Weaam El Masry is an Egyptian Cairo-Dubai based multi-award winning visual artist. She holds a PH.D. in media art from the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University. She is currently working as a Director of Art and Design at the University of East London, EUE Campus. She is a curator and co-founder of Easel and Camera contemporary art gallery located in Egypt.
Weaam El Masry’s work explores issues of her native society especially the position of women, relationships and religion, yet is timeless and universal. El Masry seeks to unravel that psychological pain, that longing for total freedom to fulfil the dreams and the ambitions, away from the shackles of a demanding and unforgiving society.
She is also a painter who at times moves to photography, animation and installation. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, Art Fairs, Biennales and museums locally and internationally notably; The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize 2024, the 30 shortlisted artworks will be on display at The Norval Foundation Art Museum, Cape Town, South Africa (14 February-15 May 2024), The AIR MUSEUM (30.7.-22.10.2023) Germany, “Nexus” at Verpackerei Gallery in Görisried, Germany (2023), Venice Biennale 59th. 2022, “Egypt International Art Fair” (2020), “The Sixth Silk Road International Arts Festival”, Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Fine Arts – China (2019), Beirut Art Fair (2018), the Biblical Book and Book-Object Biennale, 1st edition, National Literary Museum – Bucharest, Romania (2018), the 10th Luxor International Painting Symposium, The Egyptian Ministry Of Culture (Through Its Cultural Development Fund), Luxor, Egypt (2017), the Florence Biennale, Italy (2015), 5th Beijing International Art Biennale, China (2012), One Minute Film & Video Festival in Aarau, Switzerland (2008), The Egyptian Museum of Contemporary Art, and many group and solo exhibitions in Egypt and abroad.
