Ghada Amer  (Egyptian, 1963) 

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Ghada Amer Biography
1963   Born: in Cairo, Egypt
1989   MFA in Painting, Villa Arson EPIAR, Nice, France
1991   Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique, Paris, France
1997   Received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
1999   Received the UNESCO award at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
  Lives and works in New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2010   elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou , Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
2009   Ghada Amer, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
2008   Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh: collaborative drawings, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008   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)
2007   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
2007   Ghada Amer: another spring, Kukje gallery, Korea (solo)
2007   Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy (solo)
2007   An Indigestible Dessert, A video in collaboration with Reza Farkhondeh, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan Italy (solo)
2007   Ghada Amer (curated by D. Eccher), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy (solo)
2007   La Biennale di Venizia 52nd, Checklist, Luanda Pop (curated by Fernando Alvim (Angola, Simon Njami (Cameroon), African Pavillion, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2007   Global Feminisims, (curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin), Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
2006   Word into Art, British Museum, London, England
2006   Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sidney, Australia
2006   Ghada Amer: Paintings & RFGA Drawings (curated by J. Poodt), The Stedlijk Museum 'S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (solo)
2006   Ghada Amer: Breathe into me, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2006   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)
2005   The Reign of Terror, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (solo)
Always a Little Further, 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2005   Always a Little Further (curated by Rosa Martinez), 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2004   Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, France
2004   Le Opere e i Giorni, La Vanitas, (curated by A. Bonito Oliva), Certosa di Sab Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
2004   Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
2004   Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (solo)
2004   Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (solo
2004   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)
2003   Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY
2002   Ghada Amer, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2002   Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England (solo
2001   The Short Century, (curated by Okwri Enwezor) Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany.
2001   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
2000   Kwangju Biennial, South Korea
2000   Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2000   Friends & Neighbors, EV+A 2000, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2000   Ghada Amer (curated by A.J. Laferrière), Centre Culturel Contemporain (C.C.C.), Tours, France (solo)
2000   Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
2000   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)
2000   Whitney Biennial. New York, NY
1999   Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999   Looking for a Place, Third International Site Santa Fe Biennial, (curated by Rosa Martínez) , Santa Fe, NM
  SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
  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
Literature
2006   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
2002   Grosenick, Uta. Art Now. Cologne: Taschen