Sawsan Amer

Sawsan Amer is an Egyptian painter and art educator, considered as a pioneer Egyptian woman artist.[1] She has been Director of the Art Research Unit at the Academy of the Arts and a professor on the faculty of Art Education at the College of Art Education.

Sawsan Amer
Born
Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
OccupationArtist, painter

Education and career

She graduated from the College of Art Education, and has been Director of the Art Research Unit at the Academy of the Arts and a professor on the faculty of Art Education. She has authored a book and numerous articles on folk art,[2] which has also inspired her artist work.[3] She was noted for her paintings on glass and her collages,[4] combining traditional iconography with personal imagery.[5] Her work, inspired by traditional Arabic architecture,[6] is noted for its rich color sense.[7]

Awards
  • Cairo Salon, 1972[8]
  • Research Award from the Egyptian Committee on Public Art, 1991 [8]

Exhibitions

References
  1. El saadi, Hoda (2007). Women Pioneers of Egyptian Art: Words and Images. Women and Memory forum.
  2. "The World's Women On-Line!". wwol.is.asu.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. Karnouk, Lilian (2005). Modern Egyptian art, 1910-2003. The American University in Cairo Press. p. 239.
  4. Mullin Burnham, Anne (1994). "Reflections in Women's Eyes". Saudi Aramco World.
  5. The contemporary art of Arab women
  6. Aziza, Mohamed (1978). L'Image et l'Islam: l'image dans la société arabe contemporaine (in French). Albin Michel. p. 95.
  7. Nashashibi, Salwa Mikdadi (1994). Forces of change: artists of the Arab world. International Council for Women in the Arts. p. 94.
  8. Nawar, Ahmed (January 2005). "Sawsan Amer". Al Hayat (in Arabic).
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