Sherif Makki

Sherif Makki is an Egyptian contemporary artist based in Sydney, Australia. Born in Cairo in 1979, he studied Fine Arts at Minya University before building a two-decade career as an Art Director across Egypt and internationally. In 2020, he returned fully to his first practice, painting, developing a distinctive figurative language shaped by his background in both fine art and visual communication. His work explores identity, silence, human connection, and the tension between our inner lives and the roles we perform. Working primarily in acrylic on canvas, Makki creates stylised figures through layered colour, bold forms, patterned surfaces, and deliberately ambiguous skin tones. His work has been exhibited in Egypt and Australia and is held in private collections internationally.