Amina Yahia

Amina Yahia’s (b. 2000, Cairo, Egypt) work merges ideas of human interaction with folkloric and systematic influences on belief and behaviour. Amina is interested in topics such as socially-influenced behaviour and the ritualistic–almost spiritual–aspect that is a result of its repetitiveness. Her large-scale paintings are rooted in post & neocolonial Egyptian society. The female identity is central to her practice, which she often depicts vis-à-vis portrayals of control systems and reflections of the self. Amina’s figures, often life-sized, have an underlying satirical nature to them. Her narratives are habitually in search of dissecting the uncanny, banal, intimate, violent, and sensual of the body together with the remnants of cultural embeddedness within the bodily movement and function.

Amina received her BA from New York University and has shown her work at Shelter Art Space, Alexandria, 2023 and 2024; Medrar, Cairo, 2023; Millon Auction House, Paris, 2023; Tahrir Cultural Center AUC, Cairo, 2023; New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, 2022; Firetti Contemporary, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, 2022; 421, Abu Dhabi, 2021; Maisan15, Dubai, 2021.

EDUCATION

2022    New York University Abu Dhabi (UAE) 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024    Color Code: RED, Shelter Art Space, Alexandria, (EG)

2023    GEN-Z DIS/CONNECTED, Shelter Art Space, Alexandria, (EG)

2023    Roznama 9, Medrar/Ard Contemporary Art Institution, Cairo, (EG)

2023    Hunna / Elle / هن, Millon Auction House, Paris, (FR)

2023    Pump, Tahrir Cultural Center (AUC), Cairo, (EG)

2022    In Vivo, NYUAD, Abu Dhabi, (UAE)

2022    EYES WIDE SHUT, Firetti Contemporary, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, (UAE)

2021    As We Gaze Upon Her, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, (UAE)

2021    The Disappearing Art Show, Gulf Photo Plus and Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, (UAE)

2021    This lark sips at every pond: women as artist and muse, Maisan15, Dubai, (UAE)

Date of residency: 4.8. – 4.10.2024