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KHALED HAFEZ KHALED HAFEZ

KHALED HAFEZ, Egypt (1963)

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Born in 1963, in Cairo, Egypt, Khaled Hafez was a medical doctor before he dropped medicine to follow a career in the visual arts. While studying medicine, he attended evening classes in fine arts...

Born in 1963, in Cairo, Egypt, Khaled Hafez was a medical doctor before he dropped medicine to follow a career in the visual arts. While studying medicine, he attended evening classes in fine arts at the Cairo School of Fine Arts in the eighties. Hafez earned a medical degree in 1987 and M.Sc. as a medical specialist in 1992. He later obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute in New York, USA, and Danube University Krems in Austria. An interdisciplinary artist, his practice spans across painting, photography, film making, and installation. Hafez is a Fulbright Fellow and Rockefeller Fellow.

Growing up in Egypt in the mid-seventies in a society that was reshaped by globalization and consumerism left a significant mark on the artist. Besides, the country has been subjected to substantial economic and political upheavals since then. As such, Hafez examines the erosion of cultural values and traces the evolution of social trends in the recent history of Egypt. He critiques people who have embraced materialistic and individualistic values associated with Western cultures. In his multifaceted body of work, Hafez hints to factors central in the formation of identity and cultural development.

Mythology, fiction, and sarcasm are central to Hafez's work. His paintings, mixed-media works, and collage-like videos straddle perceived barriers between East and West. In his body of work, Hafez hints at the core of contemporary Egyptian identity. Creating composite images, Hafez mixes international pop culture figures with ancient Egyptian Gods, of whom God Anubis, with his Jackal's head, is a star. Moreover, the artist reflects on Egypt's rich ethnic and religious panorama through overlapping symbolic images. Onto his collaged canvases, Hafez introduces photos of contemporary soap operas, movie icons, top models, along with corrupt politicians. Hafez adopts old yellowed paper in his work either naturally aged with time or artificially by excessive solar exposure or actual burning. It is symbolic of a mummified past and a deteriorating present. Hafez's assemblage hints to 'cultural recycling,' as the artist puts it - elements of the past that resurface and inform the present.

Khaled Hafez currently lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. 

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CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

Realms of the Hyperreal, Nome Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2015

A Temple for Extended Days, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Codes of Hermes, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States of America

2013

Moving Forward by The Day, Meem Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Unhealed, Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden

2020

20 in 2020: Part 2: 2011 to 2020 International Focus, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States of America
ONLINE Nome: A Lexion, Nome Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2018

 Un œil ouvert sur le monde Arabe, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

2017

Evidentiary Realism, Nome Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The 57thVenice International Art Biennale – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The 2ndAsuncion International Biennale – II Bienal Internacional de Asunción,Paraguay

2015

The 56thVenice International Art Biennale– La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The 3rdMardin International Biennial, Mardin, Turkey
The 6thMoscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2014

The 15thFotofest Biennale, Houston, Texas, United States of America

2013

The Shadows Took Shape, The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, United States of America
The 55thVenice International Art Biennale - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2012

The 41stRotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The 11thHavana Biennale – The Biennial de la Habana, Havana, Cuba

2011

Selections from the Samawi Collection, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe 9thBamako Photo Biennale, Bamako, Mali
The 8thMercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil 

2010

The 12thInternational Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
Manifesta 8, Manifesta Foundation, Murcia, Spain

2009

The 2ndThessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece

2008

The 3rdGuangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou, China

2007

The 7thSharjah International Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 

2006

The 1stSingapore International Biennale, Singapore
The 7thDakar International Biennale, Dakar, Senegal

2004

The 6thDakar International Biennale, Dakar, Senegal

Publications

2012

Khaled Hafez, Egyptian Hyperreal Pop: The Rise of Hybrid Vernacular

Awards and Honors

2011

The Foundation Blachere Video Prize at the 9thBamako Photo Biennale, Mali

2004

The Francophonie Prize at the 6thDakar Biennale, Senegal

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom
MuHKa Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Mali National Museum, Bamako, Mali
State Museum of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy

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Documents
Selections magazine.pdf
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Press
Nome _ Khaled Hafez.pdf
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A temple for extended days  GulfNews.com.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_ Intervew with PredragPajdic_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_Interview with MaymanahFarhat for Online Magazine_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_ Interview with Kinsey KatchkaCurator of North Caroline Musuems of Art_Press .pdf
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خالد حافظ يبني جيلا مصريا من التشكيليين المعاصرين.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_Interview with MaryamHamdyCritic and Blogger_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_Interview with TaceBayliss_ThinkAfricaOnlineMagazine_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_Interview with Heba Kayal _ Tache Gallery Blog_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_Interview with Jenny Meier_Press.pdf
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Ahram Online - Khaled Hafez- Living Art.pdf
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طباعة الاخبار-الفنان خالد حافظ_ سأقاضى من اتهمونى بالتطبيع.pdf
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AlDoha Magazine.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_KhaledHafez interview with SophieKazan _Harper_s Bazar Magazine_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_Interview with Omar Donia for Art AbuDhabi_Press_2013.pdf
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KhaledHafez_KhaledHafezwith simone toellner for the artist video installation_Press .pdf
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KhaledHafez_Khaled HafezInterview with Simone Struth for research purposesMunich_Press.pdf
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Hikayat_4-11-2012.pdf
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Khaled Hafez _ Barjeel Art Foundation.pdf
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KhaledHafez_Interview with artist Khaled Hafez _Cairo Post_Press.pdf
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KhaledHafez_Artist Statment_press.pdf
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KhaledHafez_LeDicotomieDiKhaled Hafez_REVOLUTION ART_Press.pdf
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Art captures the rush of Egypt_s revolution  Art and design  The Guardian.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_WideWalls_Press.pdf
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Khaled Hafez_A Temple for Extended Days _My Art Guides_Press.pdf
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الفنان المصري خالد حافظ_ مشروعاتي الفنية تبدأ من المرسم - BBC News عربي.pdf
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Khaled_Hafez_and_the_art_of_Revolution___CP 2.pdf
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خالد حافظ_ صالون الأهرام الأول يوازى فاعليات وزارة الثقافة - بوابة الأهرام.pdf
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Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez’s “A Templ...at new Ayyam Gallery Dubai  Art Radar.pdf
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Exhibitions
ETERNAL LIGHT- SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
Eternal Light – London Edition
CARAVAN

KHALED HAFEZ Artwork

Moving Forward by the Day I

KHALED HAFEZ, Egypt, 2013
199.5 x 250.5 cm

Berlin Angels

KHALED HAFEZ, Egypt, 2013
210 x 272.5 cm

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