Ghada Amer
Born in 1963, Cairo, Egypt.
Lives and works in New York.

■ Education:
1991
Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique, Paris, France.

1989
MFA in Painting, Villa Arson EPIAR, Nice, France.


■ Solo Exhibitions:
2008
Ghada Amer /Reza Farkhondeh: a new Collaboration on paper,
Singapore Tyler Institute, Singapore,
Ghada Amer: Love has no end, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh: collaborative drawings, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA

2007
Ghada Amer/Reza Farkhondeh:collaborative drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Ghada Amer: another spring, Kukje gallery, Korea
Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy.
An Indigestible Dessert, A video in collaboration with Reza Farkhondeh, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan Italy,
Ghada Amer (curated by D. Eccher), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy.

2006
Ghada Amer: Paintings & RFGA Drawings (curated by J. Poodt), The Stedlijk Museum, 'S-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Ghada Amer: Breathe into me, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA

2005
The Reign of Terror (curated by Anja Chávez), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

2004
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy.

2002
Ghada Amer (curated by S. Bos), De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England.

2001
Encyclopedia of Pleasure, Deitch Projects, New York, NY.

2000
Ghada Amer (curated by A.J. Laferrière), Centre Culturel Contemporain (C.C.C.), Tours, France
Ghada Amer Drawings, Anadil Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New York, NY.
Travelled to: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel and Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany.

1998
Ghada Amer, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt,
Ghada Amer, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

1996
Ghada Amer, Annina Nosei Gallery, March 16-April 10, New York, NY.

1992
Ghada Amer, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France.


■ Group Exhibitions:

2007
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.

2006
Without Boundary, Seventeen Ways of Looking, (curated by F. Daftari), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Word into Art, British Museum, London, England.
Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sidney, Australia.

2005
Always a Little Further (curated by Rosa Martinez), 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy.

2004
Africa Remix, (curated by Jean-Hubert Martin), (through 2006), Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany. Traveled to: Hayward Gallery,

London, England; 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, (curated by A. Bonito Oliva), Certosa di Sab Lorenzo, Padula, Italy.

2003
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora (curated by Laurie Ann Farrell), Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY.


2001
The Short Century, (curated by Okwri Enwezor) Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany. Traveled to: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum

of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY.

2000
Leaving the Island, (curated Rosa Martinez), 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, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, March 21-June 4, New York, NY.
Man and Space, Kwangju Biennial 2000, (curated by René Block), Korea.
Rooms and Secrets/Stanze e Segreti, (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva), Rotonda del Besana, Milano, Italy.
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, (curated by Jean-Hubert Martin), Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France.

1999
APERTO Over All, 48th International Art Exhibition, (curated by Harald Szeeman), Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
Looking for a Place, Third International Site Santa Fe Biennial, (curated by Rosa Martínez) , Santa Fe, NM.

1998
Mar de Fondo, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Teatre Romà de Sagunt, Valencia, Spain.
Echolot (curated by René Block), Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
L’Envers du Décor, Dimensions Décoratives dans l’Art du XXème Siècle, Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France.

1997
Vraiment Feminisme et Art (curated by Laura Cottingham), Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Alternating Currents, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, (curated by Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya), Johannesburg, South Africa.

1996
The Sense of Order, (curated by Z. Badavinac), Moderne Galerija, May 9-June 23, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

1995
The Mutated Painting, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany.
Pittura/Immedia (curated by Peter Weibel), Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
Orient/ation, The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World, 4th International Istanbul Biennial, (curated by René Block), Istanbul, Turkey.

1993
June, (curated by Oliver Zahm), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.


■ Books and Catalogues:
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).
Daftari, Fereshteh. Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking. New York: Museum of Modern Art.

2005
Martínez, Rosa. Centre of Gravity. Istanbul: Istanbul Modern, (text by Lundström, Jan-Erik).
Farrel, Laurie Ann. Looking Both Ways/Das Esquinas do Olhar. (Portugese edition) Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

2004
Homes, A.M. Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery.
Martínez, Rosa, and Lundström, Jan-Erik, and Millet, Teresa. Ghada Amer. Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern.
Farrell, Laurie Ann. Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora. New York: Museum for African Art; Gent: Snoeck-Ducaju &

Zoon.

2003
Amer Sahar, and Olu Oguibe. Ghada Amer. Amsterdam: De Appel.
Freiman, Lisa D. Ghada Amer. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art.

2002
Kim, Clara. Ghada Amer: Délier les Langues. Geneva: Galerie Guy Bärtschi.
Grosenick, Uta. Art Now. Cologne: Taschen.
Renton, Andrew. Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery.
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon, (text by Marilu Knode).

2001
Enwezor, Okwui. The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. Munich: Prestel.
Moss, Karen. Ghada Amer. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute.
Martinez, Rosa. ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives. Helsinki: Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma.

2000
Lowry, Glenn. Greater New York: New Art in New York Now. New York: P.S.1.
Guralnik, Nehama & Mordecha Omer. Ghada Amer: Intimate Confessions. Tel Aviv: Museum of Art.
Oliva, Achille Bonito. Stanze e Segreti. Milan: Skira & Isaloni.
Fresh Cream. New York, London, Paris, Berlin: Phaidon Press.

1999
Martinez, Rosa. Looking for a Place. Santa Fe: SITE Santa Fe.

1998
Breitz, Candice. Ghada Amer. Kassel: Kunsthalle Fridercianum.

1994
Franceschi, Xavier, and Zahm, Olivier. Ghada Amer. Brétigny-sur-Orge: Espace Jules Verne.