Current exhibitions
The Perfumed Garden - collaborative mixed media print at the "Border Crossings: Contemporary Art from the Zirinsky Collection"
Allen Memorial Art Museum - Oberlin College
10 January 2025 - 1 June 2025
This 2005 collaborative mixed media print, entitled “The Perfumed Garden” created and signed by both Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, is part of the rich Zirinsky collection gifted to the Oberlin College art museum. It integrates Ghada Amer’s signature porn women with Reza Farkhondeh’s nature motifs, thus reclaiming degrading images of women associating them instead with beauty and empowerment.
Category: Paintings
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Upcoming exhibitions
Disobedient Thoughts - Ghada Amer: Solo show
Marianne Boesky gallery, New York City
1 May 2025 - 14 June 2025
Ghada Amer will be exhibiting here and for the first time her most recent colored bronze sculptures (Colored Thoughts) along with a number of large new embroidered canvas paintings.
Category: Sculpture
Copistes (collaboration with the Louvre Museum)
Centre Pompidou, Metz (France)
14 June 2025 - 12 January 2026
Category: Paintings
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Paravent Girls - part of the new artistic walk offered by Hangar Y
Meudon, near Paris, France
29 April 2025 - April 2026
Category: Paintings
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Coming soon
Past exhibitions
A Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt: 1876 - Now
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
17 November 2024 - 17 February 2025
Curated by Akili Tommasino and McClain Groff, this group show will feature Ghada Amer‘s 2021 painted bronze piece “Homage à Tut in Black and White.”
Category: Paintings
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Unravel - The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
14 September 2024 - 5 January 2025
Textiles cover and protect us, engage our senses, trigger our memories, represent our beliefs, hold our stories. We are wrapped in cloth when we’re born and enshrouded in it when we die.
As an artistic medium, textiles can speak to the joys and pains of being human, as well as the larger structures and systems that shape our world.
In this major group exhibition, 45 international, intergenerational artists use textiles to communicate vital ideas about power, resistance and survival. From intimate hand-crafted pieces to monumental sculptural installations, these works offer narratives of violence, imperialism and exclusion alongside stories of resilience, love and hope.
Category: Paintings
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Playing with Mud
Kewenig gallery in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
21 September - 14 December 2024
Category: Paintings
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The Infinite Woman
Villa Carmignac on the Island of Porquerolles, France
until 3 November 2024
Category: Paintings
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Art Basel-Paris Public Programs
Domaine National du Palais-Royal, Paris, France
15 - 26 October 2024
Category: Sculpture
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Lacan, l'exposition - Quand l'art rencontre la psychanalyse
Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
31 déc. 2023 → 27 mai 2024
Plus de 40 ans après la mort du psychanalyste, l’exposition du Centre Pompidou-Metz explorera les relations privilégiées de Lacan avec l’art en mettant en résonance à la fois les oeuvres qu’il a lui-même indexées, les artistes qui lui ont rendu hommage, ainsi que les œuvres modernes et contemporaines qui font écho aux grandes articulations conceptuelles de sa pensée.
Category: Paintings
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Unravel - The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Barbican, London
Tue 13 Feb—Sun 26 May 2024
Textiles cover and protect us, engage our senses, trigger our memories, represent our beliefs, hold our stories. We are wrapped in cloth when we’re born and enshrouded in it when we die.
As an artistic medium, textiles can speak to the joys and pains of being human, as well as the larger structures and systems that shape our world.
In this major group exhibition, 50 international, intergenerational artists use textiles to communicate vital ideas about power, resistance and survival. From intimate hand-crafted pieces to monumental sculptural installations, these works offer narratives of violence, imperialism and exclusion alongside stories of resilience, love and hope.
Category: Paintings
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Esto Nos Salvará
[This Will Save Us]
New outdoor garden installation in Valencia-Spain and show at Ana Seratosa Gallery
25 November 2023 - 5 March 2024
Installed in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia (where Santiago Calatrava’s iconic and futuristic steel buildings stand), Ghada Amer’s newest garden project sits squarely at the crossroads between art and ecology and invites us to engage with social and environmental issues. Each of the 14 large planters that form this garden is a letter and altogether they spell the aphorism ESTO NOS SALVARÁ [This will save us]. They will be filled with edible, medicinal, and aromatic plants, thus supporting welfare and food security among local communities. The vegetables and herbs will not only embellish the landscape, but will also remind visitors of the importance of preserving green spaces especially in urban settings.
Category: Gardens
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QR Codes Revisited—LONDON
Goodman Gallery, London
15 November - 22 December 2023
This exhibit will showcase some of Ghada Amer’s newest body of abstract works, a complete re-examination of an Egyptian textile appliqué tradition long associated with male tentmakers and of the ubiquitous and omnipresent QR codes in today’s world.
Category: Paintings
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QR Codes Revisited—NEW YORK
Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC
26 October - 22 December 2023
In this newest body of work, Amer takes on a traditional Egyptian male textile craft in which richly colored appliqué panels were used to decorate the interiors of tents and pavilions and she transforms them into abstract grids of monochromatic, geometric patterns reminiscent of the ubiquitous form of QR codes.
Category: Paintings
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Paravent Girls
Tina Kim Gallery, NYC
26 October – 9 December 2023
This solo exhibition presents together and for the first time all of Ghada Amer’s monumental bronze sculptures, collectively entitled “Paravent Girls.” This series exemplifies Amer’s long-standing concern regarding the gaze and the power dynamics at work in the act of looking
Category: Sculpture
Love Grave
H3H Biennale of OOsterhout, Netherlands
June 3 - July 16, 2023
Ghada Amer’s garden installation “Love Grave” is on show at the Biennale of OOsterhout, Netherlands from 3 June to 16 July 2023. Installed in the garden of the monasteries of the Heilige Driehoek, Ghada Amer’s garden consists of the four letters (capitalized) spelling the word “love” dug out six feet into the ground. By combining the abstract concept of love with the confronting image of burial and death, Ghada Amer’s garden highlights the connection between love and death, wholeness and emptiness. This is Ghada Amer’s second rendition of this garden, inspired by the horrors of the war in Ukraine.
Category: Gardens
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Ghada Amer—A Retrospective
A Woman's Voice is Revolution
MUCEM, Fort Saint-Jean, Marseille, France
FRAC, Marseille, France
La Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
From Friday 2 December 2022 to Sunday 16 April 2023
This will be Ghada Amer’s first retrospective in France. Presented across three key venues in the port city of Marseille (France) and divided into three major parts, each representing one aspect of the artist’s wide ranging practice: East and West (Fort Saint Jean, MUCEM); Bitches and Witches (FRAC); and Sculpture (La Vieille Charité), the show will also include an outdoor garden installation specifically built for the occasion and set at the terrace level of Fort Saint Jean.
Tickets available on MUCEM Website.
Category: Paintings, Sculpture, Gardens
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Entretien avec l’artiste Ghada Amer
Interview with Ghada Amer
Entretien avec Hélia Paukner et Philippe Dagen, commissaires de la première rétrospective de Ghada Amer en France
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Cactus Painting
Biennale de Nice, Nice, France - Musée d’art naïf
11 June - 19 September 2022
This is Ghada Amer’s FOURTH rendition of her “Cactus Painting.” Showing at the 2022 Nice Biennale, entitled “Les Fleurs du Mâle.”
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Fragile Crossing
Joint exhibit between Goodman Gallery-London and the Boesky Gallery-New York City
June 23 - August 5, 2022
This group exhibit, entitled “Fragile Crossings”, focuses on the fragility of the human condition, and on issues of migration, social justice, and environmental responsibility.
