GHADA AMER

Ghada Amer (b. 1963, Cairo) moved with her family from Cairo to France in 1974, where she completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies in painting at Villa Arson (École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Nice). In the mid-1990s, she settled in the United States where she continues to live and work. Some of Amer’s selected solo exhibitions include Ghada Amer, The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM), Marseille (2022); Today 70% of the Poor in the World are Women, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco (2020); Ceramics, Knots, Thoughts, Scraps, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (2018); Ghada Amer, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2012); Failing Sharazad, Dirimart Nişantaşı, Istanbul (2009) and Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2008). Her selected group exhibitions include What is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2023); All Things Being Equal, Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Zeitz (2019); Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2018); Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi (2014) and Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006). Ghada Amer participated in various biennials, including Desert X (2021); The Rabat Biennale (2019); La Biennale di Venezia (2007); 5th Biennale of Sydney (2006); 5th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale (2000); Gwangju Biennale (2000); Whitney Biennial (2000) and the 4th International Istanbul Biennial (1995). Her works are part of leading global art collections including The Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit and Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis. The artist was awarded the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Ghada Amer lives and works in New York.

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