Biography
1974 Born in Luxor, Egypt and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2001 MFA in Painting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1997 BA in Art, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Bint El Nil, Tahrir Cultural Center, American University, Cairo, Egypt
2018 Of Thorns and Love, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 My Place is the Placeless, Artist Lab, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
2016 El Biet El Kabir, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2015 El Biet El Kabeer: Ollal, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Venice, CA
2013 Passages//Toroq, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2012 SouthwestNet: Sherin Guirguis & Carrie Merrill, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ
Duwamah, Frey Norris Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2010 Qasr El-Shoaq, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 New Suns, Paramo Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico
Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Into Action, Spring Street,Los Angeles, CA
2017 One I Call, Desert X Biennial, Palm Springs, CA
Mashrabiya: The art of looking back, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ease of Fiction, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Lift Off, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sanctuary, For-Site Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2016
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Ease of Fiction, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Ease of Fiction, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC
Islamic Art Now Part 2: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
2015
No Such Place, Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, NY
We Must Risk Delight, Official Collateral Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
C.O.L.A. 2015 Individual Artist Fellowships Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Uncommon Terrain, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Venice CA
2014
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Color Dialogues, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
LA Wood Show, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
2013
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Desaturated Rainbow, Field Projects, New York, NY
Desaturated Rainbow, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Culver City, CA
2012
Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Curltural Village, Doha, Qatar
Tessellation Make Up, CDA Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
Artist Protest Tower, Pacific Standard Time: Performance and Public Art Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Sweethearts, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2011
Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2010
2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, CA
Quadruple-Consciousness, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
Permissions, Highways, Santa Monica, CA
From My Universe: Objects of Desire, See Line Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Attention to Detail, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Under the Knife, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2008
Fall Out, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
Panopti(con), Bank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Las Vegas Diaspora, curated by Dave Hickey, Laguna Beach Art Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA
2007
Las Vegas Diaspora, curated by Dave Hickey, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
2006
New Work, Flower Shop Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
The Shape of Space, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Quickening, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscan, AZ
Sculpture: Bari Ziperstein, Sherin Guirguis and Carrie Ungerman, Bank, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
Our Voice: President Trump, tread lightly in national monuments review, the Desert Sun Editorial Board, The Desert Sun, May 6, 2017
Coachella Hosts Desert X: Things Out West, Scarlet Cheng, Artillery Magazine, May-June 2017
Desert X: Land art at the edge of the city, Shana Nys Dambrot, KCET ARTBOUND, March 17, 2017
At SFSU, Looking and Truly Seeing the Middle East Through Art, Roula Seikaly, KQED Arts, March 9, 2017
Windows on the World, Jonathan Curiel, SF Weekly, March 8, 2017
Roski Professor Speaks on the power of art, Rose Bueno, Daily Trojan, March 8, 2017
At Desert X, 16 Artists Make 45 Miles of the Coachella Valley Their Canvas, Maxwell Williams, Artsy, Feb 25th, 2017
“The Ease of Fiction” Four Contemporary African Artists, Negarra A. Kudumu, Art Radar, February 13, 2017
Desert X Treats Arid Space as a Rich Canvas, Jori Finkel, New York Times, February 24, 2017
Desert X aims to be the Coachella of the art world. Here's a sneak peek, Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2017
Between Truth and Fiction, Anuradha Vikram, Daily Serving, January 16, 2017
Museum Views: The Ease of Fiction …, Megan Abrahams, Fabrik, January 2017
2016
The Ease of Fiction, Critic’s Picks, Andrea Gyorody, ARTFORUM, December 2016
Sherin Guiguis aims to rebuild a link to the past…, Anna Seaman, The National, November 12, 2016
Sherin Guirguis: El Biet El Kabir, Islamic Arts Magazine, December 9, 2016
The Lure of LACMA, Bob Colacello,Vanity Fair, December 2016 Issue
Nor of the Land, Nor of the Sea, George Mitton, Funds Global MENA Magazine, Winter 2016
LA's African-American Museum Launches Bold Fall Season, Tom Teicholz, Forbes, November 2016
First Impressions of Frieze New York 2016, Ben Davis, Artnet, May 4, 2016
Forging Connections, Simon Balsom, Selections, October 27, 2016
2015
Risking Delight, Natalie Trevis, Mojeh, November 2015
Artist Profile: Sherin Guirguis, Shana Nys Danbrot, Art Ltd., November 2015
