EXHIBITIONS
SOLO SHOWS
2014
Wetiko Cowboys & Indigenes Rose Issa Projects London
2012
“Cairo Year One” Mosaic Rooms in association with Rose Issa Projects, London “Anachrony” Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo
2011
“Anachrony” IF gallery paris
2010
“Metanoia” Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2009
“Metanoia”, Parco Horcynus Orca, Messina, Italy “Escaton”, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2007
“Palimpsest”, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo “Retrospective”, The Sultan Gallery, Kuwait
2006
“Ashoura”, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo Artmenparis, Paris
2005
“Apotheosis”, Karim Francis Gallery, Cairo
2004
“Metamorphosis”, Espace SD, Beirut
2001
“Portraits” Hanager Art Center, Cairo “Mitigation”, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
“Cherchez L’erreur” Institute Des Cultures d’Islam Paris “Crisis In History” Tolhuistuin cultural center Amsterdam “Intimate Transgressions” Whitebox New York
2014
“Power! Photos! Freedom!” CAN, Luxembourg “View from Inside”, presented by Houston Center for Photography (HCP) “Open Your Eyes" FotoFest International at Houston Center for Photography The Infinity The Singapore International Photography Festival The King's Peace | Realism and War Edinburgh Art Festival 2014 An Ocean of Possibilities Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2014 Arab Contemporary architecture & Identity Louisiana museum of Modern art Denmark
2013
"She who tells a story" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston “'Power! Photos! Freedom!'” FotoMuseum, Antwerp
2013
“Light From the Middle East”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2012
“Re-Orientations II”, Rose Issa Projects, London “PhotoMed 2012”, Sanary sur Mer, France “Anachrony”, Syra Arts at the Washington Design Center, Washington DC “The Changing Room: Arab Reflections of Praxis and Times”, The Underground Gallery, London and Turin, Italy “Egyptian Art Today”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany “Traits d’Union”, The Venue, Lebanon (touring exhibition: France, Jordan, Lebanon and Yemen) “Metanoia”, Video Oddo Bank, Paris and Nahatat Contemporary Art, Cairo “Shots”, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris “Proche”, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris “She Sees Her Self”, Gallerie Satore, Paris “The Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition”, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires “Paradox-on”, European Union House of Delegation, Cairo She Views Herself Salon Paul Ricard Paris collective Metanoia I Am Not There CIC, collective
“Suwar: Pictorial Representations from the Arab world”, Rose Issa Projects, London
“Le Printemps de Septembre: History is Mine”, Toulouse, France
2011
“Uncanny: Surreal Photography”, Photoplace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont “Images from the Egyptian Revolution”, The French Institute, Cairo “Metanoia: Freedom To Create”, Cape Town “Escaton”, Mois de L’image, Dieppe, France “The Changing Room”, Galleria Metro Quadro, Rivoli,Turin, Italy “Rencontres de Bamako Biennale”, Mali and Traits d’Union, Paris “L’Art Contemporain Arabe”, Villa Emerie, Paris “Dress Code”, Art Sawa Gallery, Dubai “Renditions” Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE Arab Changing Room, Torino, Italy, Un an Deja Imane Fares Gallery, Paris
2010
“Metamorphosis, Land of the Hyperreal”, Havana, Cuba Photo Biennale Thessaloniki, Greece “Ashoura: Act of Faith”, Abdijdmuseum Ten Duinen, Koksijde, Belgium
2009
“Il Corpus Homanus”, Al Masar Gallery, Cairo “Metamorphosis X”, Biennial Cuenca, Ecuador Photoquai, Museum de Quai Branly, Paris “Arab World Views”, Casa Arabe, Madrid “The Blow Out”, The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai
2008
Athens Photo Festival Greece “Places and Manners of Worship”, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki
2007
“Act of Faith”, Der aa-kerk, Groningen, The Netherlands
2003
“Cairo Modern Art “,Fortis Circus Theater, Netherlands
