1. Ghada Amer is currently living and working in New York City.
21 Facts About Ghada Amer
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Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt she has lived in France for twenty years, and doesn't consider herself singularly Egyptian, African or French.
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Ghada Amer's father, Mohamed Ghada Amer, was a diplomat and moved the family many times, not only to France but to such countries as Libya, Morocco and Algeria.
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Ghada Amer's favored theme remains idyllic images of women in love.
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Ghada Amer met Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh while studying in France, they became friends and later worked together.
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Ghada Amer studied at Institut des hautes etudes en arts plastiques for some time as well.
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Ghada Amer is most famous for her large-scale paintings wherein embroidered images of women in autoerotic poses are layered over abstract monochromatic drips and washes of acrylic paint.
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Ghada Amer's oeuvre includes examples of painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and installation.
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When Ghada Amer returned to France from Boston, she became fascinated with Rosemarie Trockel.
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Ghada Amer's painting is influenced by the idea of shifting meanings and the appropriation of the languages of abstraction and expressionism.
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Ghada Amer's work adopts "politically incorrect" imagery for subversive purposes.
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Ghada Amer then embroidered a gold thread on fifty-four stacked canvas-covered boxes.
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Ghada Amer has created public works such as Love Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Ghada Amer asked people passing by the museum what qualities they would attribute to women.
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Ghada Amer installed an elaborately decorated drawing room typically found in elegant homes across Egypt.
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Ghada Amer's work follows a long modernist tradition of critical practices against veiling, which, as Qassem Amin, Huda Sha'rawi, and Duriyah Shafiq argued decades before, represents a most visible symbol of the forces arrayed against women's emancipation.
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Ghada Amer is the first Arab artist to have a one-person exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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Ghada Amer's exhibited at Montreal's Musee d'Art Contemporain in 2012.
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Ghada Amer exhibited a collection of ceramic works at the Dallas Contemporary in 2018.
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In 2022, Ghada Amer presented My Body, My Choice at the Goodman Gallery in London.
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In 2003, Ghada Amer's work was included in Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora at The Museum for African Art in Queens.