Ayda Mansour

Biography 

Ayda Mansour was born in Cairo, Egypt into an artistic family, with a grandmother an established artist, curator, gallery owner and interior decorator and uncle who is an award-wining photographer. Mansour grew up immersed in art, always surrounded by creativity and imagination. After graduating from the American School in Cairo, she completed her Bachelors degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal. Mansour graduated with distinction in 2012 and went on to working at an art gallery specialized in Canadian masters, for the following 5 years. Mansour held several exhibitions in; Montreal, Cairo, Portugal, Washington DC and New York City. In 2016 Mansour also participated in the Tokyo Art Fair.

Mansour mainly paints large-scale abstract works that buzz with texture and light. Her journey from realism to surrealism to abstraction began in 2011 with the upheaval of the Egyptian revolution, in which she began to explore how to represent emotions, like fear, in her art. She shifts between different mediums; oils, acrylics, collage and pastels, using different tools to create interesting textures. In her recent works, Mansour has began including figures and pronounced subjects, moving towards representational p...

CAIRO AMERICAN COLLEGE Cairo, Egypt
American school (middle and high school)
American Diploma and International Baccalaureate Diploma

Graduated in 2008, with Honors

Awards
Best Fine Arts Student, Cairo American College June 2007

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Montreal, Canada
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Arts

Graduated in 2012, with Distinction

Solo Exhibition - “ The Revolution,” Cairo, Egypt - 2011

Solo Exhibition - “ Emotions” Montreal, Canada - 2014

Solo Exhibition - Cairo, Egypt - 2015

Group Exhibition - “ The Verve of Abstraction” New York, United States - 2015

Solo Exhibition - “ An Emotional Palette” Washington Dc, United States - 2015

Group Exhibition - “ Fragmented Reality” New York, United States - 2016

Group Exhibition - “ Tokyo International Art Fair” Tokyo, Japan - 2016

Solo Exhibition - “ Flowers in Abstract” Cairo, Egypt - 2016

Group Exhibition - Lisbon, Portugal - 2017

Group Exhibition - “Absolut Vodka Competition” Cairo, Egypt - 2018

Work hung in the Presidential Suite at the Ritz Carlton Montreal, Canada - 2017-2019

PUBLICATIONS

Current Masters - Volume I

ARTisSpectrum Magazine - Volume 33