4. GHADA AMER
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| Untitled, 1991, colored pencil, graphite and crayon on paper, 20.95 x 28.32 cm. |
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| You My Love, 2011, acrylic and embroidery on canvas, 127 x 165 cm. |
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| Test #8, 2013, acrylic, embroidery and gel medium on canvas, 50,8 x 50.8 cm. |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1963 in EL Cairo, Egypt
Studies:
1989-
MFA in Villa Arson EPIAR, Nice, France
Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique
in Paris, France
Nowadays:
Lives and works in New
York, U.S.A.
Themes:
In
general lines: Feminism and sexuality. Amer's work addresses
universal problems, such as the oppression of women, which are prevalent in
many cultures. The submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the
celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love,
the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty,
constitute the territory that she explores and expresses in her art.
Techniques:
Multimedia, needlework
and oil in canvas
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2014
Ghada Amer: Rainbow Girls, Cheim and Read, New
York, NY, USA.
2013
Ghada Amer: Référence à Elle, Kukje Gallery,
Seoul, Korea.
2012
The Other I, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY,
USA.
Ghada Amer, Musee d’Art Contemporain de
Montreal, Montreal
2011
100 Words of Love, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA.
No
Romance, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010
Color Misbehavior, Cheim & Read, New York,
NY, USA.
2009
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off
Limits, Pace Prints, New York, NY, USA.
2008
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative
Drawings, Tina Kim Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA.
Ghada
Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: A New Collaboration on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print
Institute, Singapore.
Love Has No End, Elisabeth A. Sackler Center
for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA.
2007
Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh, Collaborative
Drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Another Spring, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini Gallery,
Milan, Italy.
Ghada Amer, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma,
MACRO, Rome, Italy.
2006
Breathe Into Me, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea),
NY, USA.
2004
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills,
CA, USA.
Ghada Amer, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern,
Valencia, Spain.
2003
Ghada Amer, Forefront 45, Indianapolis Museum
of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia,
Italy.
2002
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England.
Ghada Amer, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
2001
Encyclopedia of Pleasure, Deitch Projects, New
York, NY, USA.
Reading Between the Threads, Henie-Onstad
Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway. Traveled to:
Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany and Bildmuseet,
Umea, Sweden.
2000
Ghada Amer Drawings, Anadil Gallery, Jerusalem,
Israel.
Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New
York, NY, USA. Traveled: to Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel and
Kunst-werke, Berlin, Germany.
Ghada Amer, Centre Culturel Contemporain
(C.C.C.), Tours, France.
1999
Ghada Amer, Centro Andaluz de Arte
Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain.
1998
Ghada Amer, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY,
USA.
1997
Ghada Amer, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt.
1996
Ghada Amer, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY,
USA.
1994
Ghada Amer, Centre Jules Verne,
Brétigny-sur-Orge, France.
1993
Ghada Amer, Galerie Météo, Paris, France.
1992
Ghada Amer, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France.
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
2014
Mauvais Genre, Addict Galerie, Paris, France.
Killer Heels, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY,
USA.
Songs of Loss and Songs of Love, Gwangju Museum
of Art, Gwangju, South Korea.
The Divine Comedy. The Mmk Frankfurt Museum,
Germany.
2013
Earth Matters, National Museum for African Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Sculptrices, Villa Datris, Fondation pour la
Sculpture Contemporaine, L’Isle-sur-Sorgue, France.
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.
Tea For Nefertiti, Arab Museum of Doha, Qatar,
UAE. Travelled to Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France.
2011
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.
2009
Against exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage
Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
Elles @ centrepompidou, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris France.
2008
Prospects 1, Contemporary Arts Center, New
Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
2007
Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Traveled to Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.
2006
Without Boundary, Museum of Modern Art, New
York, NY, USA.
Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia.
2005
Centre of Gravity , Istanbul Modern, Istanbul,
Turkey.
Here Comes the Sun , Magasin 3, Stockholm
Konsthall, Sweden.
Always a Little Further, 51st International
Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy.
2004
Africa Remix Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf,
Germany. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London, England; Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan and Moderna Museet Stockholm,
Sweden.
Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les
Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou,
Paris,France.
2003
Harem Fantasies and the New Scheherazades,
Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary
African Diaspora, Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY, USA. Travelled
to: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA,
USA; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI, USA; City Art Center, Edimbourough,
Scothland, UK;
Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA,
USA.
Il Racconto del Filo: Ricamo e cucito nell’arte
contemporanea, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto,
Roverto, Italy.
2001
The Short Century, Museum Village Stuck,
Munich, Germany. Traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin,
Germany; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA and PS1 Long Island City, New York, NY
2000
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now,
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY, USA.
Man and Space, Gwangju Biennial 2000, Gwangju,
Korea.
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art
Contemporain de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France.
1999
APERTO Over All, 48th International Art
Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
Looking for a Place, Third International Site
Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
1998
Echolot , 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 Féminisme et Art , Le Magasin Centre
National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Alternating Currents, 2nd Johannesburg
Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1996
The Sense of Order, Moderne Galerija, Ljubljana,
Slovenia.
1995Orient/ation, The Vision of Art in a
Paradoxical World, 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
1992
I Love Paris, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France.
Special
Projects:
2013
Hunger, National Museum for African Art,
Smithsonian Gardens, Washington DC, USA.
2010
Ornellia Wine Labels, (collaboration with Reza
Farkhondeh), Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA.
2007
An indigestible Dessert, Francesca Minini,
(collaboration with Reza Farkhondeh) Milan, Italy.
2006
Il Etait une Fois dans un Pays Lointain,
Festival des Cultures Francophones 2006: 'Faites vos Jeux!' Rennes,France.
Fear Dress, Whitney Art Party, (collaboration
with Francisco Costa and Calvin Klein) New York, NY, USA.
2005
Reign of Terror, Davis Museum, Wellesley
College, MA, USA.
Yin Yang Garden, 51st Venice Biennial, Venice,
Italy.
2004
S’il Pleuvait des Larmes, Certosa di Padula,
Padula,Italy.
2003
Ciudad Multiple: Six Chinese Proverbs, Arpa
Foundation, Panama City, Panama.
Love Grave, Indianapolis Museum of Art,
Indianapolis, IN, USA.
2002
Peace Garden/Art Project, Art Basel Miami
Beach, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, FL, USA.
2001
Hoy el 70% de los Pobres en el Mundo Son
Mujeres (Today 70% of the Poor in the World Are Women), La Rambla del Raval,
Barcelona, Spain.
2000
Women’s Qualities in Leaving the Island, Busan
International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Busan Museum of Art, Korea.
1999
Love Park in the “Third International Biennial
Exhibition: Looking for a Place”, SITE Santa Fe, NM, USA.
1998
Cactus Painting in Mar de Fondo, Teatro Romano
de Sagunto, Valencia, Spain.
1997
L'Espace à Effeuiller la Marguerite in Aamitiés et Autres Catastrophes, La Carte
du Tendre, Le Crestet Centre d’Art, Vaison-la Romaine, France.
Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI.
Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC) Paris,
France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Auvergne,
France.
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC),
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.
Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
LaM Museum, Lille Métropole Musée d’Art
Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, NY.
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
In her own words:
« La séduction et le féminisme ne sont
pas incompatibles » (" Seduction and feminism are not
incompatible ')
Representative Galleries
http://www.goodman-gallery.com/artists/ghadaamer
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