Shayma Aziz

Shayma Aziz is visual artist, whose work combines traditional fine arts technicality with new media practices, focusing particularly on painting, sculpture, interdisciplinary projects and animation. Born in Asyut, Egypt. Shayma Aziz obtained her BFA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Luxor, where she
investigated representational formats in ancient Egyptian art before she moved to Cairo and actively engaged in its growing art scene for 17 years. She received several production and residency grants including Al Mawred Al Thaqafi’s Artist Production Grant, Centre d’Arte i Natura/Spanish Embassy in Cairo 2010 L’officina
Marseille 2011 and 3rd place prize at Caravan’s Global Mosaic exhibition 2019. She moved to New York in the spring of 2019 where she's currently based.
Her work has been exhibited widely, both in Egypt and abroad including exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Thessaloniki, Tehran, Beirut, Tunis, Terni, Amsterdam and
Marseilles. Some of her latest shows include her large scale ink painting series “A state of body” that was shown in 392 Rmeil 393 contemporary art gallery in Beirut
2016/ Goethe Institute in Cairo 2018, her drawing installation “Floating Over the Cairene Sky” that was exhibited in Cairo at Artel...

BFA in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts. Luxor

Solo to Trio exhibitions:

2018 A state of body, Goethe Institute, Cairo
2016 Fingers,verities, senses.with Leila Sbeiti and Maysa Abu Rahhal Gallery
392Rmeil393, Beirut
2014 Faces , Kafein Coffee/Gallery, Cairo
Confessions with Soad Abdelrasoul and Shayma Kamel Art Lounge gallery,
Cairo.
2012 Spectral Charecters in Cairo Town, New Cairo Atelier, Cairo
2011 Floating Over the Cairene Sky, Artellewa Arts Space, Giza
2009 Women in Black, Zico House, Beirut, Lebanon
2006 Contrast In Still Motion, 5th Floor Gallery. American University, Cairo
Diary of two women with Nurseren Tor, Hanager Art Gallery, Cairo
2005 Silent Images, Atelier du Caire, Cairo
2003 Drawings, Gezira Art Center, Cairo

Collaborative Art Projects:

2004 Joint street art project with German artist Carola Rumper, ground drawing
behind Luxor Temple, Luxor.
2003 “Her Şey Yalnızına Varır” with Turkish Poet Umit Ozkan; drawing/painting &
poetry book, Published on February 2004 by Gri Tasarim, Istanbul.

Group Exhibitions & Festivals:

2019 Creative Mosaic, Plaxall Art Gallery, New York
We Roam Freely, Pineapple Stu...