City Among Nation: Los Angeles at the Venice Biennale, Anuradha Vikram, www.kcet.org, May 27, 2015
Catalogue Essay, Dr Kathy Battista, 2015 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition Catalogue, May 2015
2014
Interview: Sherin Guirguis, Nosmot Gbadamosi, African Digital Art, January 2014
Best of 2013: Top 10 Solo and Retrospective Exhibitions, Islamic Arts Magazine, January 2014
2013
Long walk to freedom, Jyoti Kalsi, Gulf News, December 2013
Exploring new passages in art, Anna Seaman, The National, December 2013
Five must see exhibitions, What’s On, Dubai, Novembr 2013
Sherin Guirguis:Passages//Toroq, Geraldine Lee, Artitute, November 2013
Artful Passages, Yasmine El Rashidi, Passages//Toroq exhibition catalogue, October 2013
Sherin Guirguis, Alexandra Grant, The Benefit of Friends Collected, Winter 2013
At Home in Suburbia, James Scarborough, Brownbook, May/June 2013
Egypt: Art from Tahrir, by Myrna Ayad, Canvas Magazine, January/February 2012
Dr. Kathy Battista Speaks with Artist Sherin Guirguis, by Kathy Battista, Paddle 8, February 25th, 2013
2012
All about Arab art at Frieze, by Bianca Bonomi, The National, October 10, 2012
New exhibit puts new twist on traditional images, by Dolores Tropiano, The Republic, November 17, 2012
Five Must-See Events This Week, by Claire Lawton, The Phoenix New Times, September 24, 2012
Sherin Guirguis: Duwamah, by Marisa Fernandez, Premier Magazine, May 2012
Kathy Batista Curates Sweethearts, In*Tandem Magazine, Issue #8, April 2012
Paartherapeutisches Malen, By Anne Reimers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 2012
The Most Creative Couple in Art, by Katie Kitamura, Phaidon Online, March 16, 2012
Beyond the White Cube: Sherin Guirguis’ Explosive New Series, The Huffington Post, by Yasmine Mohseni, March 2012
Sherin Guirguis: Duwamah, by Dave Hickey, Catalog Essay, March 2012
2011
Quadruple-Consciousness: Vox Populi hosts performance-based critiques of American culture, by Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, December 2011
Quadruple-Consciousness, catalogue essay by Malik Gaines, December 2011
2010
Sober Pairs With Send-Ups in Biennial Exhibit, by Daniella Walsh, Laguna Beach Independent, November 26, 2010
Sherin Guirguis’ art may wobble…, radio interview by John Rabe, Off Ramp on KPCC, October, 27 2010.
Gender Bender!, by Grant Wahlquist, Riviera, October 2010
Exquisite Corpse, by Amir H. Fallah, Beautful/Decay, Book 4, Fall 2010
Previews: 2010 California Biennial, by Catherine Taft, ARTFORUM, September 2010.
Sherin Guirguis: LAXART, by Tucker Neel, Art Lies, Issue 66, Summer 2010
Studio Visit: Sherin Guirguis, by Amir H. Fallah, Beautiful/Decay, February, 2010.
2009
Exploring art’s complexities, by Michelle J. Mills, Pasadena Star News, March 19, 2009.
2007
Modern art and culture find a home in the distinctly American gambling capital with a showcase for 26 former UNLV students, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2007
Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From the Neon Homeland, Critic’s Pick: Las Vegas, by Glen Helfand, ARTFORUM, October 19, 2007
Migrant art workers: Dave Hickey’s students drift back into LVAM, by Jarret Keene, Las Vegas City Life, October 11, 2007
Two Views of Vegas Diaspora, By Danielle Kelly & Suzanne Forestieri, Las Vegas Weekly, October 4, 2007
Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From the Neon Homeland, Exhibition Catalog, essay by Dave Hickey, 2007
2005
Testing Spatial Sensibilities, by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, November 18th, 2005
Subversives in the corporate world, by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, August 26th, 2005
Bari Ziperstein, Sherin Guirguis and Carrie Ungerman at Bank, by Charlene Roth, Artweek (image), May, 2005
2004
Public enemies, by Kelle Schillaci, City Life, December 14th, 2004
The Enemy Within, by Chuck Twardy, Las Vegas Weekly, Dec. 9th – 15th, 2004
The Enemy Show, by Erika Yowell, Las Vegas Mercury, December 2nd, 2004
‘Midas’ and Jon Gintzler at POST, by Thomas McGovern, Artweek, February, 2004
2003
Raid In Chicago, by Terence Hannum, Panel-house.com, November 2003
Midas retouched: new looks at gold, by Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times, December 5th, 2003
Interior & Exterior Systems…, essay by Tim Christian, exhibition catalogue (image), April, 2003
Finding Beauty In Mistakes, by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times January 17th, 2003
2002
Women lost in their multimedia reveries, by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2002
Aperto: Las Vegas, by David Pagel, Flash Art International (image), March - April, 2002
2001
Futuristic Rorschach Blots, by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times (image), November 23rd, 2001
Junge Kunst, by Stephen Hilger, artnet.com, May, 2001
Awards, Grants, Fellowships + Residencies
2017 Artist Lab Residency, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica CA
Roski Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California
2016 Curators’ Award, Fellow of Contemporary art in support of solo project at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angles, CA
Roski Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California
2015 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship
2012 California Community Foundation Mid-Career Visual Artist Fellowship & Grant
Roski Faculty Research Grant, University of Southern California
Artists’ Resources for Completion Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation
2010 Nimoy Foundation Artist Residency , Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Museum & Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Las Vegas Museum of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
Metropolitan Authority Los Angeles, Public Art Commission, Los Angeles, CA
US Department of State, U.S. Consulate, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
