SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Here I Have Returned, The Minnesota Museum of America Art, St Paul, MN
Bint El Nil, Tahrir Cultural Center, American University, Cairo, Egypt
2018 Of Thorns and Love, Craft Contemporary (Craft and Folk Art Museum ), Los Angeles, CA
2017 My Place is the Placeless, Artists 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
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Desert X Biennial, Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
2019 Reimagined Narratives, El Muiz Street Complex, Art D’Egypte, Cairo, Egypt
B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press, University Art Museum California State University, Long Beach, CA
2018 New Suns, Paramo Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico
Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Into Action, Spring Street,Los Angeles, CA
2017 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
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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Las Vegas Museum of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Authority Los Angeles, Public Art Commission, Los Angeles, CA
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
US Department of State, U.S. Consulate, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND REVIEWS
2020 Saudi Politics Unsettlean Exhibition, by Vivian Yee, The New York Times,
February 11, 2020
From California to Saudi Arabia: Desert X lands in Al Ula, by Stephanie D’Arc Taylor,
London Evening Standard, February 10, 2020
DESERT X ALULA：沙漠中的艺术展, wap.art.ifeng.com, February 10, 2020
L’arte contemporanea nel deserto dell’Arabia Saudita, Sky Arte, February 7, 2020
Arte monumentalen la inmensidad del desierto, by Ivan De Moneo, El Viajero,
February 7, 2020
We Had the Guts to Say Yes to This’: Artists Explain Why They Ignored Widespread Censure to Participate in Desert X’s Saudi Edition, by Rebecca Anne Proctor,
Artnet, February 6, 2020
Shifting sands: An art exhibition, a desert landscape and an insight into Saudi society,
by Stephanie d’Arc Taylor, The Independent, February 6, 2020
Art and culture collide at this historical hot spot, by Elaine Lloyd-Jones, Mojeh,
February 6, 2020
Desert x al ula presenta instalaciones al aire libre, by Fernando Huacuz Cruz,
All City Canvas, February 5 , 2020
Desert X AlUla: Striking Art Installations Across The Historic Saudi Arabian Valley,
by Gabrielle Leung, HYPERBEAST, February 5, 2020
Desert X installs 14 site-specific works in Saudi Arabian desert, by Natashah Hitti,
Dezeen, Februrary 5, 2020
Gosh, that’s beautiful! Do you mind who funded it?, Melissa Gronlund, The Times UK,
February 5, 2020
Desert X Al Ula in pictures — art flowers in the desert, by Melissa Gronlund,
The Times UK, February 5, 2020
This is a living museum interacting with nature, by Melissa Gronlund, The National,
February 3, 2020
In Pictures: The sculptures of Desert X AlUla: Spectacular sculpture biennial Desert X
AlUla is bringing contemporary art to the Saudi Arabian desert,
Architectural Digest Middle East, February 2, 2020
An Extraordinary Exhibition Launches In Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Region, by Ayesha Sohail
Shemir Shaihk, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, February 2, 2020
Desert X AlUla: The Art Event Enticing Travelers To The Desert Of Saudi Arabia,
by Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, January 31, 2020
desert X AlUla sets art across the heart of historic saudi arabian trade route,
by Brian Shim, Designboom, January 31, 2020
This ethereal sculpture show is connecting cultures through contemporary art in AlUla,
by Mark C. O’flaherty, Architectural Diget Middle East, January 30, 2020
Check out these Twin Cities Exhibits and Shows before they disappear, by Becki Iverson,
Thrillist, January 30, 2020
I Am Not Part of Some Propaganda Machine’: Artists and Curators Defend Their Participation in the Saudi-Backed Show Desert X AlUla, by Rebecca Anne Proctor,
January 29, 2020
2019 Reimagined Narratives exhibition in Historic Cairo has a story to tell, by Nevine El Aref,
Al Ahram Weekly, November 14, 2019
At Art D’Égypte, contemporary artists are reimagining ancient world narratives, by Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Wallpaper, November 6, 2019
Interview with artist Sherin Guirguis: On the stories between places, by Soha El Sirgany, AMARNA Collection, October 2, 2019
In Egypt, Forgotten Feminist Doria Shafik Brought Back to Life by Sherin Guirguis, by Lou Mamlet, Kawa News, February 27, 2019
Manifesting the Unseen, by Mahmoud Saber, Qantara, February 25, 2019
Tahrir Cultural Center Celebrates Feminist Icon Doria Shafik, by Monica Naguib, The Caravan, February 25, 2019
The woman and the body, near and far from ideology: paintings by Huda Lutfi and Sherin Guirguis, Al Ahram News, February 15, 2019
The Daughter of the Nile: The TCC’s women empowering exhibition, Daily News Egypt, February 11, 2019
AUC Celebrates One Hundred Years in Egypt, Al Bawaba, February 11, 2019
The AUC Opens two exhibitions of Huda Lutfi and Sherin Guirguis, El Ballad News, February 7, 2019
Highlights from Sherin Guirguis: Bint El Nil, Arab News, February 7, 2019.
Tahrir Cultural Center opens with a celebration of feminism and fantasy, Anna Seaman, The National, February 5, 2019
Art Alert: Tahrir Cultural Centre opens with exhibition by Huda Lutfi and Sherin Guirguis, Al Ahram, January 28, 2019
An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line, By Neal Broverman, Los Angeles Magazine, January 22, 2018
2018 At the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Three Artists Use Their Work to Call for Change, Lisa Beebe, LA Weekly, October 11, 2018
Sol LeWitt and 'Conceptual Feedback' at Honor Fraser Gallery, Christopher Knight, LA Times, March 28, 2018
2017 Crtic’s Picks:The Ease of Fiction, Andrea Gyorody, ARTFORUM, May 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
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
Desert X: the arid exhibition that's bringing land art to Coachella, Janelle Zara, The Gaurdian, February 28, 2017
Why Desert X Is the World's Newest Must-Visit Art Fair, John Gendall,
Architectural Digest, February 27, 2017
Desert X Has Turned the Coachella Valley Into an Open-Air Art Gallery, Liz Ohanesian,
LA Weekly, February 28, 2017
At Desert X, 16 Artists Make 45 Miles of the Coachella Valley Their Canvas,
Maxwell Williams, Artsy, Feb 25th, 2017
That Mirage at Coachella Isn't Beyoncé, It's Desert X, Stephanie Eckardt,
W Magazine, February 26, 2017
Desert X Treats Arid Space as a Rich Canvas, Jori Finkel, New York Times,
February 24, 2017
Between The Lines; Art, Women and Africa, Ladi'Sasha Jones,Intense Art Magazine,
Issue #03 | Nigeria, 2017
“The Ease of Fiction” Four Contemporary African Artists, Negarra A. Kudumu,
Art Radar, February 13, 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 Sherin Guiguis aims to rebuild a link to the past…, Anna Seaman,
The National, November 12, 2016
The Lure of LACMA, Bob Colacello,Vanity Fair, December 2016 Issue
The Ease of Fiction, Critic’s Picks, Andrea Gyorody, ARTFORUM, December 2016
Sherin Guirguis: El Biet El Kabir, Islamic Arts Magazine, December 9, 2016
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
2014 Best of 2013: Top 10 Solo and Retrospective Exhibitions, Islamic Arts Magazine,
January 2014
Interview: Sherin Guirguis, Nosmot Gbadamosi, African Digital Art, 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, November 2013
Sherin Guirguis:Passages//Toroq, Geraldine Lee, Artitute, November 2013
Egypt: Art from Tahrir, by Myrna Ayad, Canvas Magazine, January/February 2012
Sherin Guirguis, Alexandra Grant, The Benefit of Friends Collected, Winter 2013
At Home in Suburbia, James Scarborough, Brownbook, May/June 2013
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, by Yasmine Mohseni,
The Huffington Post, March 2012
2011 Quadruple-Consciousness: Vox Populi hosts performance-based critiques of American
culture, by Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, December 2011
2010 Sober Pairs With Send-Ups in Biennial Exhibit, by Daniella Walsh,
Laguna Beach Independent, November 26, 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
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, 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
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, 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
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
2019 When you Pierce, you see through, Mia Laufer, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN
The Artists of Al-Mu’iz Street: An Introduction, Dr Venetia Porter, Senior Curator, British
Museum, Art D’Egypte, Cairo, Egypt
Bint El Nil/Daughter of the Nile, Dr Shiva Balaghi, Tahrir Cultural Center, American University Cairo, American University Press, Cairo, Egypt
2018 Of Thorns and Love, Holy Jerger, Exhibition Curator, Craft Contemporary (Craft and Folk
Art Museum ), Craft Contemporary (Craft and Folk Art Museum ) and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sherin Guirguis: Spaces of Feminist Action, Anuradha Vikram, Director, !8th Street Arts
Center, Craft Contemporary (Craft and Folk Art Museum ) and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
House Arrest, Dr Andy Campbell, Assistant Professor, USC Roski School of Art and
Design, Craft Contemporary (Craft and Folk Art Museum) and Fellows of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Constructing an Egyptian Feminist-Futurism, Heba El Kayal, Craft Contemporary (Craft
and Folk Art Museum and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Interview with Dr Aziza Ellozy and Sherin Guirguis, Heba El Kayal, Craft Contemporary
(Craft and Folk Art Museum) and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Interview with Dr Jehane Ragai and Sherin Guirguis, Heba El Kayal, Craft Contemporary
(Craft and Folk Art Museum) and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017 My Place is the Placeless, Anu Vikrum Artist Lab, Director, 18th Street Art Center,
Santa Monica, CA
2012 SouthwestNet: Sherin Guirguis & Carrie Merrill, Cassandra Coblentz, Scottsdale Museum
of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ
Sherin Guirguis: Duwamah, Dave Hickey, Frey Norris Contemporary, San Francisco,
CA March 2012
2017 One I Call: Interview with Curator Neville Wakefiled, Desert X Biennial 2017,
Palm Springs, CA
Sanctuary, For-Site Foundation, Fort Mason Chapel (traveling),San Francisco, CA
2015 Sherin Guirguis COLA Fellow, Catalogue Essay, Dr Kathy Battista, 2015 COLA Individual Artist Fellowship Exhibition Catalogue, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles,
CA, May 2015
La Biennale di Venezia 2015, Official Collateral Exhibition, We Must Risk Delight,
Elizabeta Betinski, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2013 Artful Passages, Dr Yasmine El Rashidi, Passages//Toroq Exhibition catalogue,
The Third Line Gallery, Dubai UAE, October 2013
2011 Quadruple-Consciousness, Catalogue Essay, Dr Malik Gaines, Vox Populi, Philadelphia,
PA, December 2011
2010 2010 California Biennial, Catalogue Essay, Sarah Bancroft, Orange County Museum of
Art, Newport, CA
2009 Under the Knife, Catalogue essay, Sinead Finnerty-Pinn, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2007 Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From the Neon Homeland, Catalogue
essay, Dave Hickey, Las Vegas Art Museum, 2007
2003 Systems of Interiors & Exteriors For Better Living, Catalogue essay,Tim Christian,
Nichols Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
MEDIA COVERAGE AND INTERVIEWS
2019 Cultural Magazine: AUC Centennial, Nile TV International, February 13, 2019
2018 Desert X, KCET Artbound, Season 9, Episode 2, March 13
2017 Art Dubai Portraits, short film feature, Art Dubai, UAE
Local high school art students visit Desert X sites, Jeremy Chen, ABC News/CBS 2/ KESQ Channel 3, Mar 29, 2017
At SFSU, Looking and Truly Seeing the Middle East Through Art, Roula Seikaly, KQED Arts
March 9, 2017
2010 Sherin Guirguis’ art may wobble…, radio interview by John Rabe, Off Ramp on KPCC, Aired October, 27 2010.
ACADEMIC WRITING
2019 Islamic Art: Past, Present, Future, Edited by Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair (Editor), Essay and Interview, Dr Linda Komaroff, Yale University Press
2018 One I Know: Sherin Guirguis’s One I Call and the Durability of Form, Andy Campbell,
X-TRA Art Journal, Volume 20 Number 2, Winter 2018
2017 Collecting Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Curator’s Collections Series, Dr Linda Komaroff
HONORS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND ART RESIDENCIES
2017 Visiting Artist, Blue Sky Center, New Cuyama, CA
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 exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angles, CA (Suzanne Isken, Executive Director, and Holly Jerger, Curator, of the Craft & Folk Art Museum)
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
2009 National Endowment For the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Grant,
USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
