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Born in New York, 1968.
Currently lives and works in New York.
She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a Hasselblad Foundation grant. Her photographs are in major public and private collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, ... more »
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Born in 1977, Wahran, Algeria more »
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Born in Alabama, USA, 1972
Lives and works in Egypt more »
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Annabel Daou (b. 1967) is an artist whose recent solo exhibitions include "AMERICA" at Josee Bienvenu Gallery, in New York, "ideas about the thing and the thing itself" at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia,"The Last Painting Show" at the Conduit Gallery, in Dallas, TX, and "Fleshpots", at Entwistle Gallery, London. As a founding member of the ... more »
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Flavia Codsi is a painter who was born in Beirut in 1961 and continues to work there. Self-trained in painting and drawing, she earned a degree in interior design and worked in that field for several years. he entered the world of public art exhibitions by winning the Dorothy Salhab Kazemi prize at the Salon d'Automne of Sursock Museum in 1994. The following year she took special mention from the jury at the same Salon, and capped her success with the first prize in painting at the 1996 Salon. She also participated in numerous unconventional fora, such as Ashkal Alwan's ... more »
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Hamdi Attia was born in Assiut, Egypt in 1964. He studied at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo, and pursued advanced studies in painting and sculpture at the Egyptian Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Attia also received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Pennsylvania. He represented Egypt ... more »
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Hamed Nada was born in Cairo in 1924. After graduating from the College of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1951, he taught art to elementary school children in an old neighborhood in Islamic Cairo, and was then awarded a residency in the new studio program in Luxor. He taught painting at the College of Fine Arts in Alexandria from 1957-1960, and then travelled to Spain for a one year diploma program at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Upon his return from Spain, he was appointed as a professor of painting at the College of Fine Arts ... more »
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Kareem Risan is a painter and book artist who was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1960. He graduated from Baghdad University’s College of Fine Arts in 1988. He has had solo exhibitions in galleries and cultural centers in Baghdad and Jordan, and he has participated in many group exhibitions throughout the Middle East, in Europe (including the British Museum’s exhibition Word into Art), and most recently in the United States as part of the traveling exhibition Dafatir. Risan is the recipient of numerous prizes at exhibitions in Iraq, Egypt, and Tunis. He currently lives in exile between Jordan and Syria. more »
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Louay Kayyali was born in Aleppo in 1934. From 1956 to 1961, he studied decoration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Afterwards he joined the faculty at the Higher Institute for the Fine Arts in Damascus in 1962 with the honor of having been Syria's representative to the Venice Biennale in 1960 (with Fateh al-Mudaress). Although his teaching and productivity was limited to the brief period of 1962-1976, his impact on the younger generation of Syrians, not only artists but the wider "laboring masses," spread through traveling exhibitions, lectures, museum acquisitions, teaching in public institutions. He died tragically ... more »
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