Ghada Amer

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Ghada Amer (born 1963) is an Egyptian-born artist. She emigrated from her birth country as a student and was educated in Paris and Nice.[1] Much of her work displays female nudes engaged in sexual acts as a subtext to apparently abstract art.[2]

[edit] Notable works

She displayed in the Venice Biennale in 1999.[3] She is the first Arab artist to have a one-person exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[4] A detail of her work, "Knotty but Nice" was used on the cover of the September 2006 cover of ARTnews magazine, as part of a focus on erotic art.[5] She has also had solo shows in Manhattan.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/garnett/garnett5-23-00.asp
  2. ^ Art Journal, Winter 2001 issue, interview with Laura Auricchio, online at [1]
  3. ^ http://www.gagosian.com/artists/ghadaamer/
  4. ^ http://www.contemporaryartproject.com/cap/content/collection/artist_ghada.htm
  5. ^ September 2006 ARTnews issue summary
  6. ^ New York Times art review: An African Diaspora Show Asks: What Is Africanness? What Is Diaspora?


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