Line Gallery (Dubai), Shulamit Nazarian ...

(born 1974), contemporary artist

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Tahia Halim Tahia Mohammed Halim ( ar, تحية محمد حليم; September 9, 1919 – May 24, 2003) was an Egyptian painter. Tahia Halim was one of the pioneers of the Modern Expressive Movement in Egyptian Art in the 1960s, where she excelled in expre ...

(1919–2003), painter *

Nermine Hammam Nermine Hammam (born 1967) is an Egyptian artist who lives and works in Cairo and London. She was born in Cairo and later moved to England and then the United States in 1985. She received a BFA in film-making from the Tisch School of the Arts in ...

(born 1967), visual artist, photographer *

Fathi Hassan Fathi Hassan ( ar, فتحي حسن, born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born, Italian-based artist known for his installations involving the written word. Life Fathi Hassan was born in Cairo in 1957 as the second son to a Nubian family. His ...

(born 1957), installation artist *

Hassan Mohamed Hassan Hassan Mohamed Hassan (1906–1990) (full name is Hassan Mohamed Hassan el-Feky, ar, حسن محمد حسن الفقى) was one of the pioneers of Egyptian modern art from the second-wave such as Saeed elSadr (1909–1986) and Ahmed Osman. Hassan ...

(1906–1990), painter * Susan Hefuna (born 1962), visual artist * Adam Henein (1929-2020), sculptor * Menhat Helmy (1925-2004), painter and printmaker * Hassan Heshmat (1920–2006), sculptor * Mustafa Hussein (1935–2014), painter and cartoonist

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* Amal Kenawy (1974–2012), video and performance artist *

Hend Kheera Hend Kheera ( ar, هند خيرة) (born 1981) is an Egyptian street artist whose work features a mix of stencils and slogans. She is one of the leaders of Egypt's street-art boom since the 2011 uprising. Kheera has been an active participant i ...

(born 1981), street artist

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* Van Leo (1921–2002), photographer

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Mohamed Nagy Mohamed Nagy Ismail Afash (Arabic script: ); born 30 October 1984), known by his nickname Gedo (, , which means ''Grandpa'' in Egyptian Arabic), is an Egyptian footballer who plays for National Bank of Egypt in the Egyptian Premier League, as ...

(1888–1956), painter *

Mahmoud Mokhtar Mahmoud Mukhtar ( ar, محمود مختار) (May 10, 1891 – March 28, 1934) was an Egyptian sculptor. He attended the College of Fine Arts in Cairo upon its opening in 1908 by Prince Yusuf Kamal, and was part of the original "Pioneers" of the ...

(1891–1934), sculptor * Ahmed Morsi (born 1930), poet and painter * Ramzi Moustafa (1926-2015) visual artist in the

Hurufiyya movement The Hurufiyya movement ( ar, حروفية ''ḥurufiyyah'', adjectival form ''ḥurufī'', 'letters' (of the alphabet)) is an aesthetic movement that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century amongst Muslim artists, who used their unde ...

Ali, W., ''Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity,'' University of Florida Press, 1997, p. 167 *Miral Mokhtar (born 1996) visual artist

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Youssef Nabil Youssef Nabil was born on the 6th of November 1972. He is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Youssef Nabil began his photography career in 1992. Background Born in Cairo, Egypt, Nabil started his photography career in 1992, shortly before leavi ...

(born 1972), artist and photographer *

Ahmad Nady Ahmad Mohammad Nady ( ar, أحمد محمد نادي) is an Egyptian political cartoonist, comic artist and activist. Belonging to a family of artists, Nady began his career early on, steadily rising to become one of the best known comic artists ...

(born 1981), comic artist and cartoonist *

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 Ef ...

(1905–1994), artist * Sabah Naim (born 1967), multimedia artist * Margaret Nakhla (1908–1977), painter * Moataz Nasr (born 1961), painter and sculptor

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Senewosret-Ankh Senewosret-Ankh (or Sesostris-Ankh, Senusret-Ankh) was ''High Priest of Ptah'' in Memphis, Egypt, Memphis, ''Royal Sculptor'', and ''Builder'' likely during the time of Senusret I of the 12th Dynasty. His mastaba was discovered in 1933 near the ...

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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 Fa ...

(born 1925), painter * Nadia Sirry (born 1958), painter *

Sherif Sonbol Sherif Sonbol (born December 6, 1956) is an Egyptian photographer specializing in architecture, scenic fine arts and photojournalism. Early life Sonbol was born in Giza, Cairo, Egypt. He studied insurance at Cairo University and attended the C ...

(born 1956), photographer

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Nazir Tanbouli Nazir Tanbouli (born 1971) is an Egyptian born artist. He was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt and studied at the University of Alexandria Faculty of Fine Arts. His uncle is the painter Ibrahim El-Tanbouli (b. 1954) and his great uncle was the ...

(born 1971), mural painter *

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, Tare ...

(born 1989), painter and muralist *

Arto Tchakmaktchian Arto Tchakmakchian ( hy, Արտո Չաքմաքչյան, (26 June 1933 – 1 October 2019) was a Canadian-Armenian sculptor and painter, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He was awarded by the Armenian Order of Honor in 2015. Bio ...

(1933-2019), painter and sculptor *

Thutmose Thutmose (also rendered Thutmoses, Thutmosis, Tuthmose, Tutmosis, Thothmes, Tuthmosis, Thutmes, Djhutmose, Djehutymes, etc.) is an Anglicization of the Ancient Egyptian personal name ''dhwty-ms'', usually translated as "Born of the god Thoth". Th ...

, sculptor * Diane Tuckman, silk artist

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* Dom Hubert van Zeller (1905–1984), writer and sculptor

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Adham Wanly Adham Wanly ( ar, إبراهيم أدهم إسماعيل محمد وانلي) (25 February 1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 20 December 1959) was an Alexandrian painter who learnt in the atelier of the Italian Otorino Becchi 1932, then set up ...

(1908–1959), painter *

Seif Wanly Mohammed Seif al-Din Wanly ( ar, محمد سيف الدين اسماعيل محمد وانلي), most commonly referred to simply as Seif Wanly () (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter. Early life and career Wanly was ...

(1906–1979), painter

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Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...

Egyptian 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 ...