Nazir Tanbouli

Nazir Tanbouli spent the first 30 years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. Coming from a family of painters, he began to work in his uncle's atelier from the tender age of 2 years old. He studied Expressive Art as formal education at Alexandria University for five years and went on to exhibit widely in Egypt and abroad, and also to begin a career as a mural painter.Tanbouli moved from Alexandria to the UK and completed an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, London, focusing on screen printing and book art. He continues to work in drawing, painting, book art and mural. He is based in London.

2013 - Studio Ceramics, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK.
2009 - 2010 M.A. Fine Art (Printmaking), Camberwell College of Art, London, UK.
1989 - 1994 B.A. Expressive Arts, Alexandria University Academy of Fine Art, Egypt.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 "Orientophobia" Hackney Downs Studios London
2011 "Keeping Afloat" La Clinica Mundana, Valencia Spain
2011 “Haggerston Mural” Whiston Road London
2010 “Paper Murals” Wilson Road Gallery , Camberwell College of Art
2009 "Baptism of Hailstones" Surface Gallery, Nottingham.
2008 "Private Nightmares" Redgate Gallery, London.
2008 "Constructed Mythologies" Whitewall, Milton Keynes Contemporary.
2006 "Men and Insects" solo mural project. Rich & Famous Gallery, London.
2006 Solo exhibition, De Montfort Hall, Leicester.
2005 "Nazir Tanbouli" Solo exhibition, Factory-Berlin, Berlin.
2005 “3 Films by Nazir Tanbouli” The Collection, Usher Gallery, Lincoln.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 "The Wall" Hackney Downs Studios London
2012 "ONEIROI" Southend Film Festival
2012 "Vinyl" Cultivate Vyner Street, London
2011 7th Moscow Book Art Fair
2010 "The Freaks" Shoreditch Town Hall, London
2010 "Seven Men in London Town" Redgate Gallery, London.
2010 "Nazir Tanbouli and Jai Llewellyn," Wilson Road Gallery, Camberwell College of Art
2009 "Beyond Borders: London and New York" AEStudios Gallery, New York City.
2009 "Tales from the Electric Forest" St Pancras Crypt Gallery, London.
2009 “Prospero's ...