Born in Alexandria (Egypt) in 1961. He lives and works in Cairo.

Solo Shows: 2006 The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan, Entrapment, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy. 2005: The Echo, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, UK. 2004 Falaki Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. 2003 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Franco Riccardo Gallery, Napoli, Italy. Franco Riccardo Gallery, Napoli, Italy. “Espace-La Bodega" Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. 2001 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. 2000: Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris, France. 1999 Al Ahram House Gallery, London, UK. Akhnaton Gallery, Centre of Fine Art, Cairo, Egypt.

Group Shows excerpt from 2000 and forward: 2007: A.B.O., curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Bologna Artefiera, Bologna, Italy. 2006 :Another World. Bamako. 2005: La Centrale Electrique/European Center for Contemporary Art, Bruxelles, Belgium. AFRICA REMIX, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. Un autre monde – 6e édition de la photographie de Bamako, BnF, Paris, France. L'image révélée : de l'orientalisme à l'art contemporain, Musee de la Ville de Tunis, Palais kheireddine, Tunis.3a Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Japan. AFRICA REMIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Cross-Currents: Water as a Metaphor for (African) Identity?, Tufts University Art Gallery. Aidekman Arts Center, Talbot Avenue, Medford, USA.Ghosts of Self and State, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. CCA 94th Annual Conference, CCA – College Art Association, Boston, USA. 2005 Forming with Light, Palace of Art, Opera House, Cairo, Egypt. Bamako Biennale for African Photography, Mali. International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan. AFRICA REMIX, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Mediterranean Encounters, Sicily, Italy. 4x4, Artists Space, Broadway, New York, USA. Imagining the Book, Alexandria Library, Egypt. Sharjah Biennale, U.A.E., awarded the Grand Prize. Loose Your Identity, Kunstverein Kreis, Ludwigsburg, Germany. Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahea, Salvador, Brazil. French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria. AFRICA REMIX, Hayward Gallery, London, UK. 2004 Museo del Cristallo, Colle Val d’Elsa (Siena), Italy. La Forma delle Nuvole, ‘Arte all Arte 10’, curated by Achille Bonto Oliva and James Putnam, Montalcino, San Gimignano, Poggibonsi, Colle di Val D’Elsa, Siena, Buonconvento, Italy. Sneeze 80x80, Athens, Greece. Castello di Trani, Bari, Italy. Le Opera e I giorni, Triennale, Certosa di Padula, Italy. 25th Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil. Milly Pozzi Arte Contemporanea, Como, Italy. Bosane Biennale, South Korea. AFRIKA REMIX, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany. Dak’art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal. Awarded the Ministry of Culture Prize. 2003 ‘Miart’, Milano Art Fair, Milan, Italy. Bologna Art Fair, Bologna, Italy. Espacio Arte Contemporaneo Camargo, Spain. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany. Bologna Fair, Bologna, Italy. 2002 Unplugged, Arts Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria. Video Marathon, Chisinau, Moldova. Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea Premio Suzzara, Italy. Dakar Biennale, Senegal. Awarded The Biennale Prize 2002.You Can Touch, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt. 2001 Intresecus-Extrincus, Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy. Ambiente: Le Area Non Protette, Palazzo Pretorio Sala del Consiglio Communale, Sandrio, Italy. Cairo Modern Art Exhibition in Denhag, Holland. 8th International Cairo Biennale. Opera Arts Palace, Egypt. Awarded the Grand Prize.Participated with Martin McInally in Al Nitaq Festival, Downtown, Cairo, Egypt. Prize 2005.