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b.1963, EG



1991
Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris, France

1989
MFA in Painting, Villa Arson E.P.I.A.R., Nice, France

1987
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Boston


1986
BFA in Painting, Villa Arson E.P.I.A.R., Nice, France




SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS



2009
Ghada Amer: Failing Shahrazad, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off Limits, Pace Prints Chelsea, New York


2008
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings, Tina Kim Fine Arts, New York
Ghada Amer – Reza Farkhondeh: A new Collaboration on Paper, Singapore Tyler Institute, Singapore
Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, Elisabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York


2007
Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh, Collaborative Drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Ghada Amer, Another Spring, Seoul, Korea
Ghada Amer (curated by D. Eccher), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy
Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh - An Indigestible Dessert, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan, Italy
Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy
Ghada Amer, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN


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



2005
Ghada Amer ( curated by R. Smith), H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
The Reign of Terror (curated by Anja Chávez), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA



2004
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Ghada Amer, (curated by Teresa Millet), Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain



2003
Forefront 45: Ghada Amer (curated by L.D. Freiman), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Universal Strangers, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal


2002
Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
Ghada Amer (curated by S. Bos), De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Works by Ghada Amer, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Ghada Amer, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland



2001
Encyclopedia of Pleasure, Deitch Projects, New York
Reading Between the Threads (curated by Selene Wendt), Henie-Onstad
Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway, Travelled to: Kunst Palast, Sweden
Ghada Amer: Pleasure (curated by Valerie Cassel), Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
Ghada Amer: Recent Work, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Düsseldorf, Germany, Bildmuseet, University of Umeå, Sweden


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, Travelled to: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Ghada Amer, University of Wisconsin Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI






SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2009
Prospects 1, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
III Moscow Biennale; Against Exclusion, curated by Jean-Huber Martin, Dasha Zhukova’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women, Cheim & Read, New York



2008
Demons, Yarnes & Tales, Tapestry by Contemporary Artists, (curated by Banners of Persuasion), London, England, Travelled to: Miami
The Future Must Be Sweet : The Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years, (curated by Marilyn S. Kushner), International Print Center, New York
Valeurs Croisées, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
Pandora’s Box, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Far From Home, North Carolina Museum of Arts, North Carolina



2007
Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Art and Design, New York
Alles Klar ? Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Dialogues Méditerranéens, (curated by Susanne Van Hagen), St. Tropez, France
Afterglow, (curated by Laurie Farell and Celina Jeffrey), Savannah Art and Design, Lacoste, France
Substance and Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York
Reconstruction # 2, Sudely Castle Winchombe, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
La Biennale di Venizia 52nd, Checklist, Luanda Pop (curated by Fernando Alvim (Angola), Simon Njami (Cameroon)), Africa Pavillion, Arsenale, England, Venice, Italy
Commemorating 30 years: Part Three, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Inscribing Meaning, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., Travelled to: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Los Angeles
Gender Stitchery: Artist Knit/Sew Art, (curated by Laurel Bradley), Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
Global Feminisims, (curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin), Brooklyn Museum, New York ,Traveled to: Wellesley College, Wellesley
What F word ? (curated by Carol Cole Levin), Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
Collective One, Guy Bärtschi Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland


2006
Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 from New York Printshops, (curated by Janice Carlson Oresman), The Grolier Club, New York
Kitaj: Little Pictures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
Showcase for Contemporary Works on Paper, INK Miami, Miami
Insolence, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
Grand Promenade, (curated by A. Kafetsi), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Reconstruction #1, (curated by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst & Elliot McDonald), Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Australia
Word into Art, British Museum, London, England
La Force de l'Art, Paris Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, France
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York
Without Boundary, Seventeen Ways of Looking, (curated by F. Daftari), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Threads of Memory, (curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenton), Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
C’era una Volta un Re. La Fiaba Contemporanea, (curated by D. Denegri), ARCOS, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Soie, Centre d’Art Contemporain Le Rectangle, Lyon, France



2005
Donna Donne. Uno Sguardo sul Feminile nell’arte Contemporanea, (curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Centre of Gravity (curated by Rosa Martinez), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Hanging by a Thread, Moore Space, Miami, FL
Here Comes the Sun (curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Rosa Martinez, Jerome Sans and Sarit Shapira), Magasin 3, Stocholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Fairy Tales Forever: International Homage to H.C. Andersen, AroS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Down the Garden Path, (curated by Valerie Smith), Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Vertigo (curated by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst) Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Always a Little Further (curated by Rosa Martinez), 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Identità & Nomadismo, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Femmes, Musée de Carouge, Carouge, Switzerland, Traveled to: Florence and to Brussels, Belgium
TEXTures: Word and Symbol in Contemporary African Art, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
Confluence (curated by Jennifer Gately), Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID



2004
Deitch Projects at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
De Leur Temps, les Collections Privées Françaises, (curated by Evelyne Dorothée Allemand and Michel Poitevin), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
Freedom Salon, Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues & Ideas, Deitch Projects, New York
Africa Remix, (curated by Jean-Hubert Martin), 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
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Periplo del Mediterraneo, (curated by Maurizio Calvesi and Marisa Vescovo), Museo dell’Accademia Ligustica di Belli Arti e Loggia di Banchi o della Mercanzia, Genova, Italy
Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Ghada Amer, Shirazeh Houshiary, Sue Williams, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Kunst Stoff, (curated by Elisabeth von Samsonow and Rosemarie Schwarzwälder), Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists (curated by David O’Brien and David Prochaska), Krannert Artmuseum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, Traveled to: LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Le Opere e i Giorni, La Vanitas, (curated by A. Bonito Oliva), Certosa di Sab Lorenzo, Padula, Italy
L’Ecriture, le Signe, le Motif, Diocèse du Puy en Velay, le Puy en Velay, France



2003
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora (curated by Laurie Ann Farrell), Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY, Traveled to: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Inscribing Meanings: African Arts of Communication, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Rêverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Corporal Identity-Body Language, 9th Triennial for Form and Content, (curated by Eric de Chassey; U. Ilse-Neuman; D. Revere; Mc Fadden; S. Runde; S. Soltek), Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt & Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Germany, Traveled to: Museum of Arts & Design, New York
Sites of Recurrence, Madras Craft Foundation, Dakshina Chitra, Chennai, India,Traveled to: Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
Il Racconto del Filo: Ricamo e cucito nell’arte contemporanea, (curated by F. Pasini; G. Verzotti), Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Roverto, Italy
Feminine Persuasion: Contemporary Women’s Sexualities, School of Fine Arts Gallery and the Kinsey Institute of Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Aligned, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Harem Fantasies and the New Scheherazades, (curated by Rose Issa) Centro de Cultura Contemporanea deBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain



2002
Doble Filo (curated by Xabier Arakistain). Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain
Go Figure (curated by M. Steinberg; S. Stoyanov), Luxe Gallery, New York
Contemporary Art Project, Seattle Art Museum Downtown, Seattle, Washington



2001
Best of 2001, Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France
Accrochage, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Sous-Titrée X, la Pornographie entre Image et Propos, (curated by Ramon Tio Bellido), Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France
Mediterranean – the New Wall? Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Unfolding Perspective, ARS 01, (curated by T. Arkio; M. Jaukkuri; P. Nyberg, J. Vanhala), Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Threads of Vision: Toward a New Feminine Poetics, (curated by Kristin Chambers), Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Experiences, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Barcelona Art Report 2001 Triennial, Barcelona, Spain
Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists Clothing, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
The Short Century, (curated by Okwri Enwezor) Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany, Traveled to: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, P.S. 1 and MoMA, Long Island City, NY
Heureux le Visionnaire…, La Louvière : Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière, Belgium
Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Entretejidos-Texturas: Arte Contemporeaneo y Artesania Frances, Museo des Artes de Lima, Peru,Traveled to: Museo Nacional, Rio de Janerio, Brazil; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina



2000
Cross Female, (curated by B. Höffer, V. Schulte-Fischedick), Metaphern des Weiblichen inder Kunst Derguer Jahre, Berlin, Germany
Jean-Hubert Martin, T. Prat, T. Raspail, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
Fait-maison, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France
Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, (curated by Racines), Musée Dauphinois, Grenoble, France
Rooms and Secrets/Stanze e Segreti, (curated by Achille Bonito Oliva), Rotonda del Besana, Milan, Ital
Man and Space, Kwangju Biennial 2000, (curated by René Block), Gwangju, South Korea
Whitney Biennial, (curated by M. Lincoln Andersen), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Friends & Neighbors, EV+A 2000, (curated by Rosa Martinez), Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Leaving the Island, (curated Rosa Martinez), Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, South Korea
Continental Shift: A Journey between Cultures, African Artists in Europe, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, Traveled to: Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands Musée d’Art Moderne, Liège, France, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands





PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Brooklyn Museum, New York
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
Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel