Shady Elnoshokaty
Visual artist & Associate professor of studio practices

The American University in Cairo
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Department of the Arts
The Visual Arts Program

Shady El Noshokaty is a contemporary Egyptian artist born in Damietta City in June 1971, whose projects was featured in many established contemporary art museums and international exhibitions around the world like the Venice Biennial, Hayward Gallery, Mori museum, Kunst museum in Stockholm, Bochum, Arab World Institute in Paris and many others. He was one of the founders of the new curriculum of the Visual Art program at the American University in Cairo in 2013 and directed the program from 2015-2023.

He was an executive curator for Ahmed Basiony’s art project (30 days running in the place) for the Egyptian pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennial. Shady El Noshokaty has also played an important role in the field of art education in Egypt for the last decade. He created his annual media art educationparallel experimental program, as a summer workshop at the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University, for12 years starting in 2000 – 2012. In 2010 he established ASCII – foundation for contemporary art education, as a research center & Interactive New Media Art lab & library aimed to educate and develop young thinkers and researchers’ experiences in new and alternative Media Art practices and creativity in Egypt.

EDUCATION & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1994 Graduated from the faculty of art education, Helwan University in Cairo.
1995 – 2010 worked as a lecturer in painting and drawing dept. At the Faculty of Art Education Helwan University.
2001 Master’s degree with his thesis from the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University. Titled ‘utilizing organic resources in postmodernism art’
2001 – 2002 Fulbright scholars in the school of the art institute of Chicago (SAIC) 2007 Ph.D. degree in philosophy of art education, from the Faculty of Art Education Helwan, with a thesis titled ’The philosophy of media art In relation to contemporary Egyptian identity’
2010 – 2023 Works as a full-time associate professor of studio practice at the department of the arts in the American University in Cairo.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020 – 2023 Director of the Visual Arts Program in the Department of the Arts at the American University In Cairo.
2015 – 2017 Founder of the new visual arts curriculum and director of Visual Art Major, Visual Culture Program in the Department of the Arts at the American University In Cairo.
2012 -2016 Founder and Director of ASCII Foundation for Contemporary Art Education in Cairo.
2019 Advisory board of ‘the International Center for Art, Design and Social Research” (US-based

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 COLONY – Latitude project exhibition at Gypsum contemporary art gallery in Cairo ‘from October 5-November 25’
2010 STAMMER -project in (DARB 1718) for contemporary art in Cairo ‘From March 13 –April 10.
2001 The Tree of My Grand Mother’s House- “The conversation part 1” townhouse gallery, Cairo. Jan 3 – Feb 14.
2009 ” drawings ” At PARROTTA contemporary art gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 Stammer – a lecture in theory, video and drawings, PARROTTA contemporary art, Stuttgart / Germany. Feb 14- March 20
2008 stammer – lecture in theory, live performance in (ACAF) contemporary Alexandria Art Forum
2004 painting & drawings from 1998-2004, townhouse gallery, Cairo. April 8- May 20
2000 Cotton Candy’ – installation, townhouse gallery, Cairo.
1999 The Bed’ townhouse gallery for contemporary art, Cairo
1993 solo exhibition, atelier gallery, Cairo
1993 solo exhibition in the green gallery, Damietta / Egypt

