Abeer Farid Shawky

Abeer Farid Shawky is an Egyptian visual artist whose work sits at the intersection of ancient symbolism and contemporary expression. Working in acrylic and mixed media, she builds paintings around flowing line — a signature language of movement that runs through hair, water, fire, and botanical form — animated by the symbols of pharaonic Egypt: the lotus, the Eye of Horus, the Ankh, solar cycles.
Her background is cinematic. Daughter of the legendary Egyptian actor Farid Shawky, she grew up inside a world where storytelling, image, and emotional truth were the currency of daily life. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Film Directing from the Academy of Arts in Cairo, and that training is visible in every canvas — in the way she frames a figure, controls negative space, and builds tension between stillness and movement.
Abeer's paintings center on the feminine — not as subject, but as force. Her women do not pose. They rise, resist, burn, and endure. The recurring motifs are not decorative; they are a visual language inherited from 5,000 years of Egyptian culture and filtered through one woman's personal history.
She has exhibited at the Cairo Opera House (solo exhibition, 2022), Al-Ahram Art Hall, Beit El-Sennari, the Academy of Art...

BA in film directing

Exhibitions Participated In:
* The 15th Arab Visual Artists Forum - Al-Ahram Art Hall (2018)
* "Lamasat": An exhibition of miniature artworks (December 2017)
* Ain Shams University Exhibition (2020), in collaboration with the Opera Protocol and Ain Shams University
* Solo exhibition "Eyes of the Soul" at Ziad Bakir Hall at the Opera (December 2022), featuring over 40 acrylic and mixed media paintings and photographs
* Egyptian varieties Monawaat Masrya at Academy of arts, egypt (October 2024).
* Ebdaat motakataa at beit elsinary (November 2024)
*"She who paints the sun" at the Egyptian embassy in Helisinki May 2025 with I was born a girl collaboration
*The 11th Arab and International Salt Forum for Fine Arts in Jordan September 2025
*"Her presence is a speaking color" at Salah Taher hall at the Opera house October 2025
*The cultural Geography of Arab arts exhibition 2026