Description
About me
Shayma Aziz is a visual artist, whose work combines traditional fine arts technicality with new media practices, focussing particularly on painting, sculpture, interdisciplinary projects and animation. Born in Asyut, Shayma Aziz obtained her BFA in
painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Luxor, Egypt where she investigated representational formats in ancient Egyptian art, before she moved to New York where she currently works and resides.
Her work has been exhibited widely, both in Egypt and abroad, including exhibitions in Berlin, New York, Thessaloniki, Tehran, Beirut, Budapest, Amsterdam and Marseilles. Some of her latest shows include her body portrait series “A state of body” that was shown in 392 Rmeil 393 contemporary art gallery in Beirut, her large scale drawing installation “Floating Over the Cairene Sky” that was exhibited in Giza, at Artellewa examining decay and the urban imagination, and “Women in Black” at ZicoHouse Beirut that mourns the disappearance of the female figure from public space in Arab cities.
Aziz’s work centralizes the moving body as a site of questions, driving her to collaborate with movement artists and performers, and to
produce movement-based still or moving visual work such as; ‘Take Me Back To Cairo’ performance-video, ‘Contrast in Still Motion’ drawing exhibition, or ‘Love Dance’ choreographic-animation. Her practice layers
different visual cultures, and offers access to see their intersections and distances through a constant representation of time in her painted images, and installed spaces. Her New York Live Arts performance event “At WAR(k)”looks at fallen bodies, the poetics of war murals, and different temporalities between labour, work, oeuvre and making memory.
Work / Education
Solo exhibitions:
2018 A state of body within Shubbak Al Fann program, Goethe Institute, Cairo
2016 Fingers,verities, senses.with Leila Sbeiti and Maysa Abu Rahhal Gallery 392Rmeil393,
Beirut
2014 Faces , Kafein coffeeshop/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 Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2006 Contrast In Still Motion, 5th Floor Gallery. American University, Cairo
Diary of two woman with Nurseren Tor, Hanager Art Gallery, Cairo
2005 Silent Images, Atelier du Caire, Cairo
2003 Drawings, Gezira Art Center, Cairo
Group Exhibitions & Festivals:
2018 Chouftouhonna festival for feminist art . Tunis
She “collective feminist exhibition”. Ibdaa Art Gallery, Cairo
2017 Cairo Art Fair , Arts Mart Gallery, Cairo
100 artists, Nout Art Gallery, Cairo
Form Through Light, Cairo Opera House, Cairo
2016 Live Ideas Festival, New York Live Arts, New York
2015 Dancing on the Edge Festival, Amsterdam
SuperMarket 2015,independent art fair Stokholm
Banalities of Evil, Austrian Cultural Forum, Cairo
Egyptian women artists , Austrian Cultural Forum, Cairo
BFA in painting from the faculty of fine arts. Luxor
