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Heba Khereba is an Egyptian visual artist whose public artist account brings together expressive portraiture, figurative painting and richly coloured narrative scenes. This profile presents a focused, clearly sourced selection.
Unclaimed profileWael Shawky is an Egyptian artist based in Alexandria whose practice moves across film, drawing, performance and installation. His projects often use layered storytelling and constructed histories to revisit how collective narratives are formed.
Unclaimed profileGhada Amer is an Egyptian-born artist whose practice brings painting into dialogue with embroidery, sculpture and installation. Her work is known for treating stitched line, repeated imagery and the conventions of painting as interconnected visual languages.
Unclaimed profileYoussef Nabil is an Egyptian artist working with hand-coloured photography and film. His carefully staged portraits and cinematic images connect contemporary subjects with the atmosphere and visual memory of classic Egyptian cinema.
Unclaimed profileHuda Lutfi is a Cairo-based Egyptian visual artist and cultural historian. Her mixed-media practice draws on found objects, photography, collage and installation to assemble images that connect personal memory with wider cultural histories.
Unclaimed profileBasim Magdy is an Egyptian artist working across film, photography, painting, works on paper and installation. His practice combines vivid colour and speculative, often surreal narratives that consider memory, time and imagined futures.
Unclaimed profileHeba Y. Amin is an Egyptian artist and researcher whose mixed-media practice includes film, photography, performance and installation. Her projects use archival material and speculative methods to examine technology, territory and the politics of historical narratives.
Unclaimed profileGanzeer is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, design, street art, installation and comics. He shifts media according to the subject, bringing graphic precision and public-facing storytelling into the same practice.
Unclaimed profileAya Tarek is an Egyptian painter and multidisciplinary artist from Alexandria. Her practice moves between studio painting, murals, film collaborations and newer digital forms while maintaining a strong interest in colour, public space and experimentation.
Unclaimed profileMohamed Abla is an Egyptian artist whose long-running practice includes painting, sculpture and printmaking. His work moves between figurative, expressionist and semi-abstract approaches, often returning to Egyptian landscapes, cities and everyday life.
Unclaimed profileHassan Khan is an Egyptian artist, musician and writer based in Cairo. His multidisciplinary practice brings together sound, music, video, performance, photography and architectural installation, often testing how cultural forms circulate through public and private life.
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