Wael Darweish

Born: 1975

Hometown: Cairo

Based in: Egypt

WAEL DARWEISH Biography

Wael Darwish was born in Cairo in 1975 and graduated from the Faculty of Art Education in 1998. He is a professor of drawing and painting in the same faculty from graduation to the current date. He holds a doctorate degree in Contemporary Painting Philosophy as well as a Master’s degree in painting and drawing. Darwish has a long career in visual arts spanning a period of more than twenty-five years. Darwish is a multidisciplinary artist who uses painting, video and installation art to articulate his observations of political and socioeconomic change and their effect on the contemporary man.
His artistic journey is based locally and expands to include the Middle East region and worldwide. The artist has also held twenty-one solo exhibitions so far and also has a track record of achievements at all professional levels at the level of international exhibitions. He has participated with his artworks in more than one hundred international exhibitions. The artist has also received many awards at the local and international levels. His artworks constitute a realistic study of the reaction of contemporary society to all its problems and their effects on contemporary humanity. His artistic style relies on trends from surrealism, symbolism and colour expressionism, and the human element constitutes the axis for building artistic work on the basis that human is the centre of the build.

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Question Icon What inspires you?

My artwork is inspired by films in general, theater, social media, and world news

Question Icon Describe your creative process.

The creative process starts from the main catalyst for the process of building ideas, which constitutes the real beginning of the artistic work, which can live a lot. Then comes the philosophical element of the art used in building the work of art, which lives in a specific atmosphere of color, lines and visual chromatic entanglements that form the environment in which the forms live. It ended with the stage of mixing the artistic elements in the artwork and the color environment, which is based on the same idea and drama of the artwork

Question Icon What are 3 words that best describe your work?

Truth, dream, and self

Question Icon Who are some artists that have influenced your work?

Willem de Kooning-Archil Gorky, Franz Klein, Clyfford Still, and Hans Hoffmann

Question Icon What is the most important tool when creating your work?

brushes part of my body

Question Icon What is the best piece of advice you have been given?

My father advised me, he was also an artist (you are the first audience for your artwork, if you like it, people like it)

Question Icon Where do you go for inspiration?

I watch more than I speak. I always sit in the cafe or any place where I watch people's sarcasm, expressions and ideas that they can't express. Everything I watch is the source of inspiration for my thoughts.

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Credentials

Education

PhD, Full Professor ,Drawing and painting department

Egypt, 2019

Assistant Professor, Department of Painting and drawing

Egypt, 2014

PhD in Art Education, specializing in drawing and painting

Egypt, 2008

Master's degree in Art Education, specializing in drawing and painting

Egypt, 2003

Bachelor's degree, Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, Cairo

Egypt, 1998

Exhibitions

the scene 1- sinter of arts- Cairo-EGYPT.

Egypt, 2022

Cairo art fairVol 2 , Tam art galleries , new Cairo , Egypt.

Egypt, 2022

Egypt art fair,AZAD ART GALLERYS,CAIRO

Egypt, 2021

Cairo art fair , Tam art galleries , cairo , Egypt.

Egypt, 2021

THE INTERCONTINENTAL BIENNIAL OF THE INDIGENOUS ART

United States of America, 2021

positive space - Tam art galleries , Cairo , Egypt.

Egypt, 2021

National Exhibition - palace of Arts - Egyptian Opera House cairo.

Egypt, 2020

ARS GRATIA ARTIS EXHIBITION- POST ART- THE INTERNATIONAL MESSAGE- Fundacion Paurides

Spain, 2020

Luxor international painting symposium 13, luxor,

Egypt, 2020

ART WITHOUT BORDERS- codex-art- Požarevac ,

Serbia, 2020

Cairo art fair , Tam art galleries , cairo

Egypt, 2019

"Don't bite me!", Naples international art symposium-Academy of Fine Arts – Naples

Italy, 2019

(Mirage of Hope) exhibition-The International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Tunisia, 2019

MILLER ART MUSEUM , WISCONSIN, STURGEAN BAY

United States of America, 2019

(Like You, Like Me) in Detroit Mi, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art-Michigan

United States of America, 2019

"Cairo Reflection"- Al Hanager Arts Center-Cairo Opera House

Egypt, 2019

first international Biennale and art symposium in Veliko gradista Požarevac,

Serbia, 2018

International Art Festival (ode to Life) - prestigious gallery venue of Royal Palace Petrović – Podgorica

Montenegro, 2018

N’NAMDI CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART-MICHIGAN

United States of America, 2018

III International Art Colony „Artefact“,Veliko Gradište,

Serbia, 2018

XII International Art Colony "Love and understanding with a message of peace", Požarevac

Serbia, 2018

A Guide for Our Times- CARAVAN's -Sotheby's – London

United Kingdom, 2018

THE 16 FINE ARTES FESTIVAL-MOUNSTIR

Tunisia, 2018

the 2th INTERNATUNAL ART SEMPOSUM-KATARA

Qatar, 2018

the 12th International art colony “My balkan” , Požarevac

Serbia, 2017

THE 1ST AILA ART SEMPOSUM

Jordan, 2016

INTERNATUNAL ART SEMPOSUM – NEW DELHY

India, 2016

CAIRO AMMAN BANK INTERNATUNAL ART SEMPOSUM 2- AMMAN

Jordan, 2015

GALLERIES NIGHT Artsawa Gallery, Dubai

United Arab Emirates, 2015

1st narrative movements – the jehan hotel - New Delhi.