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 “ COLONY- map II” Shown as part of “ The Scene” Group Exhibition at Aisha Fahmy Palace in Giza.
2020 “COLONY- rainbow map” shown at TCC (AUC Tahrir Culture Center), part of the “Glitch” exhibition, curated by Shiva Balaghi.
2018 “COLONY-sounds of the seven tears” shown at the Manyal Palace, as part of “Nothing Vanishes Everything transform” Curated by Art D’ Egypt in Cairo.
2016 “STAMMER – lecture in theory” exhibited at LANGUGalleryRLD OF WORDS, SIGNS, GESTURES An exhibition of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in cooperation with the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.
2015 “My Heart Is a Tiger“Group Exhibition at Art Station Dubuti, Latvia, May 25th.
2015 “Nation 25-Nationless Pavilion“collective project at Venice 56th Biennial.
2014 (The History Now) group exhibition at COLBY museum of arts, January
2014 (The tree of my grandmother) installation project in Fotofest 2014 Biennial, Arab Exhibition in Houston March 18th.
2014 “The Drawer as a Researcher and Thinker “8 series of lecture performances At ASCII foundation “August-Sept 2014 “
2012 (STAMMER -class) in “Adaptation” exhibition, Gallery Zimmermann, Lutz Austria October 2012
2012 (STAMMER – Class) in the history now exhibition in the School of the museum of fine arts, Boston, Jan 18th,
2011 (Accretions II) at museum Sztuki w Lodz, Poland
2010 (Accretions), Skuc gallery, LSloveniajubljana, Slovenia.
2010 Remapping region (unexpected) Kunst Bochum, Germany
2010 (What’s Happening Now) contemporary Egyptian art, in casa Arab Madrid
2010 (l’un i en multiple), Lacapella, Barcelona, Spain.
2010 (TASAWEER) pictorial mapping of Islam and modernity in Martin-Gropius-bauBerlin
2009 (The Body – The Invisible Presents), group Exhibition organized by Mashrabia contemporary art gallery in Cairo.
2008 (Stammer – lecture in theory), live performance in kunstraum kreuzberg/ Bethanien – Berlin
2008 “What is happening now” (contemporary Egyptian video installation exhibition), the palace art gallery – opera house.
2007 “Africa Remix” (contemporary African art) Johannesburg art gallery, South Africa
2007 “This day”, video art from the Middle East, Tate Modern, London
2007 “Occidentalism”, contemporary artists from Egypt – Cairo
2007 The present out of past millennia, Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany
2007 “On paper”, group exhibition in the portrait gallery, downtown Cairo
2007 Elarosa, group exhibition in Ahmed shawky museum’s gallery, Cairo
2006 Africa remix (contemporary African art), Mori art museum – Tokyo, japan
2006 Africa remix (contemporary African art), Moderna museum, Stockholm
2006 Drawing exhibition in the American University gallery in Cairo
2006 Season premier exhibition in the American university gallery in Cairo
2006 Group exhibition in the Egyptian academy in Roma/Italy
2006 Solo exhibition in Elghory palaces gallery opening, old Islamic Cairo area
2005 Africa remix (contemporary African art), center Pompidou, Paris
2005 Africa remix (contemporary African art), Hayward Gallery, London
2005 The 2nd imagining book international exhibition, Alexandria library
2005 The 29th Egyptian national exhibition, the first show of ‚the triptych of Elbanafseg’ flowers video installation.
2004 “Africa remix” (contemporary African art), Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf / Germany
2003 Whispers from the other river, the World Bank gallery-Washington dc
2003 “Take me to the river”, the millennium art center-Washington dc
2002 “Drawings” an exhibition at the American university gallery in Cairo (Falaky Gallery)
2002 The Egyptian contemporary art exhibition – Mexico
2002 Egyptian artist at residence – embassy of the United States, Cairo
2002 “You can touch”, a group exhibition in space gallery, Cairo
2001 The 2nd Elnitaqu contemporary art festival – townhouse gallery Cairo
2002 Elnitaqu Festival II “the tree of my grandmother house’ – video installation project, downtown-Cairo, townhouse gallery.
2002 The squared circle exhibition, Darag Elfan, Beirut / Lebanon
2000 Cairo Elnitaqu contemporary art festival I, downtown-Cairo, townhouse gallery
2000 The 1st exhibition for small artwork, Akhnaten gallery, Zamalek-Cairo
2000 Organizing the 1st experimental art workshop in the faculty of art education, Helwan University, Cairo
2000 For Jerusalem, group exhibition in Elhanager gallery, opera house, Cairo
1999 The 26th Egyptian national exhibition
1999 The Egyptian modern art, Institute de Mond de la Arab – Paris, France
1999 The 48th international Venice, biennale, Egyptian pavilion
1999 The 9th Asian art biennale, Bangladesh
1998 The 4th Cairo ceramics international biennale.
1998 Luxor studios residency’s exhibition
1997 The 8th Egyptian youth salon
1997 The 25th Egyptian national exhibition
1997 The international Cairo Biennale
1997 The Egyptian contemporary art exhibition in Beirut / Lebanon
1997 The Egyptian youth exhibition in kunsthistorischen museums Vienna / Austria
1997 The Egyptian modern art in Bulgaria
1997 Tour in the most important cities related to the art scene in the United States along
with the Egyptian group
1996 The 7th Egyptian youth salon, Cairo
1996 The 3rd Cairo ceramics international biennale
1996 International art workshop, Lahore / Pakistan
1995 Italian / Egyptian mixed media exhibition in the Italian culture center gallery
1995 The 6th – Egyptian youth salon, Cairo
1995 The 24th Egyptian national exhibition
1994 The 5th Egyptian youth salon
1994 (Confegora), international exhibition, Germany (Egyptian section)

