Huda Lutfi

Professions: Artist, Researcher

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Visual Artist

Huda Lutfi

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


Cairo

Egypt

 

Education


PhD, Arab and Islamic Cultural History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1983.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Art

Discourses and Representations of Women and Gender

Islamic History and Culture

Medieval History

Muslim Political Thought

Religious and Cultural Practices

 

WORK HISTORY


Visual Artist with exhibitions in Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Bahrain, and the United States.

Associate Professor of History, Department of Arabic Studies, American University in Cairo, 1984-2011.

Member, Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, American University in Cairo.

Productions and Works


Cut and Paste, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2013. Huda Lutfi: Twenty Years of Art, Tache Art, Cairo, Egypt, 2011.

Portraits Revisited, Gallery Frederick Moisson, Paris, 2009. Zan'it al-Sittat, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE, 2008.

More than thirty other solo and group exhibitions.

Available publications on WMLDC.

Multiple Truths workshop, 9 months duration. Worked on a group workshop focusing on the media, which developed into an archival project collecting information for an online urban dictionary of the January continuing revolution.

(Project is still in progress.) The group also published a small publication entitled: Pocket Dictionary of the Revolution, containing short texts of important political terms accompanied by caricatures. 2012.

AWARDS


Artist Residency, Creative Fusion International Artists in Residence, Cleveland, Ohio. 2014. Artist Residency, Association 24h pour l’art Contemporain, Tunisia. 2013.

Artist Residency, Kunsthalle Nikolaj, Copenhagen. 2010.