Bio

Zapopan, Mexico – Museo de Arte Zapopan – Hoy el 70% de los pobres en el mundo son mujeres – February 1 – May 31, 2020

Berlin, Germany; Palma, Spain – Kewenig – The Women I Know – November 21, 2020 – February 6, 2021

London, UK – Goodman Gallery – In Black and White – December 2 – January 9, 2021

Tours, France – Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré – Dark Continent – June 2 – November 4, 2018

Dallas, Texas – Dallas Contemporary – Ceramics, Knots, Thoughts, Scraps – September 30 – December 17, 2018

New York, NY – Cheim & Read – Ghada Amer – April 5 – May 5, 2018

Cape Town, South Africa – Goodman Gallery – Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh/Love Is a Difficult Blue – January 18 – March 3, 2018

Montréal (QC), Canada – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal – Ghada Amer – February 2 – April 22, 2012

New York, NY – Tina Kim Gallery – The Other I – April 26 – June 2, 2012

Lisbon, Portugal – Galeria Filomena Soares – The Gardens Next Door: Ghada Amer And Reza – September 16 – November 6, 2010

New York, NY – Cheim & Read – Ghada Amer: Color Misbehavior – May 6 – June 19, 2010

Istanbul, Turkey – Dirimart – Ghada Amer: Failing Shahrazad – September 6 – October 24, 2009

New York, NY – Pace Prints Chelsea – Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off Limits – April 16 – June 13, 2003

New York, NY – Tina Kim Gallery – Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings; travelled to New York – March 14 – April 8, 2008

Brooklyn, NY – Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum – Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, organized by Maura Reilly – February 16 – October 19, 2008

Singapore, Singapore – Singapore Tyler Institute – Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: A New Collaboration on Paper – February 23 – March 20, 2008

Milan, Italy – Galleria Francesca Minini – Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: An Indigestible Dessert – May 17 – June 28, 2007

Milan, Italy – Galleria Francesca Minini – Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: La Salon Courbé – May 17 – July 28, 2007

Seol, South Korea – Kukje Gallery – Another Spring – December 15, 2007 – January 13, 2008

Seoul, South Korea – Kukje Gallery – Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings – December 15, 2007 – January 13, 2008

Rome, Italy – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) – Ghada Amer, curated by Danillo Eccher – May 25 – September 30, 2007

s’-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands – Stedelijk Museum s’-Hertogenbosch – Ghada Amer: Paintings and RFGA Drawings, curated by Jos Poodt – July 1 – November 12, 2006

New York, NY – Gagosian Gallery – Ghada Amer: Breathe Into Me – January 21 – February 25, 2006

Wellesley, MA – Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College – The Reign of Terror, curated by Anja Chávez – March 9 – June 19, 2005

Kansas City, MO – H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute – Ghada Amer: Naughty and Nice, curated by R. Smith – June 1 – July 16, 2005

Valencia, Spain – Institut Valencìa d’Art Modern (IVAM) – Ghada Amer, curated by Teresa Millet – September 9 – November 7, 2004

Beverly Hills, CA – Gagosian Gallery – Ghada Amer – September 17 – October 23, 2004

Brescia, Italy – Galleria Massimo Minini – Ghada Amer – May 17 – July 30, 2003

Lisbon, Portugal – Galeria Filomena Soares – Universal Strangers, curated by Rosa Martínez – January 16 – February 22, 2003

Indianapolis, IN – Indianapolis Museum of Art – Forefront 45: Ghada Amer – September 13 – November 30, 2003

Düsseldorf, Germany – Museum Kunst Palast – Reading Between the Threads, curated by Selene Wendt; travelled to Düsseldorf, Germany – February 2 – May 5, 2002

San Francisco, CA – San Francisco Art Institute – Works by Ghada Amer – February 13 – May 20, 2002

Amsterdam, Netherlands – De Appel Foundation – Ghada Amer, curated by Saskia Bos – April 6 – May 19, 2002

Umeâ, Sweden – Bildmuseet, University of Umeâ – Reading Between the Threads, curated by Selene Wendt; travelled to Umeâ, Sweden – May 26 – October 13, 2002

London, UK – Gagosian Gallery – Ghada Amer – May 2 – June 8, 2002

Houston, TX – Contemporary Art Museum – Ghada Amer: Pleasure, curated by Valerie Cassel – July 26 – August 26, 2001

Oslo, Norway – Henrie-Onstad Kunstsenter – Reading Between the Threads, curated by Selene Wendt – November 1 – December 2, 2001

New York, NY – Deitch Projects – Encyclopedia of Pleasure – November 10 – December 22, 2001

Jerusalem, Israel – Anadil Gallery – Ghada Amer Drawings – June 16 – July 30, 2000