India, 2015

CARAVAN 3, Cairo Opera House, Egypt, National Cathedral in Washington D.C, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine

United States of America, 2014

Art 14 LONDON, BOOTH E10, atolympia, Kensington, London.

United Kingdom, 2014

Abu Dhabi Art Fair, art sawa gallery- Dubai

United Arab Emirates, 2013

Christie’s Dubai Artsawa Gallery, Dubai

United Arab Emirates, 2013

SYRI -ARTS EXHIBITION & AUCTION-Beirut Exhibition Center (Downtown Beirut)-

Lebanon, 2013

the 55th Venice biennale – the Maldivian Pavilion – Venice

Italy, 2013

Art 13 LONDON,BOOTH E10,atolympia,kinsington

United Kingdom, 2013

Abu Dhabi Art Fair - art sawa gallery- Dubai-

United Arab Emirates, 2012

Christie’s auction – (by art sawa gallery)

United Arab Emirates, 2012

10th International Fine Arts Colony-Monošter / Szentgotthárd

Hungary, 2011

MENASART ART FAIR , Beirut International Exhibition-Leisure Center (Biel)

Lebanon, 2011

ÇANKIRI KARATEKİN UNIVERSITY,FACULTY OF FINE ARTS – SUMMER ACADEMY-Ankara

Turkey, 2011

Abu Dhabi Art Fair – art sawa gallery

United Arab Emirates, 2011

Commissaries of the Egyptian Section – III Biennale of Art Ecuador

Ecuador, 2010

Abu Dhabi Art Fair – art sawa gallery-

United Arab Emirates, 2010

Arab Cultural week – Johannesburg – Eritrea

South Africa, 2010

15th Lind Art INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ARTISTS FINE ARTS COLONY, Gallery-Museum Lendava

Slovenia, 2010

Black and white-El Gezera Art Senter, Cairo

Egypt, 2010

Land Of The Hyper real- Memorial Jose, Revolution Square, Havana

Cuba, 2010

Abu Dhabi Art Fair – art sawa gallery

United Arab Emirates, 2009

Bonjour la France Art Fair – Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates, 2009

DARKLIGHT FILM FESTIVAL – DUBLIN

Ireland, 2009

DUBLIN ELECTRONIC ARTS FESTIVAL: D.E.A.F

Ireland, 2009

UNDERCURRENT contemporary Egyptian art- art sawa gallery- Dubai

United Arab Emirates, 2009

AGANDA EXHIPATION, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,

Egypt, 2009

AL MARKAYAH ART GALLERY- Doha

Qatar, 2009

Cairo international Biennial 11- 2008 – Cairo Opera House

Egypt, 2009

Creative Expressions – art sawa gallery- Dubai

Egypt, 2008

Art Paris- Abu Dhabi, Emirates Palace- Dubai

United Arab Emirates, 2008

Art sawa gallery opening- Dubai

United Arab Emirates, 2008

ÖREBRO INTERNATIONAL VIDEOART FESTIVAL

Sweden, 2008

Secrets project –Dara el finon-amman

Jordan, 2008

Dubai Art Fair -United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates, 2008

From Athens to Marseille to Cairo, Marseille

France, 2008

what is happening today, Cairo Opera House

Egypt, 2007

The days of the Egyptian culture in India, New Delhi

India, 2007

The Present out of the Past Millennia, Kunstmuseum Bonn

Germany, 2007

Contemporary Egyptian paintings – Egyptian Academy in Rome

Italy, 2006

Imagining the Book I, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

Egypt, 2006

Imagining the Book II, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria

Egypt, 2006

Art and Soul, Cairo Opera House Gallery

Egypt, 2005

6th International Ceramics Biennial, Cairo Opera House &Palace of arts Cairo

Egypt, 2002

Arab Visual Artists’ Exhibition, Taha Hussein Museum, Cairo

Egypt, 2002

Arab Visual Artists’ Exhibition, Taha Hussein Museum

Egypt, 2001

5th International Ceramics Biennial, Cairo Opera House & Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo

Egypt, 2001

Annual Salons of Miniatures, Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo

Egypt, 1998