[Education]
1999/2004: B.A, Faculty of Arts, Painting Department, Alexandria University.
[Workshops & residences]
2008: RADIUS Residency, Funen Art Academy, Denmark.
2008: Gasworks Residency, London, U.K.
2006: Sally and Lucas Artists Residency Program, Montalvo Arts Center, California, U.S.A.
-Artist in residence, F+F School for Art and Media Design, Zurich, Switzerland.
2005: AIWA, International Artists Workshop, Aley, Lebanon. [Catalog]
[Solo Shows]
2008: MKMAEL (An Image Passionate), Makan, Amman, Jordon.
2007: 15 Minutes of Acting as if I’m in My House, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
2006: 15 Minutes of Acting as if I‘m in My House, Oberwellt, Stuttgart, Germany.
2002: Mashrabia gallery for contemporary art, Cairo.
[Selected group exhibitions & Projects]
2008: As if you weren't in your own House, (TALES AROUND THE PAVEMENT: CHAPTER TWO), curated by A .Hamza and E . Molnar, CIC, Cairo, Egypt.
2007: “All Clear” curated by Hemma Schmutz, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria.
-“? No Condition is Permanent?”, curated by Rayelle Niemann, Makan, Amman, Jordan.
-Re/Arranged Marriage # 1, California, “Out of Place”, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2006: Wikislamkitsch, “1st Biennial of the Canaries”, curated by Antonio Zaya, Canary Islands, Spain. [Catalog]
- My House is my studio and my studio is my house, "Actual Position-2", curated by Helen Hirsch, Kulturzentrum NAIRS, Switzerland.
-San Simon re-construction, 5th artistic bridge, Hermitage Park, la source du lion, Casablanca, Morocco. [Catalog]
-I Love my Pillow, "PRASENTATIONEN DER PROGR_AIR", PROGR-zentrum fur kulturproduktion, Bern, Switzerland.
2005: I am not here, here I am, "Actual Position", curated by Helen Hirsch, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary art, Cairo, Egypt.
-Autoportrait of three artists after talking until dawn, "INSULARITIES", (curated by Elke Dem Moore), Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany. (In collaboration with Sylvia Winkler & Stefan Koperl).
2004: Autoportrait of three artists after talking until dawn, "Dar Al Hewar/3", Goethe institute Cairo/Alexandria, Egypt. (In collaboration with Sylvia Winkler & Stefan Koperl). [Catalog]
-Two Single Rooms,"NOUBAR/2 project", (curated by Stefania Angarano), Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt. (With Pascal Favre). [Catalog]
2003: She Likes Cairo and Cairo..."15th Salon Of Young Artists", Palace Of Arts Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. [Catalog]
2001:“2nd NITAQ”, organized by galleries of contemporary art, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt.
[Catalogues & books]
2006: 1st Canary Islands Biennale, catalog.
- The Active Artist, FAHRT publication no 2, Ed Omar Alessandro, Switzerland.
- "A:IWA-Artists International Workshop Aley 2005".
2005: "NOUBAR-projects 2004", Ed Stefania Angarano, Mashrabia gallery editions.
2004: "Autoportrait of three artists after talking until dawn" catalogue.
[Selected Bibliography]
2007: Kira Shewfelt, “Public, private and all the spaces in between”, The Dailey Star Egypt, Feb 28.
- Nevine Lamei, “Territoires reconquis”, Al Ahram Hebdo, no 650.
- Anjali Gupta, “A Tale of Two Cities…or How I Learned To Love West Nile Virus”, Glasstire, Jan.
2006: Bassam El Baroni,” MKMAEL has just joined the room”, Bidoun, issue 9.
- Alfred Borter, "Zurich als Quelle der Inspiration", Zurcher Unterlander,18. Feb, ++ Mitelland Zeitung, 27. Feb, ++ Zurichsee-Zeitungen, 3.March.
2005: Dina Kabil, "Brassage d'identite", Al Ahram Hebdo, no 584.
- kaelen Wilson-Goldie, "Aiwa! Artists head for higher ground", THE DAILY STAR, no 11,814.
2004: Dina Kabil, "Chambres avec veues", Al Ahram Hebdo, no 526.
- Aida Nasr, "On the Move", Egypt Today, VOLUM 6, no 10.
2003: Richard Woffenden, "Best of Arts" Cairo times, volum 7, issue17.
2002: Francesca Sullivan, "Mahmoud Khaled", Egypt's Insight, volum 6, no 10.
- Nevine Lamei, "Changements de Lieu", Al Ahram hebdo,no 422.
- Richard Woffenden, "Landscape with the Difference", Cairo Times, volum 6, issue 29.
2001: Fatma Aly, "Artists in nitaq", Al kahira, no 52.
[Lectures/Talks/Presentations]
2006: ”Artist Talk”, American Cultural Center, Alexandria, Egypt, December.
2006: “The Document as Image and Space”, Montalvo Arts Center, California, U.S.A, September.
2006: “The Artist and The Image Between The Presentation and Re-Presentation” CIC/Contemporary Image Center, Cairo, Egypt, May.
2006: “Artist Talk”, F+F School for Media Arts & Design, Zurich, Switzerland, February.
