WAEL DARWEISH
Cairo, Egypt
Visual Artist, Researcher & Full Professor of Art Education
🌐 www.waeldarweish.com
✉️ waelarts@hotmail.com
PROFILE
Wael Darweish is an Egyptian contemporary visual artist, researcher, and Full Professor of Art Education based in Cairo. His interdisciplinary practice explores identity, memory, the body, and constructed realities through painting, mixed media, conceptual figuration, and visual narratives.
EDUCATION
2008 — PhD in Art Education, Faculty of Art Education, Capital University, Cairo, Egypt
2003 — MFA, Painting & Drawing Department, Faculty of Art Education, Cairo, Egypt
1998 — BA, Faculty of Art Education, Capital University, Cairo, Egypt
ACADEMIC POSITION
Full Professor of Art Education
Faculty of Art Education, Capital University, Cairo, Egypt
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Exception, Access Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2023 — Isthmus, Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo Opera House, Egypt
2023 — Half Dream!, Yassin Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2022 — I M …YOU!, Demi Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2022 — 25 Years of Art, Arteology Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2020 — Ambivalent Self, Blue Rhino Art Consultancy, London / Istanbul
SELECTED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS, BIENNALES & ART FAIRS
2025 — Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Casagiove, Italy
2025 — Ayla Contemporary Art Symposium, Aqaba, Jordan
2025 — Fifth International Biennial “With the Message to Rule Peace”, Serbia
2024 — International Festival of Contemporary Plastic Arts, Algeria
2023 — Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
2022 — Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Casagiove, Italy
2020 — The Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous Art, USA
2020 — Ars Gratia Artis Exhibition, Fundación Paurides, Spain
2019 — Naples International Art Symposium, Academy of Fine Arts, Naples, Italy
2019 — Miller Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
2019 — N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA
2018 — Sotheby’s / CARAVAN, London, United Kingdom
2018 — Örebro International Video Art Festival, Sweden
2016 — International Art Symposium, New Delhi, India
2015 — Moscow Art Fair, Gallery Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
2014 — Art14 London, Olympia, London, United Kingdom
2013 — 55th Venice Biennale, Maldivian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2013 — Abu Dhabi Art Fair, UAE
2013 — Christie’s Dubai, UAE
2013 — Art13 London, Olympia, London, United Kingdom
2010 — III Biennale of Art Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
2008 — Cairo International Biennale, Cairo Opera House, Egypt
2007 — Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
AWARDS & HONORS
2018 — Biennale Award, International Biennale & Art Symposium, Serbia
2018 — First Prize, Fine Arts Festival, Monastir, Tunisia
2010 — First Prize, Lind Art International Young Artists Fine Arts Colony, Slovenia
2003 — Grand Prize, 13th Salon of Young Artists, Cairo Opera House, Egypt
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Egyptian Museum of Modern Art
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, Greece
Gallery-Museum Lendava, Slovenia
Çankırı Karatekin University Collection, Turkey
Museum of Modern Art, Monastir, Tunisia