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Ghada Amer Biography
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1963 |
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Born: in Cairo, Egypt
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1989 |
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MFA in Painting, Villa Arson EPIAR, Nice, France
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1991 |
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Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique, Paris, France
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1997 |
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Received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
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1999 |
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Received the UNESCO award at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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Lives and works in New York, NY
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou , Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
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2009
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Ghada Amer, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
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2008
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Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh: collaborative drawings, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
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2008
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Ghada Amer /Reza Farkhondeh: a new Collaboration on paper Singapore Tyler Institute, Singapore (solo)
Ghada Amer: Love has no end, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh: collaborative drawings, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh:collaborative drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Ghada Amer: another spring, Kukje gallery, Korea (solo)
Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy (solo)
An Indigestible Dessert, A video in collaboration with Reza Farkhondeh, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
Ghada Amer, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy (solo)
La Biennale di Venizia, Venice, Italy
Checklist, Global Feminisims, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
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2007
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Ghada Amer: another spring, Kukje gallery, Korea (solo)
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2007
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Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy (solo)
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2007
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An Indigestible Dessert, A video in collaboration with Reza Farkhondeh, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan Italy (solo)
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2007
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Ghada Amer (curated by D. Eccher), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy (solo)
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2007
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La Biennale di Venizia 52nd, Checklist, Luanda Pop (curated by Fernando Alvim (Angola, Simon Njami (Cameroon), African Pavillion, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
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2007
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Global Feminisims, (curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin), Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
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2006
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Word into Art, British Museum, London, England
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2006
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Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sidney, Australia
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2006
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Ghada Amer: Paintings & RFGA Drawings (curated by J. Poodt), The Stedlijk Museum 'S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (solo)
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2006
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Ghada Amer: Breathe into me, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
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2006
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Without Boundary, Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Word into Art, British Museum, London, UK
Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sidney, Australia
Ghada Amer: Paintings & RFGA Drawings, The Stedlijk Museum, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (solo)
Ghada Amer: Breathe into me, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2005
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The Reign of Terror, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (solo)
Always a Little Further, 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
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2005
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Always a Little Further (curated by Rosa Martinez), 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
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2004
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Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, France
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2004
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Le Opere e i Giorni, La Vanitas, (curated by A. Bonito Oliva), Certosa di Sab Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
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2004
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Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
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2004
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Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (solo)
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2004
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Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (solo
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2004
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Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, France
Le Opere e i Giorni, La Vanitas, Certosa di Sab Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (solo)
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
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2003
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Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY
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2002
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Ghada Amer, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2002
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Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England (solo
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2001
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The Short Century, (curated by Okwri Enwezor) Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany.
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2001
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Encyclopedia of Pleasure, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
The Short Century, Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
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2000
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Kwangju Biennial, South Korea
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2000
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Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
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2000
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Friends & Neighbors, EV+A 2000, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
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2000
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Ghada Amer (curated by A.J. Laferrière), Centre Culturel Contemporain (C.C.C.), Tours, France (solo)
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2000
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Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
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2000
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Leaving the Island, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Friends & Neighbors, EV+A 2000, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
Ghada Amer, Centre Culturel Contemporain (C.C.C.), Tours, France (solo)
Ghada Amer Drawings, Anadil Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel (solo)
Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2000
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Whitney Biennial. New York, NY
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1999
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Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1999
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Looking for a Place, Third International Site Santa Fe Biennial, (curated by Rosa Martínez) , Santa Fe, NM
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
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| Literature |
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2006
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Maria Elena Buszek and Christophe Kihm. Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2006
Daftari, Fereshteh. Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2006
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2002
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Grosenick, Uta. Art Now. Cologne: Taschen
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