Education
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MFA
Painting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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BA
Art, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2022
Public Art Commission, METRO Los Angeles, Aviation Station, Crenshaw/LAX Line, Los Angeles, CA
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2019
Here I Have Returned, The Minnesota Museum of America Art, St Paul, MN Bint El Nil, Tahrir Cultural Center, American University, Cairo, Egypt
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2018
Of Thorns and Love, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
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2017
My Place is the Placeless, Artists Lab, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
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2016
El Beit El Kabir, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
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2013
Passages//Toroq, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
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2012
SouthwestNet: Sherin Guirguis & Carrie Merrill, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Duwamah, Frey Norris Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
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2010
Qasr El-Shoaq, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
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2022
Candlewood Arts Festival, Borrego Springs, CA
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2021
Forever Is Now, Art D’Egypte, Cairo, Egypt
Converging Lines: Tracing the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the U.S., Middle East Institute Gallery, Washington DC US Expo Pavilion, Dubai 2020, UAE
Making Time, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
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2020
Desert X Biennial, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
Sanctuary, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
45 at 45, LA Louvre, Los Angeles, CA
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2019
Reimagined Narratives, El Muiz Street Complex, Art D’Egypte, Cairo, Egypt
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2018
New Suns, Paramo Galleria, Guadalajara, Mexico
Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, UAE
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2017
One I Call, Desert X Biennial, Palm Springs, CA
Mashrabeya: 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
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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
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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
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2014
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Color Dialogues, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, UAE
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2013
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Desaturated Rainbow, Field Projects, New York, NY
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2012
Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Cultural 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
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2011
Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
Articles, Interviews and Reviews
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2022
5 works of art to see in San Diego in March, Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, March 3, 2022
San Diego Weekend Arts Events: Desert art, Dia de la Mujer, contemporary dance and more, Julia Dixon Evans, KPBS, March 3, 2022
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2021
Craft Contemporary Offers a Deep Dive into Sculptural Forms, Genie Davis, Art and Cake, June 21, 2021
Artwork installed at future Aviation/Century Station, Heidi Zeller, The Source, April 2, 2021
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2020
Top 10 art installations of 2020, Juliana Neira, Designboom, December 10, 2020
The Best Public Art of 2020, Artsy Editorial, Artsy, December 2, 2020
Focus: Saudi II, Desert Dreaming, Nadine Khalil, Canvas Magazine, April/March 2020
Desert X feels the heat in Saudi Arabia, Kristi Lang, Financial Times, February 28, 2020
Saudi Politics Unsettled an Exhibition, Vivian Yee, The New York Times, February 12, 2020
Land Art in the Desert: A Dramatic Exhibition Challenges Artistic Ideas, Heba Elkayal, Al-Fanar Media, February 18, 2020
Saudi Launches Art Expo in Desert Oasis to Boost Tourism, Maya Margit, The Media Line and The Jerusalem Post, February 18, 2020
From California to Saudi Arabia: Desert X lands in Al Ula, Stephanie D’Arc Taylor, London Evening Standard, February 10, 2020
Arte monumentalen la inmensidad del desierto, 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, Rebecca Anne Proctor, Artnet, February 6, 2020
Shifting sands: An art exhibition, a desert landscape and an insight into Saudi society, Stephanie d’Arc Taylor, The Independent, February 6, 2020
Art and culture collide at this historical hot spot, Elaine Lloyd-Jones, Mojeh, February 6, 2020
Desert X Al Ula: Striking Art Installations Across The Historic Saudi Arabian Valley, Gabrielle Leung, HYPERBEAST, February 5, 2020
Gosh, that’s beautiful! Do you mind who funded it?, Melissa Gronlund, The Times UK, February 5, 2020
This is a living museum interacting with nature, Melissa Gronlund, The National, February 3, 2020
In Pictures: The sculptures of Desert X Al Ula: Spectacular sculpture biennial Desert X Al Ula is bringing contemporary art to the Saudi Arabian desert, Architectural Digest Middle East, February 2, 2020
An Extraordinary Exhibition Launches In Saudi Arabia’s Al Ula Region, Ayesha Sohail Shemir Shaihk, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, February 2, 2020
Desert X Al Ula: The Art Event Enticing Travelers To The Desert Of Saudi Arabia, Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, January 31, 2020
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2019
Reimagined Narratives exhibition in Historic Cairo has a story to tell, Nevine El Aref, Al Ahram Weekly, November 14, 2019
At Art D’Égypte, contemporary artists are reimagining ancient world narratives, Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Wallpaper, November 6, 2019
Interview with artist Sherin Guirguis: On the stories between places, Soha El Sirgany, AMARNA Collection, October 2, 2019
In Egypt, Forgotten Feminist Doria Shafik Brought Back to Life by Sherin Guirguis, Lou Mamlet, Kawa News, February 27, 2019
Manifesting the Unseen, Mahmoud Saber, Qantara, February 25, 2019
The Daughter of the Nile: The TCC’s women empowering exhibition, Daily News Egypt, February 11, 2019
Tahrir Cultural Center opens with a celebration of feminism and fantasy, Anna Seaman, The National, February 5, 2019
An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line, Neal Broverman, Los Angeles Magazine, January 22, 2018
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2018
At the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Three Artists Use Their Work to Call for Change, Lisa Beebe, LA Weekly, October 11, 2018
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2017
Desert X: the arid exhibition that's bringing land art to Coachella, Janelle Zara, The Guardian, 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