Ghada Amer

Ghada Amer is a contemporary artist living and working in New York City. She emigrated from Egypt to the United States at ageand was educated in Paris and Nice. Much of her work deals with issues of gender and sexuality. Her most notable body of work involves highly layered embroidered paintings of womens bodies referencing pornographic imagery. She is represented by the Cheim amp Read Gallery.

Amer was born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in an observant Muslim home. In 1974, at age eleven, she relocated with her family to France. She studied painting at the Villa Arson EPIAR in Nice, where she received her BA in 1986 and MFA in 1989, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique in Paris. In 1995, she relocated to the United States.

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