Khaled Hafez
is born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 where he currently lives and works. He studied medicine and followed the evening classes of the Cairo fine arts in the eighties. After attaining a medical degree in 1987 and M.Sc. as a medical specialist in 1992, he gave up medical practices in the early nineties for a career in the arts. He later obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute (New York, USA) and Danube University Krems (Austria).
International shows include:
9th Bamako Photo Biennale, Mali, 2011
8th Mercosul Biennale, Brasil, 2011
12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010
2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, 2009
3rd Guangzhou Triennale, China, 2008
7th Sharjah Biennale, UAE, 2007
1st Singapore Biennale, 2006
6th & 7th Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2004 & 2006
Hafez works were shown in:
State Museum of contemporary art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2011
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2011
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Sao Paolo, Brasilia & Rio, 2010 & 2011
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
, Icatha, NY, USA, 2010
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France, 2010
The New Museum NY, USA, 2010
Casa Arabe, Madrid, 2010
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2009
The Queens Museum, NY, USA, 2008
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France, 2008
Tate Modern, London, UK, 2007
MuHKA Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2007 & 2011
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2007
Bamako National Museum of Art, Mali, 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark, 2007 & 2011
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2010 - First Temple of Flight, Almasar Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2010 - Gods & Superheroes, Galleria Luz & Suarez, Madrid, Spain
2008 - Desert Snow & other stories, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy
2007 - More Chromosomes, Galleria Il Divano Di George, Modena, Italy
2006 - North-East to South-West, Espace Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon
2006 - Philadelphia Chromosome, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy
2006 - Kartomania & Tout-en-Karton, French Cultural Center, Cairo
2005 - French memories, CCM Jean Gagnant, Limoges, France
2005 - African Memories, Chantiers de la Lune, Toulon, France
2004 - Kartonopolis & some 10 years later, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2002 - Nut, the President’s Necktie & Batman, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2000 - Icons of the Second Floor, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
1999 - Halfway Home & the Electronic Gods, Guezira Art Center, Cairo
1999 - Faster Than the City, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
1998 - Visions of a Rusty Memory, Cairo-Berlin Gallery, Cairo
1998 - Unimportant Items Cairo, Atelier, Cairo
1992 - Steps on Desert Sands, Akhenaton III Gallery, Cairo
1990 - Prisoner of Freedom, Cairo Atelier, Cairo
1989 - A Tale of Two Leos, Nile Gallery, Cairo
1987 - Délires French Cultural Center, Cairo
Public Collections:
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy
Mali National Museum, Bamako, Mali
Maraya Art Centre, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE