Yasser Rostom is an Egyptian surrealist artist, born in 1971. He lives and works in Cairo. He graduated in 1998 from the Faculty of Arts Education in Cairo with a BFA and completed his PhD in 2005 in Painting. Rostom’s intricate socio-, cultural and political works on paper are a means to critique the hypocritical aspects of our culture or to celebrate the genuine aspects of it. Rostom creates striking and at times bizarre images in his surrealist work, employing extensive symbolism.
