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Selected Artworks

Acrylic, embroidery and gel medium on canvas
Work: 101.6 x 121.9 cm
Unavailable
Acrylic, embroidery and gel medium on canvas
Work: 114.3 x 114.3 cm
Embroidery and gel medium on canvas
Work: 101.6 x 121.9 cm
Stainless steel
Work: 85.7 x 107.3 x 83.8 cm
Epoxy resin and acrylic
Work: 170.5 x 182.9 x 172.1 cm
Trimmed plants on stainless steel structure and teak bench
Unavailable
Resin planters, soil, plants
Approx: 310 x 260 cm
Trimmed grass and dug-out earth installation
Glazed ceramic
Work: 64.8 x 90.2 x 31.8 cm
Ceramic
Work: 34.3 x 50.8 x 30.5 cm
Glazed ceramic with porcelain inlay
Work: 61 x 53.3 x 45.7 cm

About

Ghada Amer image

Ghada Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 and moved to Nice, France when she was eleven years old. She remained in France to further her education and completed both of her undergraduate requirements and MFA at Villa Arson École Nationale Supérieure in Nice (1989), during which she also studied abroad at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts in 1987. In 1991 she moved to Paris to complete a post-diploma at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques. Following early recognition in France, she was invited to the United States in 1996 for a residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has since then been based in New York.

Amer’s wide-ranging practice spans painting, cast sculpture, ceramics, works on paper, and garden and mixed-media installations. Further, she often collaborates with her long-time friend Reza Farkhondeh. Recognising both that women are taught to model behaviors and traits shaped by others, and that art history and the history of painting in particular are shaped largely by expressions of masculinity, Amer’s work actively subverts these frameworks through both aesthetics and content. Her practice explores the complicated nature of identity as it is developed through cultural and religious norms as well as personal longings and understandings of the self.

Amer’s work is in public collections around the world including The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; the Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Samsung Museum, Seoul; among others. Among invitations to prestigious group shows and biennials—such as the Whitney Biennial in 2000 and the Venice Biennales of 1999 (where she won the UNESCO Prize), 2005 and 2007—she was given a midcareer retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York in 2008. Multiple institutions across Marseille, France are currently co-organising a retrospective for 2022 that will travel to the United States and Asia.

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Exhibitions

London Gallery
15 November - 22 December 2023
London Gallery
02 June - 28 June 2023

Films

Press & News

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Rejection happens, even to those at the top of their game. So how did they overcome it? This week, Egyptian artist Ghada Amer shares her Rejection Letter ahead of a new show at Goodman Gallery, London

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The fever of modern art is shining passionately in Seoul. ’ FRIEZE Seoul ’ , held for the second time this year, will be held at COEX in Samseong-dong from September 6th to 9th. Frieze Seoul is est...