Nazli Madkour, was Born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1949, where she lives and works. She holds a masters degree in Political Economy from the American University in Cairo. Since 1982, she had over 35 solo shows and took part in numerous collective exhibitions in Egypt and abroad. She has exhibited in Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, UK, Holland, Greece, Lebanon, Sharjah, Bahrein, Kuwait, Ecuador, Japan, China, USA, and Canada. Her works were acquired by numerous private and public collections in Egypt and abroad.
Her works fall between abstraction and figuration exploring an inner world inspired from Egyptian landscape and often haunted by the women of Egypt. Her paintings are mostly textured with a stress on earth tones, yet more colors and textural illusions have seeped into her recent works. Her sources are predominantly local and her aesthetic language universal.
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