Mohamed Mandour

Egypt

Biography

Renowned ceramist Mohamed Khalil Mohamed Mandour was born in Egypt in 1950 in Fustat, Old Cairo, where he learned and worked in his early childhood in the conventional potteries of the area. In 1968, he joined an atelier in Helwan founded by the painter Saphia Hilmi Husien and the sculptor Mohamed Hagrass, and this set him on the road to creative notoriety, both in Egypt and globally.

Mohamed Mandour has received many awards for his work, including the award for ceramics at the Venice Biennale. His work is found all over Egypt and the world, including the Cairo Opera House, Four Seasons Hotel/Cairo, the homes of HRH Prince Charles and First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, the National Museum in Damascus, and other distinguished museums in Bahrain, Italy, and the USA.

He has held numerous solo-exhibitions throughout Egypt, the Arab World and in Europe, while remaining an active member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts in Egypt and the Cairo Atelier.

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