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Born 1982, Cairo, Egypt
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Dalia Hassan is an Egyptian visual artist based in Toronto. Her practice is focused on drawing and abstraction and she is interested in the phenomena of consciousness and existence. She experiments with extending drawing to different media beyond paper.
In 2019 she was artist-in-residence at the Akin X MoCA Studio Program in Toronto. Hassan received her Bachelor of Visual Arts from the American University in Cairo in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in Cairo and Toronto.
EDUCATION
The American University in Cairo (AUC)
Bachelor of Arts: Art, 2007
EXHIBITIONS
Juried Art Exhibition Fundraiser, Visual Arts Center of Clarington, Ontario, 2020
At Intervals, Auto BLDG, Toronto, 2020
New Measures, Collision Gallery, Toronto, 2020
Studio Mates, Black Cat Showroom, Toronto, 2019
Fluid Streets, Akin Vitrine Gallery, Toronto, 2019
Open Lab Egypt [OLE], curated by Medrar for Contemporary Art, Viennoise Hotel, Cairo, Egypt, 2010
Pick 4, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2009
One Night, curated by Filippo Armati (ProHelvetia Artist-in-residence), Prince Taz Palace, Cairo, Egypt, 2008
For Seven Tea, BA Thesis Exhibition, Falaki Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2006
Imagining the Book II, Alexandria 2nd International Biennial for The Artist’s Book, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, 2006
Re-Investigating Vision, The Townhouse Gallery - OnSite, Cairo, Egypt, 2005
Investigating Vision, Falaki Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2005
ART FAIRS
Akin Collective, Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, 2020
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Exit Does Not Exit, site-specific interactive video installation in collaboration with Shaymaa Shoukry and Emma Benany, 2B Continued Theater and Dance Festival - 3rd Edition, Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt, 2011
Time Cycles on a Landscape of a Body, video art in collaboration with Shaymaa Shoukry, Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, Les Hivernals Festival of Avignon, Avignon, France, 2010
Skin Quartette + 1, video art in collaboration with Shaymaa Shoukry, 2B Continued Theater and Dance Festival - 2nd Edition, Falaki Theater, Cairo, Egypt, 2009
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Studio Mates, co-curated with Mel Hayes, Black Cat Showroom, Toronto, 2019
RESIDENCIES
Akin Studio Program at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, 2019- 2020
WORKSHOPS
Drawing to Communicate, TD Community Sunday, MOCA, Toronto
MENTIONS
Elias, Mariam. Thawret El Looool - Chats with Young Egyptian Artists, 2011
Jones, Katie. “Young Artist Impress at Townhouse.” Daily News Egypt, July 1 2009
El Tahawy, Randa. “Dalia Abdel Aziz a Visual Artist with a Vision.” Community Times, July 2009, Issue 162