Ghada Amer

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. [ [http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/garnett/garnett5-23-00.asp artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Into Africa ] ] Much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality, particularly the representation of female nudes in art history as ideal objects rather than human beings with a sexuality and eroticism of their own. [Art Journal, Winter 2001 issue, interview with Laura Auricchio, online at [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_4_60/ai_82360167/pg_5] ]

Notable works and exhibitions

She displayed in the Venice Biennale in 1999. [ [http://www.gagosian.com/artists/ghadaamer/ Gagosian Gallery - Ghada Amer ] ] She is the first Arab artist to have a one-person exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. [http://www.contemporaryartproject.com/cap/content/collection/artist_ghada.htm] 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. [ [http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/issue.asp?ID=10419 September 2006] "ARTnews" issue summary]

She has had solo shows in Manhattan. [New York Times art review: [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E1DA143BF932A15752C1A9659C8B63&pagewanted=all An African Diaspora Show Asks: What Is Africanness? What Is Diaspora?] ] Currently (in early 2008), her work is exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, at the museum's Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

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