WAEL DARWEISH
Cairo, Egypt
Visual Artist, Researcher & Full Professor of Art Education
🌐 www.waeldarweish.com
✉️ Waelarts@hotmail.com
PROFILE
Egyptian visual artist based in Cairo. His interdisciplinary practice explores the construction of identity within contemporary society, focusing on the relationship between the human body, memory, and media culture in a globalized context. Working across painting, photography, and mixed media, he develops symbolic and narrative-driven compositions that merge realism, surrealism, and expressionism.
EDUCATION
PhD in Contemporary Painting Philosophy, 2008
MFA in Painting and Drawing, 2003
BA in Art Education, 1998
Faculty of Art Education, Capital University, Cairo, Egypt
ACADEMIC POSITION
Full Professor of Art Education, 2019 – Present
Faculty of Art Education, Capital University, Cairo, Egypt
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 — Isthmus, Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo Opera House
2022 — I Am You!, Demi Art Gallery, Cairo
2020 — Ambivalent Self (Online), Blue Rhino Art Consultancy
2017 — Visual Code, Cairo
2015 — The Prank, Dubai
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & BIENNIALS
2013 — 55th Venice Biennale, Maldivian Pavilion, Italy
2023 — Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens
2022 — Cairo Art Week
2020 — Luxor International Painting Symposium
2019 — N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, USA
2018 — Sotheby’s / Caravan, London
AWARDS
2018 — 1st Prize, International Fine Arts Festival, Tunisia
2010 — 1st Prize, Lind Art International, Slovenia
2003 — Grand Prize, Salon of Young Artists
COLLECTIONS
Egyptian Museum of Modern Art
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens