Ghada Amer Biography
Ghada Amer (1963 - ), born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1963, is an Egyptian artist. Having moved to the United States as a young girl, she finished her education at EPIAR Villa Arson in Nice, France. He participated in the Sydney and Whitney Biennials and received the UNESCO prize at the 1999 Venice Biennale. Additionally, he held the first solo exhibition by an Arab artist at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, which opened in 2000. Currently, the artist resides and works in New York. Among others, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art hold collections of his work. The Egyptian artist's sensual embroideries, which address social issues such as sexuality, female identity, and Islamic culture, are her best-known works. The artist aims to give a representation of the naked female body that is free from the burden of the male gaze (“male gaze”) through sewing, a traditionally feminine activity, in her elaborate fabric work. To illustrate the princess's sexual independence, in her work Snow White Without the Dwarfs, Amer stitches a doe-eyed Snow White with images of naked women touching each other in the background.
