13 Facts About Heba Amin

Heba Amin was educated at Cairo American College in Maadi.

Heba Amin enrolled in a post-graduate program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2005.

Heba Amin received an MFA in interactive design from the College of Design at the University of Minnesota in 2009.

Heba Amin is a DCRL Fellow in Leuphana University in Luneburg, a doctoral fellow in at BGSMSC at Freie Universitat in Berlin from 2016 to present, and a current Field of Vision fellow in NYC.

Heba Amin's works are embedded in extensive research and interrogating the convergence of politics, technology, and urbanism.

Heba Amin is currently the curator of Visual Art for Mizna, curator for the biennial residency program DEFAULT with Ramdom Association and co-founder of the Black Athena Collective along with artist Dawit L Petros.

Heba Amin is one of the artists behind the subversive action on the set of the television series "Homeland" which received worldwide media attention.

Heba Amin has criticized Homeland for its inaccuracy and bias in its portrayal of people from various countries in the Middle East.

Heba Amin illustrated a children's book Extraordinary Women in the Muslim World; the book received a Moonbeam Children's Book Award.

Heba Amin has taken part in group exhibitions at the Dak'Art Biennale 2016, Marakkech Biennale Parallel Projects 2016, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Camera Austria, Berlin Berlinale 9th Forum Expanded Exhibition, the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, the WRO 15th Media Art Biennale Poland, the National Gallery of Mongolia, and the Art Museum of Gotland Sweden.

Heba Amin has received a DAAD grant and a Rhizome commission grant and was shortlisted for the artraker prize.

Heba Amin taught at the University of Minnesota, American University in Cairo, and the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin.

Currently, Heba Amin is appointed as a professor of digital and time-based art at ABK Stuttgart.