New York, NY – Deitch Projects – Intimate Confessions – April 15 – May 27, 2000

Berlin, Germany – Kunst-Werke – Intimate Confessions; travelled to Berlin, Germany – June 10 – July 10, 2000

Tel Aviv, Israel – Tel Aviv Museum of Art – Intimate Confessions; travelled to Tel Aviv, Israel – June 15 – September 2, 2000

Tours, France – Centre Culturel Contemporain – Encyclopedia of Pleasure, curated by A.J. Laferrière – June 24 – October 29, 2000

Santiago, Spain – Contemporary Art Center of Galicia – Breaking the Monument (Images of Resistance) – February 26 – June 13, 2021

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Louvre Abu Dhabi – Abstraction and Calligraphy − Towards a Universal Language – February 17 – June 12, 2021

Palm Springs, CA – Desert X – Desert X 2021; curated by Neville Wakefield and César García-Alvarez – March 12 – May 16, 2021

Detroit, MI – Detroit Institute of Arts – Experience & Expression – January 30 – October 3, 2021

Aspen, CO – Anderson Ranch Arts Center – Sculpturally Distanced – July 6, 2020 – September 6, 2021

Roslyn Harbor, CT – Nassau County Museum of Art – Heroines of Abstract Expressionism and FEM – November 14, 2020 – April 25, 2021

New Britain, CT – New Britain Museum of American Art – Some Day is Now: Women; Art & Social Change – October 1, 2020 – January 24, 2021

Rabat, Morocco – Musée Mohammed VI d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Rabat – un instant avant le monde; Biennale de Rabat 2019, curated by Abdelkader Damani – September 24 – December 18, 2019

Capetown, South Africa – Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) – All Things Being Equal – September 22 – December 31, 2019

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi – Ways of Seeing; curated by Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath – September 3 – November 17, 2018

Melle, France – Biennale de Melle – Le Grand monnayage: 8e biennale international d’art contemporain de Melle; curated by Frédéric Legros and Chloé Hipeau-Diskos – June 30 – September 23, 2018

Nashville, TN – Frist Center – Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century; organized by Mark Scala – June 22 – September 16, 2018

Greensboro, NC & Iowa / Ohio, USA – Bob & Lissa Shalley McDowell Gallery / Travelling to : Faulconer Gallery, Grinnel College, Akron Art Museum – Weatherspoon Art Museum; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Dread & Delight: Fairty Tales in an Anxious World, curated by Dr. Emily Stamey – August 25 – December 9, 2018

Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Museum – Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection – August 31, 2018 – March 31, 2019

Birmingham, AL – Birmingham Museum of Arts – Third Space: Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art – January 28, 2017 – January 6, 2019

Washington, D.C. – Smithsonian National Museum of African Art – Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts – November 4, 2017 – permanent

Albuquerque, NM – Albuquerque Museum – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe; organized by Lisa Small – May 30 – August 9, 2015

Palm Springs, CA – Palm Springs Art Museum – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe; organized by Lisa Small – September 5 – December 13, 2015

Manchester, NH – Currier Museum of Art – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe; organized by Lisa Small – February 5 – May 15, 2014

Gwangju, South Korea – Gwangju Museum of Art – Songs of Loss and Songs of Love: Oum Kulthum and Lee Nan-Young; curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Ferhat – May 19 – July 13, 2014

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Manarat Al Saadiyat – Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection; organized by Susan Davidson- Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation- with Sasha Kalter-Wasseman- Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project- and Maisa Al Qassimi- Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Cultural Authority – November 5, 2014 – January 19, 2015

Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Museum – Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe; organized by Lisa Small – September 10, 2014 – March 1, 2015

Stockholm, Sweden – Modena Museet – Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent; curated by Jean-Hubert – October 14, 2006 – January 14, 2007

Brooklyn, NY / Wellesley, MA – Brooklyn Museum / Wellesley College – Global Feminisms; curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin – September 12 – December 9, 2007

Venice, Italy – African Pavillion – Arsenale; La Biennale di Venezia 52; Check-Lists Luanda Pop; curated by Fernando Alvim and Simon Njami – June 10 – November 21, 2007

San Francisco, CA – Museum of the African Diaspora – Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora; curated by Laurie Ann Farrell – April 6 – June 4, 2006

Tokyo, Japan – Mori Art Museum – Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent; curated by Jean-Hubert – May 27 – August 31, 2006

New York, NY – Museum of Modern Art – Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking; curated by Fereshteh Daftari – February 26 – May 22, 2006

London, UK – British Museum – Word into Art – May 18 – September 3, 2006

Sydney, Australia – 15th Biennale of Sydney – Zones of Contact; curated by Charles Merewether – June 8 – August 27, 2006

Edinburgh, Scotland – City Art Centre – Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora; curated by Laurie Ann Farrell – June 18 – September 11, 2005

Paris, France – Centre Georges Pompidou – Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent; curated by Jean-Hubert – May 25 – August 8, 2005

London, UK – Hayward Gallery – Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent; curated by Jean-Hubert – February 10 – April 17, 2005

Istanbul, Turkey – Istanbul Modern – Centre of Gravity – September 17, 2005 – January 8, 2006

Venice, Italy – 51st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia; Always a Little Further, curated by Rosa Martínez – June 12 – November 6, 2005

Salem, MA – Peabody Essex Museum – Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora; curated by Laurie Ann Farrell – March 27 – June 20, 2004

Düsseldorf, Germany – Museum Kunst Palast – Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent; curated by Jean-Hubert – July 24 – November 11, 2004

Paris, France – Centre Georges Pompidou – Hommage à George Pompidou: Parcours dans les collections du Musée d’Art Moderne; curated by Bruno Racine – April 3 – May 3, 2004

Bloomfield Hills, MI – Cranbrook Academy of Art – Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora; curated by Laurie Ann Farrell – September 11 – November 28, 2004

Washington, D.C. – National Museum of African Art – Inscribing Meanings: African Arts of Communication – May 9 – August 26, 2003

Long Island City, NY – Museum of African Art – Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora; curated by Laurie Ann Farrell – November 13, 2003 – March 1, 2004

Munich, Germany – Museum Villa Stuck – The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994; curated by Okwui Enwezor – February 15 – April 22, 2001

Berlin, Germany – Martin-Gropius-Bau – The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1995; curated by Okwui Enwezor – May 18 – July 29, 2001

Chicago, IL – Museum of Contemporary Art – The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1996; curated by Okwui Enwezor – September 8 – December 30, 2001

New York, NY – Whitney Museum of American Art – Whitney Biennial; curated by Maxwell Lincoln Andersen, Michael G. Aupig- Valerie Cassel- Hugh M. Davies- Jane Farver- Andrea Miller-Keller- and Lawrence R. Rinder – March 21 – June, 2000

Limerick, Ireland – Limerick City Gallery of Art – Friends and Neighbours: EV+A 2000; curated by Rosa Martínez – March 10 – June 4, 2000

Long Island City, NY – MoMA PS1 – Greater New York – February 27 – May 1, 2000

Lyon, France – La Biennale de Lyon – 5th Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon: Partage d’exotismes (Sharing of Exoticisms); curated by Jean-Hubert Marin, Thierry Prat and Thierry Raspail – June 27 – September 24, 2000

Kwangju, South Korea – Kwanju Biennial – Man and Space; curated by René Block – March 29 – June 7, 2000

Venice, Italy – Venice Biennale – APERTO Over All; curated by Harald Szeeman – June 13 – November 7, 1999

Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alps, France – Institut D’Art Contemporain – L’Envers du décor; dimensions décoratives dans l’art du XXème siècle – May 21 – October 31, 1999

Santa Fe, New Mexico – Third International Biennial – SITE Santa Fe; Looking for a Place; curated by Rosa Martínez – July 1 – December 12, 1999

Villeneuve d’Ascq, France – Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole – L’Envers du décor; dimensions décoratives dans l’art du XXème siècle – October 17, 1998 – February 21, 1999

Kassel, Germany – Museum Fridericaum – Echolot; curated by René Block – March 22 – June 7, 1998

London, UK – Serpentine Gallery – Loose Threads; curated by Lisa Corrin – August 21 – September 20, 1998

Johannesburg, South Africa – 2nd Johannesburg Biennale – Alternating Currents; curated by Okwui Enwezor and Octavio Zaya – October 12 – December 12, 1997

Grenoble, France – Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble – Vraiment feminisme et art; curated by Laura Cottingham – April 6 – May 25, 1997

Ljubljana, Slovenia – Moderna Galerija – The Sense of Order; curated by Zdenka Badovinac – May 9 – June 23, 1996

Cairo, Egypt – Espace Karim Francis – Miniatures – May 28 – June 18, 1996

Graz, Austria – Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum – Pittura/Immedia; curated by Peter Weibel – March 11 – April 18, 1995

Istanbul, Turkey – – Orient/ation:The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World.4th International Istanbul Biennial ( curated by René Block) – November 10 – December 10, 1995

Frankfurt am Main, Germany – Galerie Martina Detterer – The Mutated Painting – February 25 – May 5, 1995

Dôle France – Musée des Beaux-Arts – Bifurcations – April 26 – March 10, 1994

Albi, France – Cimaise et Portique – Bifurcations – January 26 – March 10, 1994

Meymac, France – Abbaye Saint André Centre d’Art Contemporain – Bifurcations – February 20 – April 17, 1994

Larson, Vanessa. “The National Museum of African Art has doubled its holdings of art by women. This show puts their work in the spotlight,” The Washington Post (July 18, 2019)

