Biography – Khaled Hafez

Khaled Hafez

Is Egyptian-French visual artist, filmmaker, and educator. He is born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 where he currently lives and works. He studied medicine and followed the evening classes of the Cairo School of Fine Arts (Faculty of Fine Arts) in the eighties. After attaining a medical degree in 1987 and M.Sc. as a medical specialist in 1992, he gave up medical practices in the early nineties for a career in the arts. He later obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute (New York, USA) and Danube University Krems (Austria). Hafez practice spans the mediums of painting, film / video, photography, installation and interdisciplinary approaches. Hafez, a Fulbright Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and 2023 IASPIS Grant Holder, Stockholm, Sweden. Hafez occasionally curates visual arts and photography exhibitions for younger peers.

International Biennales Include:

57thVenice Biennale, Italy, 2017 (National Pavilion Grenada).
2^nd Asuncion Biennale, Paraguay, 2017.
Curitiba Biennale ‘17, Brazil, 2017.
56^th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2015 (Official Collateral Biennale Exhibition).
3^rd Mardin Biennale, Turkey, 2015.
6^th Moscow Biennale, Russia, 2015.
1^st Trio Biennale, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2015.
1^st Bienal del Sur, Caracas, Venezuela, 2015.
15^th FotoFest Biennale, Houston, USA, 2014.
55^th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2013 (National Pavilion Maldives).
11^th Havana Biennale, Cuba, 2012.
9^th Bamako Photo Biennale, Mali, 2011.
8^th Mercosul Biennale, Brasil, 2011.
12^th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010.
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010.
2^nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, 2009.
3^rd Guangzhou Triennale, China, 2008.
7^th Sharjah Biennale, UAE, 2007.
1^st Singapore Biennale, 2006.
6^th & 7^th Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2004 & 2006.

Hafez works & videos were shown at:

Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Museum, New Castle, 2023.
Sainsbury Center, Norwich, UK, 2022.
Pushkin National Museum of Art, Vladikavkaz, Russia, 2021.
Bogota Museum of Contemporary Art, Colombia, 2022.

Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey, USA, 2021.
Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New York, USA, 2021.
Museum of Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil, Egypt, 2019.
Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt, 2019.
Museuo Provincial de Holguin, Cuba, 2016.
American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, DC, USA, 2019.
Tirana National Art Gallery, Albania, 2016.
Kosovo National Art Gallery, 2016.
Crete Museum of Contemporary Art, 2016.
The Worker and the Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, 2015.
Uppsala Museum of Art, Uppsala, Sweden, 2014.
Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea, 2014.
National Gallery of Arts Tirana, Albania, 2014.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, USA, 2013.
Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Belgium, 2013.
Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2013.
British Museum, UK, 2012, 2021.
Havremagasinet Boden Konstcentrum, Sweden, 2012.
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, 2012.
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2011, 2013 & 2015.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2007 & 2011.
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2011.
Yuchengco Museum, Manila, Philippines, 2011.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , Icatha, NY, USA, 2010.
The New Museum NY, USA, 2010.
Casa Arabe, Madrid, 2010.
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2009.
The Queens Museum, NY, USA, 2008.
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2018.
MuHKA Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007 & 2011.
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2007.
Bamako National Museum of Art, Mali, 2007, 2011 & 2015.

Special Video Screening Programs

Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007.
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010 & 2012.

Film Festivals Include:

2^nd Arctic Moving Image & Film Festival – AMIFF 2017.
14^th Tirana International Film Festival, 2016.
41^st Rotterdam International Film Festival 2012.
15^th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, 2011.
CPH:DOX/ Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark, 2011.
17^th African Film Festival, New Museum, New York, USA, 2010.
8^th Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt, 2004.

Awards & Fellowships Include:

IASPIS Grant Holder, Stockholm, Sweden, 2023.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Art (FRSA), UK, 2022.
Fulbright Fellowship, USA, 2005.
Rockefeller Bellagio Fellowship, Italy, 2009.
Francophonie Prize, 6^th Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2004.
Fondation Blachere Video Prize, 9^th Bamako Photo Biennale, Mali, 2011.