2002
Photo Cairo Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
AWARDS
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2012 Honourable mention, Freedom to Create 2011, First prize – commended The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 2011 First prize Jacob Riis Award 2010 Runner-up The Invisible World Portfolio Selection 2010 Finalist – honourable mention
PUBLICATIONS
"Cairo, Texas - a Photographer's diary" edited by katia haddian (Rose Issa Publications 2014) “ An Ocean Of Possibilities” (Noorderlicht Publishing 2014) View from the inside: contemporary Arab Phtography Video and Mixed media Art Fotofest houton Texas (Schilt Publishing 2014) Arab Contemporary architecture & Identity edited by Michael Juul Holm and Mette Marie Kallehauge (Louisiana museum of Modern art Denmark and contributers 2014) printed by Rosendahls She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, by Kristen Gresh. Foreword by Michket Krifa (MFA Publications, 2014) Haut Africa People Photography And Fashion Lannoo Publishers 2014 Cairo Year One, edited by Rose Issa (Al Qattan Foundation & Rose Issa Projects, 2012) Arab Photography Now, edited by Rose Issa and Michket Krifa (Kehrer, 2011) Paris And Contemporary Arab Art Traits D’union 2011 The Changing Room: Arab Refelections On Praxis And Times (Finding Projects Association 2011) Exposures, Photography and Egypt, by Maria Golia (Reaktion Books, 2010) Egitto, by Martina Corgnati (Mesogea, 2009) Modern Egyptian Art, by Lilian Karnouk (AUC, 2005) Cairo Modern Art in Holland edited by Wolter Lommerde Fortis Circustheater Scheveningen 2001
SELECTED JOURNALS & NEWSPAPERS (print and online)
Art Radar, 27 March 2015 “Let’s play”: Egyptian artist Nermine Hammam on the credibility of images Lisa Pollman The Metropolist Recommends, 23 Sep 2014: “Nermine Hammam on wétiko and myth.” By Rachel Holmes Huffington Post, USA, 17 December 2013: “Arab And Iranian Female Photographers Collide For 'She Who Tells a Story' at MFA Boston” by Priscilla Frank Huffington Post, USA, 11 December 2013: “She Who Tells a Story” by Lori Zimmer Huffington Post, Maghreb, 18 October 2013: “Des photomontages pour démonter le mythe The Daily Mail, 28 August 2013: Life behind the veil: Stunning photographs seek to challenge Western misconceptions of what life is like for Middle Eastern women. By Steve Nolan Newsweek 17th December 2012 Images Of Arabia Playing With The Representaions Of The Middle East By Jason Goodwin Slate.com, 12 September 2013: “A New Angle on the Soldiers of Tahrir Square” by David Rosenberg Gulf News, 27 June 2013: “You See What You Want to See” by Richard Holledge CNN, 10 August 2012: “Images of Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolutionary Art” by Tim Hume Rolling Stone Magazine, 3 May 2012: “Nermine Hammam’s Life Through A Lens” by Adam Grundey Daily News Egypt, 11 April 2012: “Nermine Hammam’s Voluble Cry of Freedom” by Mariam Hamdy Alakhbar English Egypt 16 August, 2012 Nermine Hammam: Cairo in Layers by Mohamed Mesrati The Times, UK, 5 April 2014: “From Bosnia to Tahrir Square, how artists depict the world’s conflicts” The New Statesman, UK, 7 March 2013: “Light From the Middle East at the V&A: Middle Eastern The Times, UK, 13 November 2012: “Light from the Middle East” by Nancy Durrant Monocle, July/August 2012: “A Different View” by Alex de Cramer City A.M. 27th julu 2012 No Idyll This: Cairo Year one by Zoe Strimple Libération, France, 30 May 2012: “Nermine Hammam dans le grand bain”, by Gilles Renault Egypt Independent, Catharsis in muted tones: Nermine Hammam's 'Anachrony' 1 April 2012 by Ellen Brooks Conde Nast Traveller 7th November 2011Egypt revolution by Egypt’s artists by Susan Hack
de l'armée en Egypte” by Rebecca Chaouch
photographic practice in focus” by Surabhi Khanna
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert Museum, London Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam Parco Horcynus Orca, Messina, Italy
FILMS
Mirrors to Windows: The Artist as Woman: Susan Steinberg 2015