Miray Michel

Born in Cairo in 2000, Miray is a self-taught Egyptian artist raised by the sea in Hurghada, with her artistic exploration expanding in 2024. She mainly uses collage and mixed media, drawn to their boundless possibilities for deconstruction and reconstruction. Inspired by the spirit of freedom, resistance, chaos, and the unseen, her work is primarily shaped by the questions, reflections, and challenges that occupy her, as well as her growing sense of identity and surroundings.

I approach art as a private—perhaps shared—sanctuary, where I connect with myself and with others on a deeply intimate level. I see art as the ultimate tool for reconfiguring the world, our surroundings, and the way we experience them. I believe that the true power of art lies in perception itself, and it has the ability to restore what the world, by its very nature, fails to offer.

- Self-taught artist
- B.A. in Mass Communication, Major in Public Relations and Advertising, Minor in Graphic Design

• 2025 – "Gen Z" Group Exhibition, Shelter Art Space, Alexandria, Egypt.
• 2025 – "Starting Point" Program (2nd edition) Launch Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Abla Art Foundation x Sawiris Foundation, Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum, Cairo, Egypt.
• 2025 – “Through their Eyes” Group Exhibition, B’sarya for Arts x SHE Arts Festival, Alexandria, Egypt.
• 2025 – “Through their Eyes” Group Exhibition, Ard Art Institution x SHE Arts Festival, The American University in Cairo Tahrir Square Campus, Cairo, Egypt.
• 2025 – “Echoes and Currents” Group Exhibition, Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
• 2025 – “Printed Nostalgia” Group Exhibition, Doha Fire Station, Doha, Qatar.
• 2025 – “Empower Her Art Forum”, featured by
Mashrabia Gallery of Cont. Art, Grand Egyptian Museum,
Cairo, Egypt.
• 2025 – “My Favorite Things 9” Group Exhibition,
Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
• 2024 – “Collective Canvas” Open Studio, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt.
• 2021 – “Naaema’s Office Is Bleeding ” Open Studio, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.