Nominations Include:

2015 – Jameel Art Prize (long list)
2012 – The 4^th Prix Pictet Photography Prize (long list)
2011 – The Sovereign African Art Prize (Photography Shortlist)

Public Collections:  

Bogota Museum of Contemporary Art
The British Museum, London, UK
National Museum of Art, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia, Russia
National Center for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK 
MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium 
Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia 
Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy 
Mali National Museum, Bamako, Mali 
Maraya Art Centre, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
State Museum of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Museum of Modern Art, Cairo, Egypt

Curated:

2010 Realms of the Hyperreal: Contemporary Practices from Egypt; Jose Marti Memorial, Havana, Cuba.

2011 22^nd Salon of Young Egyptian Artists; Palace of the Arts & Museum of Modern Art, Cairo, Egypt.

2012 The Field Diaries: Egyptian Conflict Video Selection, French Institute Cairo, Egypt, and Bamako, Mali: Official Collateral Event to Bamako Photo Biennale.

2014 25^th Salon of Young Egyptian Artists; Palace of the Arts & Museum of Modern Art, Cairo, Egypt.

2021 Miscegenation: On That One Photograph…, part of 2^nd Cairo Photo Week, several Cairo locations, Organized by Photopia Egypt.

2021 Miscegenation: The Alexandria Chapter, Shelter Art Space, Alexandria, Egypt

2022 The Sea, Rehaf Batniji Solo Presentation, Institut Francais, Gaza, Palestine

Published / Authored

Egyptian Hyperreal Pop: The Rise of Hybrid Vernacular, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (October 8, 2012), ISBN-10: 3659254142, ISBN-13: 978-3659254147.

In Book Reference

2001 Maria Golia, Marilu Knode, William Wells and Janine van den Ende. Cairo Modern Art in Holland. The Hague: Fortis Circustheater Publications, 2001, 128–137. ASIN: B000Y2ALHG.

2005 Liliane Karnouk. Modern Egyptian Art 1910-2003. Cairo:

American University in Cairo Press, 2005, 240-241. ISBN-10: 9774248597 ISBN-13: 978-9774248597

2009 Martina Corgnati. Egitto: Profilo dell’arte Moderna e Contemporanea dei Paesi Mediterranei. Milano; MESOGEA Publishers, 2009, 95–96, 154. ISBN-10: 8846920775 ISBN-13: 978-8846920775

2009 Hossein Amirsadeghi, Salwa Mikdadi and Nada Shabout, eds. New Visions: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21^st Century. London: Trans Globe Publishing & Thames & Hudson, 2009. 142–145. ISBN-10: 0500976988 ISBN-13: 978-0500976982.

2009 Lisa Farjam & Saatchi Gallery. Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East. London: Booth Clibborn Editions, 2010, 60–61. ISBN-10: 1861543131 ISBN-13: 978-1861543134.

2010 Saeb Eigner. Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary

Art of the Arab World and Iran. London & NY: Merrel Publishers

Limited, 2010, 122. ISBN-10: 1858945003. ISBN-13: 978-

1858945002.

2011 P. Alonzo, A. Bieber, M. Hübner, G. Jansen, R. Klanten. Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism. Berlin: Gestalten, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 257. ISBN-10: 1861543131 ISBN-13: 978-1861543134.

2020 Venetia Porter, Natasha Morris & Charles Tripp, Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, The British Museum Collection, ISBN 978-0-7141-1195-7.

In International Academia

Barbara Gurrieri; Khaled Hafez: un artista egiziano tra video e pittura; Master thesis; Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania, Biennio Specialistico – Corso di Grafica; Supervisor Professor Martina Corgnati; a.a. 2005/06.

Simone Struth, Khaled Hafez: Grenzen und ihre Überschreitungen in der Serie Philadelphia Chromosome; Master Thesis; LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITÄT MÜNCHEN, Fakultät für Geschichts und Kunstwissenschaften, Institut für Kunstgeschichte; Supervisors Professors Avinoam Shalem & Burcu Dogramaci; year 2012.

Serena Coccoli; Khaled Hafez e la scena artistica contemporanea in Egitto; Master Thesis; Sapienza Università di Roma, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Studi Storico-Artistici; Supervisor Professor Ilaria Schiaffini, co-supervisor Professor Antonella Sbrilli; year 2012-2013.

Alongside 65 academic mentions in peer reviewed journals on academia.edu, link: https://www.academia.edu/mentions?from_navbar=true&trigger=nav