“’They Were Exploring a New World’: Arnold Lehman on His Exhibition of Postwar American Women Artists at Phillips,” ArtNews (July 25, 2019) [online]

Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “Ghada Amer at Cheim & Read,” Artforum (April 2018) [online]

Langmuir, Molly, “Seven Female Artists Weigh in On Men Painting Women, and Women Doing it for Themselves,” New York Magazine (April 16, 2018) [online]

Rodney, Seph. “How Ghada Amer Uses Seduction to Expose Sexism,” Hyperallergic (May 10, 2018) [online]

Vine, Richard, “Reviews: Ghada Amer at Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré” (September 1, 2018)

Laura van Straaten, “Earth, Love, Fire,” Harpers Bazaar Arabia (Winter 2016) [online]

Proctor, Rebecca, “Evocative Gaze,” Harpers Bazaar Arabia (Winter 2016) [online]

Johnson, Ken, “’The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men’,” The New York Times (July 29, 2016) [online]

Laster, Paul “Ghada Amer, ‘Rainbow Girls,’” Time Out New York (April 17 – 23, 2014) [online]

OCAD University, “Nomadic Residents: Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh,” (March 2014) [online]

Pincus-Witten, Robert, “Ghada Amer/Cheim & Read,” Artforum (Summer 2014) [online]

Artsy Editors, “In the Studio with Ghada Amer: Source Materials and Preparatory Drawings,” Artsy (August 2, 2013) [online]

Artsy Collecting, “Why Collect a Ghada Amer?,” Artsy.net (August 5, 2013) [online]

Wolff, Rachel, “Ghada Amer/Cheim & Read,” Artnews (Summer 2010) [online]

Farhat, Maymanah, “The Creative Rebellion of Ghada Amer,” Canvas Magazine (January 2010)

Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia, “Ghada Amer: Defusing the power of erotic images,” New York Times (March 12, 2007) [online]

Bodycomb, Michael, “Needling More Than the Feminist Consciousness,” New York Times (December 28, 2007) [online]

Frankel, David, “Ghada Amer at Deitch Projects,” Artforum (February 2002) [online]

“9 Painters: An On the Page Installation by Ghada Amer,” Modern Painters (Summer 2002)

Renton, Andrew, “Beyond Tradition,” This is London (May 7, 2002)

Littman, Brett. Ghada Amer: Love is a Difficult Blue. Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery. 2018.

Ceramics. Berlin: Distanz Verlag GmbH. 2018.

Rieffel, Véronique. Le Corps Découvert. Paris: Institut du Monde Arabe. 2012.

Schwartz, Jamie and Lewis, Jacob. The Other I. Tina Kim Gallery. New York: Tina Kim Gallery. 2012.

St. Gelais, Therese. Ghada Amer, Montréal: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. 2012.

Antle, Martine. The Gardens Next Door. Lisbon: Galeria Filomena Soares. 2010.

In Context: A Series of Exhibitions and Interventions Engaging with the City of Johannesburg: 23 May – 17 July 2010. Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery. 2010.

Reilly, Maura. Ghada Amer. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co. 2010.

Another Spring. Kukje Gallery: New York. 2007.

Celant, Germano; Eccher, Danilo; Macri, Teresa; and Janus, Elizabeth. Ghada Amer. Rome: MACRO. 2007.

Martínez, Rosa; Lundström, Jan-Erik; and Millet, Teresa. Ghada Amer. Valencia, Spain: Institut d’Art Modern. 2004.

Dan, Cameron, and Deitch, Jefferey. Monument to Now. Athens: Deste Foundation. 2004.

Farrell, Laurie Ann. Ghada Amer. Seoul: Kukje Gallery. 2004.

Homes, A.M., Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery. 2004.

Martinez, Rosa. Ghada Amer. Lisbon: Galeria Filomena Soares. 2003.

Stirrat, Betsy, and Johnson, Catherine. Feminine Persuasion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003.

Amer, Sahar, and Oguibe, Olu. Ghada Amer. Amsterdam: De Appel. 2003.

Freiman, Lisa D. Ghada Amer. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art. 2003.

Haglund, Elisabet, and Maleström, Tamara. Sites of Recurrence: A Workshop in Contemporary Art. Chennai, India: Madras Craft Foundation. 2003.

Renton, Andrew. Ghada Amer. New York: Gagosian Gallery. 2002.

Kim, Clara. Ghada Amer: Délier les Langues. Geneva: Galerie Guy Bärtschi. 2002.

Grosenick, Uta. Art Now. Cologne: Taschen. 2002.

Cassel, Valerie. Ghada Amer: Pleasure [Perspectives 128]. Houston: Contemporary Art Museum. 2001.

Wendt, Selene. Ghada Amer: Reading Between the Threads. Høvikodden: Henrie Onstad Kunstsenter. 2001.

Moss, Karen. Ghada Amer. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute. 2001.