Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, currently a practicing artist based in KC, MO. Her work ranges between various mediums such as painting, ceramics, and photography. She usually combines two or more mediums to build installation based work, with that she intends to make a visual relationship between the objects and the space it is installed in.
About the Artist:
Artist Statement:
Documentation has always been the main motive behind making work, the need to encapsulate moments and memories before they become part of the past is vital to my studio practice. Because making with clay becomes a permanent record of time –especially with its ties to the earth – I have found ceramics to be my preferred method of documentation alongside painting and photography. Huge quantities of beads strung together were the result of my lifelong inspiration by Egyptian jewelry. As I make these beads, each individual one marks a moment in time, a memory, a place where I live and work, and so do the paintings. The installation in the end becomes a collective portrayal of my history.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Let The Sun In, Charmed Gallery, Kansas City, MO '25.
Baby I Left My Heart in The Hot Box, Richard J. Stern Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO '24.
Slicing, Dicing, Pinching, Poking, Richard J. Stern Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘23.
Mud, Richard J. Stern Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘23.
Crusty, Musty, Lusty, Richard J. Stern Building, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘22.
Scan: Object and Image, Lester Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘22.
Ground Rules, Lester Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘22.
My Most Concrete Stag, Lester Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘22.
Side Hustles, Lester Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute , Kansas City, MO ‘21.
All or Nothing, Lester Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘21.
35th League for Innovation, Dallas College Art Students Competition, Cliff Gallery, Dallas, TX ‘21.
HONORS & AWARDS
Leslie Hendrix Scholarship, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘22- ‘21.
Notkin Ceramics Award, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘22.
Kansas City Art Institute President’s Honorable Mention List, Kansas City, MO ‘21. Kansas City Art Institute Professor’s Scholarship, Kansas City, MO ‘21.
Berding Fordham Jones Award, Issued by The Cecil Wallace Foundation Award in Visual Arts, Dallas, TX‘20.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Studio Assistant, Jason Pollen Fiber Studio, Kansas City, MO '25- present.
Art Handling Assistant, Sean Whalen Art Handling LLC, Kansas City, MO '25.
Gallery Installation Tech, Kansas City Art Institute gallery, Kansas City, MO '25.
Gallery Assistant, Kansas City Art Institute gallery, Kansas City, MO ‘22-'24.
Digital publishing intern, Durwood internship, French Paintings Department, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO ‘22-’23.
Curatorial Assistant, Lester Goldman Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO ‘21- ‘22.
Studio Assistant to the artist Jen Rose Ceramic Studio, Dallas, TX ‘20-'21.
Studio Organizer to the artists; Marian Lefeld, Anna Membrino, Dallas, TX ‘20- ‘21.
Creative Designer, Co.Jones Creative Marketing, Remote Freelance, Dallas, TX ‘20- ‘21.
PRESS
Voyage Dallas Magazine, Local stories ‘19.
EDUCATION
Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Art, in Ceramics, Kansas City, MO.
Dallas College, Associate of Arts, Dallas, TX.