Ghada Amer,
b. Cairo, 1963

Amer studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Nice, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris. She was a 1999 artist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a recipient of the UNESCO fellowship, Venice Biennale. In 2004, she served on the master jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Amer is best known for her textile installations, sculptures and paintings which she intricately embroiders with texts or images that speak to aspects women's sexuality, desire and happiness--often in ways that subtly expose the contradictions inherent in religious and feminist forms of extremism. The very act of stitching cloth reflects the artistsí play with popular understandings about feminine work, gender stereotypes and empowerment. Amer's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the United States and the Middle East. She currently lives and works in New York.

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Encyclopedia of Pleasure

2001
Canvas, gold thread on a cardboard frame

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