WAEL DARWEISH biography
Wael Darwish was born in Cairo in 1975 and graduated from the Faculty of Art Education in 1998. He is a professor of drawing and painting in the same faculty from graduation to current date. He holds a doctorate degree in Contemporary Painting Philosophy as well as a Master’s degree in painting and drawing. Darwish has a long career in visual arts spanning over the period of more than twenty-five years. Darwish is a multidisciplinary artist who uses painting, video and installation art to articulate his observations of political and socioeconomic change and their effect on the contemporary man.
His artistic journey is based locally and expands to include the Middle East region and worldwide. The artist has also held twenty-one solo exhibitions so far and also has a track record of achievements at all professional levels at the level of international exhibitions. He has participated with his artworks in more than one hundred international exhibitions. The artist has also received many awards at the local and international levels. His artworks constitute a realistic study of the reaction of contemporary society with all its problems and their effects on contemporary humanity. His artistic style relies on trends from surrealism, symbolism and color expressionism, and the human element constitutes the axis for building artistic work on the basis that human is the center of build.
Education
2019 PhD, Full Professor, Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University
2014 PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University
2008 PhD, Contemporary Painting Philosophy, Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University
2003 MFA, Painting and drawing department, Faculty of art Education, Helwan University
1998 BA, Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt
Solo Exhibitions
2022 IM …YOU- solo exhipation- Demi art- cairo- Egypt.
2022 25 years of art,arteology gallery ,the west boulevard,zayed,cairo,EGYPT.
2021 Ambivalent Self, solo online exhibition- by Blue Rhino Art Consultancy- London& Istanbul.
2018 not expect- DAI artgallers- cairo-egypt.
2017 Visual code, Capital Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
2016 Time intermezzo ,zamalek art gallery ,cairo,Egypt.
2015 the prank, Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2014 Disappearance, Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2013 C0LLECTIVE VIEW, Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2012 Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
2012 Egyptian Embassy, Zagreb, Croatia.
2013 C0LLECTIVE VIEW, Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2012 Egyptian Embassy, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2012 witness – Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2011 Gallery-Museum Lendava, Slovenia.
2010 SHROUDED MEMORIES – Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2009 Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt.
2008 El Gezera art center, Cairo, Egypt.
2003-2006-2007 Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt.
2002 Center of Arts, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt.
Group Shows
2022 the scene 1- sinter of arts- Cairo-EGYPT.
2022 Cairo art fairVol 2 , Tam art galleries , new Cairo , Egypt.
2021 Egypt art fair,AZAD ART GALLERYS,CAIRO, EGYPT.
2021 Cairo art fair , Tam art galleries , cairo , Egypt.
2021 THE INTERCONTINENTAL BIENNIAL OF THE INDIGENOUS ART – USA.
2021 positive space - Tam art galleries , Cairo , Egypt.
2020 National Exhibition - palace of Arts - Egyptian Opera House cairo.
2020 ARS GRATIA ARTIS EXHIBITION- POST ART- THE INTERNATIONAL MESSAGE- Fundacion Paurides Spain.
2020 Luxor international painting symposium 13, luxor, Egypt.
2020 ART WITHOUT BORDERS- codex-art- Požarevac , Republic of Serbia.
2019 Cairo art fair , Tam art galleries , cairo , Egypt.
2019 "Don't bite me!", Naples international art symposium-Academy of Fine Arts – Naples- Italy.
2019 (Mirage of Hope) exhibition-The International Organization for Migration (IOM)- Tunisia.
2019 MILLER ART MUSEUM , WISCONSIN, STURGEAN BAY,USA.
2019 (Like You, Like Me) in Detroit Mi, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art-Michigan-USA.
2019 "Cairo Reflection"- Al Hanager Arts Center-Cairo Opera House- Egypt.
2018 first international Biennale and art symposium in Veliko gradista Požarevac, Serbia,2018
2018 International Art Festival (ode to Life) - prestigious gallery venue of Royal Palace Petrović – Podgorica - Montenegro.
2018 N’NAMDI CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART-MICHIGAN – USA.
2018 III International Art Colony „Artefact“,Veliko Gradište, Republic of Serbia.
2018 XII International Art Colony "Love and understanding with a message of peace", Požarevac , Republic of Serbia.
2018 A Guide for Our Times- CARAVAN's -Sotheby's – London-UK.
2018 THE 16 FINE ARTES FESTIVAL-MOUNSTIR-TUNISIA.
2018 the 2th INTERNATUNAL ART SEMPOSUM-KATARA-QATAR.
2017 the 12th International art colony “My balkan” , Požarevac , Republic of Serbia.
2016 THE 1ST AILA ART SEMPOSUM- JURDAN
2016 INTERNATUNAL ART SEMPOSUM – NEW DELHY – INDIA
2015 CAIRO AMMAN BANK INTERNATUNAL ART SEMPOSUM 2- AMMAN- JURDAN.
2015 GALLERIES NIGHT Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2015 1st narrative movements – the jehan hotel - New Delhi.
2015 1st Moscow Art Fair” -a dialogue through the language of art-Gallery Kremlin- Moscow.
2014 CARAVAN 3, Cairo Opera House, Egypt, National Cathedral in Washington D.C, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
2014 Art 14 LONDON, BOOTH E10, atolympia, Kensington, London.
2013 Abu Dhabi Art Fair, art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2013 Christie’s Dubai Artsawa Gallery, Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2013 SYRI -ARTS EXHIBITION & AUCTION-Beirut Exhibition Center (Downtown Beirut)-Lebanon.
2013 the 55th Venice biennale – the Maldivian Pavilion – Venice-Italy.
2013 Art 13 LONDON,BOOTH E10,atolympia,kinsington,London.
2012 Abu Dhabi Art Fair - art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2012 Christie’s auction – (by art sawa gallery) – Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2011 10th International Fine Arts Colony-Monošter / Szentgotthárd, Hungary.
2011 MENASART ART FAIR , Beirut International Exhibition-Leisure Center (Biel)- LEBANON.‏
2011 ÇANKIRI KARATEKİN UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF FINE ARTS – SUMMER ACADEMY-Ankara – Turkey .
2011 Abu Dhabi Art Fair – art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2010 Commissaries of the Egyptian Section – III Biennale of Art Ecuador – Quito – Ecuador.
2010 Abu Dhabi Art Fair – art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2010 Arab Cultural week – Johannesburg – Eritrea – South Africa
2010 15th Lind Art INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS FINE ARTS COLONY, Gallery-Museum Lendava,
Slovenia.
2010 Black and white-El Gezera Art Senter, Cairo, Egypt.
2010 Land Of The Hyper real- Memorial Jose, Revolution Square, Havana, Kupa.
2009 Abu Dhabi Art Fair – art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2009 Bonjour la France Art Fair – Abu Dhabi-United Arab Emirates.
2009 DARKLIGHT FILM FESTIVAL – DUBLIN-, Ireland.
2009 DUBLIN ELECTRONIC ARTS FESTIVAL: D.E.A.F , Ireland.
2009 UNDERCURRENT contemporary Egyptian art- art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2009 AGANDA EXHIPATION, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.
2009 AL MARKAYAH ART GALLERY- Doha, Qatar .
2008 Cairo international Biennial 11- 2008 – Cairo Opera House-Egypt.
2008 Creative Expressions – art sawa gallery- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2008 Art Paris- Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2008 Art sawa gallery opening- Dubai-United Arab Emirates.
2008 ÖREBRO INTERNATIONAL VIDEOART FESTIVAL-Sweden.
2008 Secrets project –Dara el finon-amman – Jordan.
2008 Dubai Art Fair -United Arab Emirates – responses contemporary practices magazine.
2008 From Athens to Marseille to Cairo, Marseille, France.
2007 what is happening today, Cairo Opera House,Egypt.
2007 The days of the Egyptian culture in India, New Delhi, India.
2007 The Present out of the Past Millennia, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn,Germany.
2006 The 1st International Web Exhibition. www.ecartists.com .
2005 Contemporary Egyptian paintings – Egyptian Academy in Rome, Italy.
2005 Imagining the Book I, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria – Egypt.
2007 Imagining the Book II, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria -Egypt.
2005 Art and Soul, Cairo Opera House Gallery, Egypt.
2002 6th International Ceramics Biennial, Cairo Opera House &Palace of arts Cairo- Egypt.
2002 Arab Visual Artists’ Exhibition, Taha Hussein Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
2001 Arab Visual Artists’ Exhibition, Taha Hussein Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
2000 5th International Ceramics Biennial, Cairo Opera House & Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt.
1998-2003 Annual Salons of Miniatures, Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt.
1998-2004 Annual Salons of Young Artists, Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt.
Awards & Prizes