VSITING ARTIST/ PROFESSOR

2021 HEAD Genive “Geneva University of Art and Design”
2017 The Faculty of Applied Arts Helwan University “Artist as a researcher”
2016 Visiting professor to Prof. Vlatka Seremet’s senior project “the Politics of Form” at Architecture and Urban Design Program at The German University in Cairo – GUC
2014 Visiting professor At Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Art and Design –Switzerland, April 24th
2011 Visiting Artist/professor at the applied art university in Vienna.
2009 Visiting artist in Kunst Halle, St.Gallen / Switzerland for 2 months
2008 Visiting artist for 2 months in LABORAL (Centro de Arte y creation)-Gijon, Spain.
2001 Acquired the Fulbright commission as a visiting artist in the school of the art institute of Chicago “March – October

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2019 Presentation and discussion with students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Frosinone- Italy. 22/1/2019
2019 Presentation and discussion on Tuesday, as part of “Tuesday’s Critics” at Visionarea gallery in Rome- Italy.
https://vimeo.com/313626126
2019 “One Frankenstein under the skin please” Artist talk, Part of “Reimagined Narratives” Curated by Art D Egypt at El-Moez Street, in old Cairo.
2018 “History-anti-History” artist talk, part of the “ Nothing Vanishes Everything Transforms” Exhibition from 28/10/2018 – 27/11/2018 at the Historical Manyal Palace.
2016 “Emotional Thinking” artist talk and two days of interactive workshops at MASS Alexandria for Contemporary Art.
2016 Presenting ASCII project in the 15th World Social Forum “Porto Alegre- Brazil”
2016 Speaker presenting ASCII project in the first Alternative Art School Fair in New York, from Nov 19 & 20, 2016
http://www.artnews.com/…/pioneer-works-announces-first-atl
2016 Speaker in the world social forum Porto Allegra – Brazil, 21 January Presentation titled “Art as revolutionary social/ political power
2014 Speaker in the world social forum Porto Allegra – Brazil, 17 January Presentation titled “challenges in ground education in Modern Egyptian society”
2014 Speaker at the 20th international symposium on electronic art in Dubai Oct 24th. Presentation titled (ASCII project) as alternative media art education program in Egypt.
2012 Speaker in “what is to be done with art education?” At The Fine Arts and Arts History (FAAH) department at AUB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNqF7MIl40E
2012 Speaker at international biennale conference of the European league of institutes of the arts (www.elia.org) in the University of Applied Art in Vienna.
A presentation titled “Revolutionary education “
https://vimeo.com/66068761
2011 Speaker in “AUC Social Justice Conference” Social Justice in the Contemporary Visual Arts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5cT3_hb_64
2011 Speaker in “Censorship” discussion and presentation at FACT –Liverpool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g7iuvj-1os
2011 Presentation about new media education in Egypt. LABORAL (institute of media art and industrial technology) Gijon, Spain.
2008 Lecture (underground Egyptian cinema) in the Berlinale (Berlin film festival) Berlin, Germany.

