Artworks by Ghada Amer at Omer Tiroche Gallery on artnet

Ghada Amer

(Egyptian, born 1963)

Ghada Amer

Pastel Drips with Four Figures, 1999

30,000–40,000 EUR

Biography

Timeline

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
2017: Artist in Residency at Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
: Honoured by African Art Award of The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., USA
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2018: Ceramics, Thoughts, Knots, Scraps, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo)
: Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, organized by guest curator Elizabeth Rooklidge, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
: Une Nouvelle humanité, curated by Simon Njami, 13th Biennale of Dakar, Dak’art, Dakar, Senegal
: Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
: Le Grand monnayage: 8e biennale internationale d’art contemporain de Melle, curated by Frédéric Legros and Chloé Hipeau-Diskos, Biennale de Melle, Melle, France
: Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender at the Speed Art Museum, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
: Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh / Love Is a Difficult Blue, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (solo)
: Ghada Amer, Cheim & Read, New York City, New York, USA (solo)
: Dark Continent, Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France (solo)
: All Things Being Equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa
: Being Her(e): Meditations on African Femininities, curated by Refilwe Nkomo and Thato Mogotsi and mentored by Paula Nascimento and Violet Nantume, Kauru Contemporary African Art Project, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Ghada Amer: Déesse Terre, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York City, New York, USA (solo)
: Lucy’s Iris: Contemporary African Artists, curated by Orlando Britto Jinorio, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) and Casa África, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
: Third Space / Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
: Entangled: Threads & Making, curated by Karen Wright, Turner Contemporary, London, England
: Converging Voices: Gender and Identity, curated by Karen T. Albert, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York, USA
: I Go, You Go, Good to Go, Unclebrother, Hancock, New York, USA
: D’un monde à l’autre, Abbaye d’Annecy Le Vieux, Annecy, France
: Uptown, organized by Deborah Cullen, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA
: Ceramics Now: Ghada Amer, Judy Hoffman, Alice Mackler, Ellen Robinson, Greenwich House Pottery, New York City, New York, USA
: In Rebellion: Female Narratives in the Arab World, curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
: Eternal Light: Something Old, Something New, curated by Nadine A. Ghaffar, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
2017: Do We Dream Under the Same Sky, curated by Thomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
: Ways of Seeing, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, ARTER – Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey
: New Revolutions: Goodman Gallery at 50, curated by Liza Essers, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
: The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men, Cheim & Read, New York City, New York, USA
: Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2016: Ghada Amer, KEWENIG, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: In Context: Africans in America, curated by Liza Essers and Hank Willis Thomas, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
: Earth. Love. Fire, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (solo)
: Le fil rouge, Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany
: Words Words Words, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
: You Love Me You Love Me Not, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
: GHP Exhibition: Amer, Baga, Cameron, Greenbaum, Lins, Mackler, Salle, curated by Adam Welch, with assistance from Derek Weisberg, Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery, New York City, New York, USA
: A l’ombre d’eros – l’amour, la mort, la vie!, Monastère Royal de Brou, Bourg-en- Bresse, France
: The Worlds Turned Upside Down – Contemporary art and folk cultures, BPS22, Hainaut Province’s Art Museum, Charleroi, Belgium
: Art_Textiles, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
2015: Winter in America: A Mulitmedia Group Exhibition, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, USA
: Speaking Back, curated by Natasha Becker, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: Monoprints and Recent Editions, Pace Prints Chelsea, New York City, New York, USA
: Recent Prints, Pace Prints Chelsea, New York City, New York, USA
: Songs of Loss and Songs of Love: Oum Kulthum and Lee Nan-Young, curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Ferhat, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
: The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, MMK1, Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany; traveled to Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA; and National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
: GIRL, curated by Pharrell Williams, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin / Salle de Bal, Paris, France
: Slow Learner, curated by Andreas Leventis, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
: Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection, organized by Susan Davidson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, with Sasha Kalter-Wasserman, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, and Maisa Al Qassimi, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Cultural Authority, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
: Mauvais Genre, proposal by Laetitia Hecht and Samantha Barroero, Addict Galerie, Paris, France
: Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, New York, USA; traveled to Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, USA; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
: Draw: Mapping Madness, curated by Thomas Vu and Yuan Zuo, Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014: Rainbow Girls, Cheim & Read, New York City, New York, USA (solo)
: Cruce de Colecciones, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2013: Référence à Elle, Kukje Gallery, Seoul Korea (solo)
: 4.Biennial of Thessaloniki, Greece. Chief Curator, Adelina von Furstenberg
: Sculptures, Villa Datris, Fondation Pour La Sculpture Contemporaine– L’Isle sur la Sorgue, France
: Earth Matters, National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
: Tea For Nefertiti, Arab Museum of Doha, Doha, Qatar, UAE. Travelled to: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
: Ghada Amer, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada (solo)
2012: Prism – Drawing from 1990-2011, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
: Le Corps Découvert, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France
: The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil
2011: 100 Words of Love, Cheim & Read, New York, USA (solo)
: No Romance, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)
: The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen-Year, Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2010: Residua, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE
: Told, Untold, Retold, The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, UAE
: Color Misbehavior, Cheim & Read, New York, USA (solo)
: elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
: Against exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow
: Failing Shahrazad, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
2009: Ghada Amer, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
: Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off Limits, Pace Prints, New York, USA (solo)
2008: Ghada Amer: Love has no end, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (solo)
: Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh: collaborative drawings, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Ghada Amer /Reza Farkhondeh: a new Collaboration on paper Singapore Tyler Institute, Singapore (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 (curated by D. Eccher), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy (solo)
: La Biennale di Venizia 52nd, Checklist, Luanda Pop (curated by Fernando Alvim (Angola, Simon Njami (Cameroon), African Pavillion, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
: Global Feminisims, (curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin), Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
: Ghada Amer: Breathe into me, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Without Boundary, Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Ghada Amer: Paintings & RFGA Drawings (curated by J. Poodt), The Stedlijk Museum 'S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (solo)
2006: Word into Art, British Museum, London, England
: Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sidney, Australia
2005: The Reign of Terror, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (solo)
: 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
: Le Opere e i Giorni, La Vanitas, (curated by A. Bonito Oliva), 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)
: 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
2003: Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY
: Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England (solo
2002: Ghada Amer, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2001: The Short Century, (curated by Okwri Enwezor) Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
: Encyclopedia of Pleasure, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
2000: Leaving the Island, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea
: Kwangju Biennial, 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, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
: Ghada Amer (curated by A.J. Laferrière), Centre Culturel Contemporain (C.C.C.), Tours, France (solo)
: Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
: Whitney Biennial, New York, NY
: Ghada Amer Drawings, Anadil Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel (solo)
: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1999: Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
: Looking for a Place, Third International Site Santa Fe Biennial, (curated by Rosa Martínez) , Santa Fe, NM

Public Collections

: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE
: Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
: Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Auvergne, France
: Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC) Paris, France
: Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, UK
: Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
: Speed Art Museum, Louisville
: Samsung Museum, Seoul, Korea
: Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
: Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, USA
: Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
: LaM Museum, Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut
: Israel Museum, Jerusalem
: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA

Literature

2013: Martinez, Rosa and Fadda, Reem: Ghada Amer “Référence à Elle”, Kukje Gallery, Korea
: Herman, Nick: Sculptures, Villa Datris – Fondation Pour La Sculpture Contemporaine, France
2012: Schwartz, Jamie; Lewis, Jacob. The Other I. Tina Kim Gallery
: St. Gelais, Therese, Ghada Amer, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
2011: Rubin, Nathan, No Romance: Ghada Amer | Reza Farkhondeh & Collaborative Work, Goodman Gallery,Johannesburg, South Africa
2010: Antle, Martine. The Gardens Next Door. Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
: Reilley, Maura. «Ghada Amer.» Gregory R. Miller & Co, New York
2009: Katz, Vincent. The Natural World, the Political Context: Collaborative Monoprints by Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh. Pace Prints, New York
2008: Farrell, Laurie Ann. Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings. Seoul: Kukje Gallery
: Antle, Martine. Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh: A New Collaboration on Paper. Singapore: STPI
2007: Celant, Germano ; Eccher, Danilo ; Macri, Teresa ; Janus, Elizabeth. Ghada Amer. MACRO, Roma
2006: Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery. (text by Maria Elena Buszek and Christophe Kihm)
: 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
2004: Farrell, Laurie Ann. Ghada Amer. Seoul: Kukje Gallery
: Homes, A.M. Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery
: Martínez, Rosa, and Lundström, Jan-Erik, and Millet, Teresa. Ghada Amer. Valencia: Institut Valencià
2003: Amer, Sahar, and Olu Oguibe. Ghada Amer. Amsterdam: De Appel
: Freiman, Lisa D. Ghada Amer. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art
: Haglund, Elisabet, and Maleström, Tamara. Sites of Recurrence: a Workshop in Contemporary Art
: Chennai: Madras Craft Foundation, India.(Text by Wendt, Selene)
: Martinez, Rosa. Ghada Amer. Lisbon : Galeria Filomena Soares
2002: Grosenick, Uta. Art Now. Cologne: Taschen

Ghada Amer

(Egyptian, born 1963)

Ghada Amer

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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