Shayma Aziz

Egypt

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shaymaiz@gmail.com

Biography

Shayma Aziz is an international visual artist, whose work combines traditional fine art skills with new media practice, focusing particularly on painting, video and animation. She was born in Asyut, Egypt in 1981 and obtained a BFA in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Luxor, Egypt in 2004 and now lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.

Aziz has exhibited widely, both in Egypt and abroad, including exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Thessaloniki, Tehran, Beirut, Budapest and Marseilles. In 2012 her series “Spectral Characters in Cairo Town” was exhibited in New Cairo Atelier in a solo exhibition.

An important part of Aziz’s practice involves participation in international residency programmes (including those in Italy and France) where she is able to bring her own skills and knowledge as a Egyptian artist and engage with local communities and artists around the world, bringing the knowledge she gains back to artists in Egypt and developing her work within an international framework.

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