Art residencies
2019 the 12th International art colony “My balkan” , which will maintain in Požarevac , Republic of Serbia.
2016 2nd year that «Machanents» International Symposium, Ejmiatsin, Armenian.
2015 1st narrative movements – the jehan hotel - new Delhi.
2015 1st Moscow Art Fair” -a dialogue through the language of art-Gallery Kremlin- Moscow.
2015 2 International Thessaloniki art Fir, Thessaloniki, GREEK.
2012 3th International Fine Arts Residence “The Old School” ,Gorna Lipnitsa 17 – 26 August , PAVLIKENI, Bulgaria.
2011 10th International Fine Arts Colony -Monošter / Szentgotthárd, Hungary.
2011 ÇANKIRI KARATEKİN UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF FINE ARTS – SUMMERACADEMY-Ankara–Turkey .
2010 15th Lind Art INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS FINE ARTS COLONY, Gallery-Museum Landava, Slovenia.
Awards & Prizes
2018 Biennale Award at the ( first international Biennale and art symposium in Veliko gradista Pozarevac, Serbia,2018
2018 1 st prize, 15th FINE ARTES FESTIVAL-MOUNSTIR-TUNISIA
2010 1 st prize,15th Lind Art INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS FINE ARTS COLONY.
Grand prize, 13th Salon of Young Artists ,Cairo Opera House ,Egypt.2003
2000 the International Ceramics Biennial, Cairo Opera House & Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt.
2000 Jury Prize, the All-Egyptian Artists Exhibition ,Cairo Opera House,Egypt
Jury Prize, 11th Salon of Young Artists,Cairo Opera House,Egypt.1999
1st prize, 10th Salon of Young Artists ,Cairo Opera House,Egypt.1998

Collections
- MOUNSTIR Museum of Modern Art -TUNISIA
- Danish embassy in Cairo.
- Egyptian Museum of Modern Art .
- 15th May Museum.
- Alexandria Library.
- New Cairo Air Port.
- Gallery-Museum Lendava, Slovenia.
- ÇANKIRI KARATEKİN UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF FINE ARTS -Ankara – Turkey .

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