KHALED HAFEZ

Khaled Hafez is a Cairo-based visual artist; his practice spans the media of painting, installation, photography, video and experimental film. Born in Cairo in 1963, Hafez studied medicine and followed the evening classes of the School of Fine Arts in the 1980s. After attaining a master of science in medicine in 1992, he gave up his medical practice shortly after, in favor for a career in the arts. He later obtained a Master of Fine Arts in new media and digital arts from New York’s Transart Institute and the Danube University in Krems, Austria.

Hafez’ works were shown at the 55th, 56th and 57th Venice Biennales, at the 3rd Mardin Biennale, 6th Moscow

Biennale, 1st Trio Biennale in Rio De Janeiro, 1st Biennale del Sur in Caracas, 15th Fotofest Biennale, Houston; 11th Havana Biennale; 9th Bamako Photo Biennale; 8th Mercusol Biennale, Porto Allegre; Manifesta 8, Murcia; 12th Cairo Biennale; Dakar Biennale; 1st Singapore

Biennale, Sharjah Biennale; Guangzhou Triennale; Thessaloniki Biennale, as well as in Hiroshima MOCA; Uppsala Museum of

Art, Sweden; Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden; Tate Modern, London; Kunstmuseum Bonn; State Museum of Art, Thessaloniki; Herbert F. Jonson Museum of Art, Icatha, Queens Museum and the New Museum NY; as well as in Centre George Pompidou, Paris.

Hafez is a Fulbright Fellow (2005) and a Rockefeller Fellow (2009). In 2011, he was nominated and shortlisted for the Sovereign African Art Prize, and in 2012, he was nominated for the Prix Pictet, a global award in photography and sustainability.

Hafez was the prizewinner at the Dakar Biennale in Senegal in 2004 and the Bamako Photo Biennale in Mali in 2011.

Clockwise from top left:

Khaled Hafez

Angels Out , 2015

Mixed media on canvas

200 x 500 cm

Khaled Hafez

Flying Beatle , 2016

Mixed media on canvas

40 x 200

Khaled Hafez

Codes of Hermes (1) , 2015

Mixed media on canvas

80 x 120 cm

Khaled Hafez

Codes of Hermes (2) , 2015

Mixed media on canvas

80 x 120 cm

Images courtesy of the artist