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 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.[2]
[edit] Notable works and exhibitions
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 had solo shows in Manhattan.[6] 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.
[edit] References
- ^ artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Into Africa
- ^ Art Journal, Winter 2001 issue, interview with Laura Auricchio, online at [1]
- ^ Gagosian Gallery - Ghada Amer
- ^ http://www.contemporaryartproject.com/cap/content/collection/artist_ghada.htm
- ^ September 2006 ARTnews issue summary
- ^ New York Times art review: An African Diaspora Show Asks: What Is Africanness? What Is Diaspora?
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