Khaled Hafez (born in Cairo, Egypt) studied medicine but abandoned his practice in the early nineties for a career in the arts. He obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute (New York, USA) and Danube University Krems, Austria. Hafez’s practice spans the mediums of painting, installation, photography and video. He has exhibited internationally with recent exhibitions including the 9th Bamako Encounters, Mali 2011 and 8th Mercusol Biennale, Porto Allegre, Brazil 2011. His works have been shown in festivals and biennials including recent participation in the Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain 2010, the 12th Cairo Biennale, Egypt 2010 and the Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece 2009. He has exhibited throughout museums including group shows at the Saatchi Gallery, Tate Modern, UK, MuHKA Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany among others. Hafez is Fulbright Fellow (2005) and a Rockefeller Fellow (2009) and his works reside in numerous international collections including Saatchi Collection, London, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium, Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and several other museums.

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