CURATING

2022 “ Mapping Time” An archival exhibition for the educational project “ Mapping time & memory” 2012-2022, at AUC Cultural Center of Arts TCC.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QOwgE6Rv0I5h0AMIIwQHk3iHWm-KOEkU?usp
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2022 “Liquid Gaze” Visual Art Senior Project exhibition at the AUC Cultural Center in downtown Cairo TCC.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s6zGOF7yxhWUBVt_8kbaO0JeRvx4G4i/view?usp=sharing
2021 “K for cannibal” Visual Art Senior Project exhibition at the AUC Cultural Center in down-town Caitro TCC.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/125XGOoKbYeVFJGmsTSLSWjPmUO_LfZi6/view?usp=sharing
2019 “Creative Thinking in the Photo Archive ” at South Australian Central Library-Adelaide – Australia.
2019 “TRACES – 1000 objects in context” Educational exhibition at the AUC- Sharjah Gallery.
2017 “-A BODY-“ an exhibition of paintings and drawings by young Egyptian artists at SOMA Art School and Gallery – Zamalek, Cairo
2017 “Please Do It Again” Visual Art Senior Project at the AUC Sharjah Gallery “New campus”
2016 “The Big O” Visual Art Senior Project at the AUC Sharjah Gallery “New campus”.
https://issuu.com/nooribrahim12/docs/tbo_index_pdf_cop
2015 “Tracing Our Dragon Smell” Visual Art Senior Project at the AUC Sharjah Gallery “New campus”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfji3ruHWBI&feature=em-upload_owner&fbclid=IwAR0nAu_F9
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https://issuu.com/nooribrahim12/docs/tods_issue_pdf?fbclid=IwAR1yStziJfkoyWSYvxLOUx8bqrM4
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2014 “30 days running in the place “project by Egyptian artist Ahmed Basiony at MOMA PS1 “Nov 13,”
2014 “30 days running in the place“ project by Egyptian artist Ahmed Basiony at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art “Oct 6th“
2013 (BLINK) an exhibition of a selection of AUC art student in year 2011at the Sharjah gallery March 12th.
2013 (BLINK) an exhibition of a selection of AUC art students in the year 2011 at MEDRAR for contemporary art Dec 7th.
2012 Basiony’s memorial event and exhibitions in 3 different art galleries and contemporary art institutions in Cairo for revolutionary artist / Ahmed Basiony in The AUC Sharjah gallery, DARB 1718, and in ASCII – foundation for contemporary art education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw3HBHc4sPI
2012 (Parallel vision) an exhibition of a selection of AUC art students in the year At DARB 1718 (contemporary art and culture institution.
2012 Basiony project in (Arab express) contemporary Arab arts in Mori Museum – Tokyo, & exURBAN SCREEN” festival at Frankston Arts Center, Australia from 23.6.2012 – 07.07.2012
http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/arab_express/index.html
2011 Basiony’s (30 days running in the place) in FACT, an institution for creative new media, Liverpool, England.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2GRpvn6-OM
2011 Experimental animation exhibition (Tracing Vision) a selection of projects from AUC art students, Sharjah Gallery, AUC new campus.
2011 Executive curator for Egyptian pavilion in Venice biennial (revolutionary Egyptian artist: Ahmed, Basiony’s art project, (30 days running in the place)
http://www.srf.ch/play/tv/-/video/-?id=a0f22bd8-3dc6-49d4-b39f-6af0577612ae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCsJqM26fOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAreedF3JyA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEBtzRmAfLE
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/egypt-displays-an-artful-legacy-at-the-venice-biennale
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/27/egypt.pavilion.venice.protester/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/egyptian-artists-unite-to-preserve-new-freed
oms/2011/04/29/AGXCIQEH_story.html
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=EpoTLZsH108&feature=autoshare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuv0Mb1lGik&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5cT3_hb_64