Egyptian Artist

Egypt’s art history stretches back thousands of years, but this section focuses on modern and contemporary painters, sculptors, and photographers working in and from Egypt today. Many draw on the country’s ancient visual language, symbols, forms, and stories that go back to the pharaohs, while others work in styles shaped by Cairo’s busy streets, the Nile, or broader Middle Eastern and international art movements. Egypt has also long been a meeting point between African, Arab, and Mediterranean culture, and that mix often comes through in the work featured here. Explore this section to see how Egyptian artists carry that history forward.

Mohamed Elmoslemany | Egyptian Artist

Mohamed Elmoslemany is an Egyptian painter and professor whose portraits capture the character and history written into Egyptian faces. Working across oil, watercolor, and mixed media, he blends echoes of ancient Egyptian art with everyday rural life.
Walid Ebeid | Egyptian Artist

Walid Ebeid is an Egyptian painter who began drawing at six years old and later trained in realistic expressionism, earning his master’s degree in oil painting. His work has shown across Egypt since 1992, often carrying a mystic undertone beneath its realistic surface.
Yasser Rostom | Egyptian Artist

Yasser Rostom is an Egyptian surrealist artist born in 1971, often called the Egyptian Dalí for his intricate pen and ink work blending ancient and modern imagery. His series Doves and Crows reflects on the Arab Spring, and he has held more than 30 solo exhibitions in Cairo along with shows in Paris, London, and…
Ali Hassaan | Egyptian Artist

Ali Hassaan is an Egyptian painter and professor born in 1975, who holds a PhD in painting from Helwan University in Cairo and teaches at Luxor University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. Known for mixed media portraits of people from Upper Egypt and landscapes of the desert and the Red Sea coast, he has shown his…
Asmaa M. Khoury | Egyptian Artist

Asmaa M. Khoury is an Egyptian artist born in Cairo in 1988, who earned her degree with honors from the Faculty of Applied Arts in 2011 and later served as a jury member for the prestigious Cairo Salon. She has held solo exhibitions across Egypt and participated in group shows at institutions including the Bibliotheca…
Hany Gamal | Egyptian Artist

Hany Gamal is an Egyptian sculptor born in Minya Governorate in 1986 who studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Minia University, graduating in 2008. He gained wide attention in 2018 after sculpting a statue of footballer Mohamed Salah in just three days, and has since gone on to sculpt Fairouz, Ahmed Zaki, Magdy…
Waleed Yassin | Egyptian Artist

Waleed Yassin is an Egyptian realist painter whose portraits and cultural scenes have drawn attention from art lovers across the Middle East and the West since around 2011. His work favors visible brushwork and softened color over photographic precision, giving his subjects a warm, honest presence rather than a polished, staged look. Collectors are drawn…
Ahmed Elmasry | Egyptian Artist

Ahmed Elmasry is an Egyptian photographer known for bold, direct images that move between portraits and street photography. His work captures the rhythm of Cairo, its markets, alleys and sudden gestures, alongside quieter landscape scenes shaped by warm tones and open space. Together, his photographs form a visual diary of modern Egyptian daily life.
Ervand Demerdjian | Egyptian Artist

Ervand Demirdjian was an Armenian Egyptian painter born in Constantinople in 1870 who trained in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens before fleeing persecution and settling in Cairo in 1896. There he became a founding member of the Circle of Artists, Egypt’s first modern art group, and spent his career painting the streets, markets and daily…
Samir Fouad | Egyptian Artist

Samir Fouad is an Egyptian watercolor and oil painter, born in Heliopolis, Cairo, in 1944, who trained as a communication engineer before finally retiring in 2001 to paint full time. A trip to London in 1964 introduced him to British watercolorists like Turner, and after years balancing art with a career in technology, he became…
Ibrahim Najjar | Egyptian Artist

Ibrahim Najjar is an Egyptian architect and photographer who brings an architect’s eye for composition and structure to his wildlife and portrait photography. His travels across Africa have produced striking images of animals in their natural habitats alongside intimate portraits of the people he meets along the way. His photographs have been shown in exhibitions…
Fadi Koudsi | Egyptian Artist

Fadi Koudsi is an Egyptian freelance photographer and photography instructor who began shooting in 2010 and has since worked across architecture, portraiture, products and studio lighting. Influenced by photographers like Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz, he is especially known for black and white images built on a strong sense of light, shadow and mood. His…