Biography
Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco (CA), US, 2006-2008
Bachelor of Arts in Art, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, EG, 2000-2005
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, GB, International Art History Summer School, 2004
Teaching activities
Part-time Tutor, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL, 2012-present
AKV/St. Joost, Den Bosch, NL,
Residencies and workshops
PiST///, BKVB, Istanbul, TR, 2011, 2012
ResO Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte, Poirino, Italy, May-June 2011
CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR, 2010 (workshop)
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 2009-2010
Fellowships/stipends
2011 BKVB Startstipendium, NL
2010 Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ICE), NL
2009 Institut Français des Pays-Bas
2009 Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting, NL
2008 Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin (CA), US, Headlands Graduate Fellowship
Awards
2012 Finalist Celeste Prize, Rome IT (winner to be announced in December)
2012 Finalist illy Art Rotterdam Prize with Barbara Seiler Gallery
2011 Winner illy Present Future award , Artissima 18with Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, curated by Chris Fitzpatrick (jury was made of international museum directors and curators: Anne Ellegood - senior curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Tessa Giblin, visual art curator, Projects Art Centre, Dublin; Beatrix Ruf, executive, Kunsthalle Zurich)
2008 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, San Francisco (CA), US, finalist
2008 Barclay Simpson Award, San Francisco (CA), US, recipient
2007 SFMOMA, San Francisco (CA), US,
2005 National Art Competition, Cairo, EG, first prize
2000 American University in Cairo, Cairo, EG,