Category: Ceramic
My Body, My Choice
Solo show, Goodman Gallery-London, UK
4 May 2022 – 31 May 2022
After a twenty year absence, Ghada Amer finally returns to London with a brand new solo exhibit at the Goodman Gallery. Featuring a garden installation that spells out in bright red block letters the title phrase of the show “My Body, My Choice,” two drawings in space (sculptures) and five embroidered paintings, Ghada Amer demonstrates once again her skills working in a wide range of artistic media.
Category: Paintings, Sculpture
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My Body, my Choice: Ghada Amer’s May 2022 solo show at the Goodman Gallery, London
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Hoy el 70% de los pobres en el mundo son mujeres [70% of the Poor in the World are Women]
Museu de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, León, Mexico
10 March 2022 – 31 March 2022
As part of the city of León’s celebration of International Women’s Day, Ghada Amer was invited to present this well-known garden installation that she had first created and shown in 2001 and most recently in 2020 at Museo Arte Zapopan (Mexico).
Category: Gardens
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Instituto Cultural de Leon (in spanish only)
Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato
Circulo am (in spanish only)
Portraits of the Women I Know, Part II
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
9 September - 23 October 2021
The Women I Know Part II is Ghada Amer’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. She will present a new series in which she creates intimate, painted and embroidered portraits of the women she knows personally to explore the dynamics of the gaze and female identity that are exchanged between artist, subject, and viewer.
Category: Paintings, Sculpture, Gardens
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A Battle of Signs
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The Women I Know, Part I
Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
21 Nov 2020- 20 Feb 2021
The Women I know, Part I series is the latest development of Amer’s superimposition of figures and text, a visual approach she started to experiment with in 2013.
The show focuses on a new body of works consisting of four moving portraits of female friends in Amer’s signature embroidered painting style, along with a dramatic self-portrait in black and white. The exhibition also gathers a constellation of ceramics in an attempt to survey the artist’s
most recent sculptural works.
Category: Paintings, Sculpture
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Women’s Qualities
Sunnylands Center and Gardens, Coachela Valley
Rancho Mirage, California
January 2021
Desert X
In this third rendition of the “Women’s Qualities” garden, Ghada Amer carves in seven flowerbeds the traits most often associated with women by people polled in the California Coachella Valley: Beautiful, Loving, Nurturing, Resilient, Strong, Caring, Determined.
Each of the planters in the word garden is filled with desert and arid-adapted plants.
Category: Gardens
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Going for a Walk in Ghada Amer’s Garden
Ghada Amer in the Expanded Field
Women, Art, and Politics in the Sensory Garden
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Dark continent
Jardin François 1er, 37000 Tours
June 02 - November 04, 2018
Ghada Amer marks the history of art using alternative methods and tools associated with the work of women. She features archetypes of happiness, love and the vision of women conveyed by the media.
Category: Paintings
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Cactus painting
Jardin François 1er, 37000 Tours
June 02, 2018 - January 06, 2019
Thousands of cacti in various shapes and colours impose a virtuoso pattern on the ground, a manipulated and sharp reference to the great tradition of western abstract painting this hostile garden is a formidable way of tackling the question of female stereotypes.
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Ghada Amer
Brüderstr.10 D-10178 Berlin
April 29 - July 30, 2016
Internationally known for her embroidered canvases, Ghada Amer focused in the last years on creating works out of clay. On thin panels, Amer paints with liquefied colored clay or folds them into abstract, colorful sculptures. The exhibition shows the scope of the Amer’s work by bringing together her ceramics with a selection of her recent canvases, a steel sculpture and a number of works on paper that are the result of her collaboration with Iranian artist Reza Farkhondeh. Questioning relationships of power by expressing archetypes of gender and sexual representations are always at her work’s heart.The exhibition will open in the context of Gallery Weekend Berlin’s VIP Preview on April 29 from 11 am. The official opening will be the evening from 6 to 9 pm.
Category: Paintings
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