Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Moataz Nasr: Bottle Neck, Galleria Continua, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2023

Moataz Nasr: Retour d'Égypte, Galleria Continua, Paris, France

2022

Tectonic Shift, Spostamento Tettonico, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2021

Delicate Balance, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, United States of America

2019

Paradise Lost, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
The liminal space, Castel del Monte, Italy

2017

The Mountain, Egyptian Pavilion, the 57^thBiennale of Venice, Venice, Italy

2016

Avalanche, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

2014

Art Talks Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2015

Broken Patterns, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, United States of America
The Maze, The European forum Arts and local communities, Abbaye de Noirlac, Bruère-Allichamps, France

2013

The Journey of a Griffin, Villa Pachhiani, Centro Espositivo, Santa Croce sull’Arno, Italy
Harmonia, Centro Espositivo per le Arti Contemporanee, Pisa, Italy
Tectonic Shift, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

2012

Collision, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Moataz Nasr / Hidden Landscape, Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway
The Tunnel, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

2011

In a Nutshell, Selma Feriani Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Moataz Nasr – The Maze (The People Want the Fall of the Regime),Gothenburg, Sweden
Réactions en chaîne,Château de Blandy-Les-Tours, Blandy, France 
The Other Side of the Mirror, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2008

A Memory Fills with Holes, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Cairo walk, Sultan Gallery, Sabhan, Kuwait

2006

Moataz Nasr, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Entrapment, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2005

The Echo, Touchstones Art Gallery, Rochdale, United Kingdom

2004

Moataz Nasr, Falaki Gallery, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

2003

Moataz Nasr, Franco Riccardo Gallery, Napoli, Italy

2001

Moataz Nasr, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2000

Moataz Nasr, Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris, Paris, France

1999

Moataz Nasr, Al Ahram House Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Unhealed, Moderna Museet, Malmo, Sweden

2023

From The Ground Up, Galleria Continua, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
From The Ground Up II, Galleria Continua, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection, Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA
UNTITLED Abstractions, Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF), Beirut, Lebanon 

2022

In The Heat, Galleria Continua, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Ability To Dream, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2021

Truc à Faire, Gallery Continua, Paris, France
Ithra – Seing & Perceiving, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Ithra, Dhahran,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Macao International Biennial, Macao
Never Cross the Same River Twice, International Contemporary Film Performance,Athens, Greece 
Forever is Now, Giza Pyramids, Giza, Egypt
Reimagined Memories, Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Cities Under Quarantine: The Mailbox Project, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
Postcolonial Ecologies, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Di Tutti I Colori, Galleria Continua, Rome, Italy
The Nude: Sexuality, Dalloul art Foundation (DAF), Beirut, Lebanon

2020

Sculpture Projects, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech, Morocco
Orientalismos/Orientalism, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

2019

The 13th Bienal de la Habana, Habana, Cuba
Do ut Do, Parco Archeologico di Pompei, Pompei, Italy
Fiac Hors Les Murs, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

2018

Second Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China
The International Contemporary Art Exhibition ICAE, Yaravan, Armenia
The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Persona Grata, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée National de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
Abu Dhabi Art – Beyond, Al Jahili Fortress, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

2017

Ciao Italia, Musée National de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France
Metropolis, Afriques Capitales, La Villette, Paris, France

2016

D’une Méditerranée, l’autre, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France
Essentiel paysage, Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain, Foundation Alliances, Marrakesh, Morocco
Icastic-Anything to Declare?,Camera di Commercio, Prato, Italy
Senses of Time: Video and film-based Arts of Africa,Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Washington, United States of America
Senses of Time: Video and film-based Arts of Africa, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, Washington, United States of America
Dak’Art – Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain, Dakar, Senegal
Da Sud a Sud, Fondazione Corriere della Sera, Bari, Italy
A place in Time, Voice Gallery, Krugersdorp, Zambia

2015

Follia Continua!,Le CENTQUATE, Paris, France
Icastica Arezzo Art Festival, Arezzo, Italy
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, United States of America
All The World’s a Mosque, Ancient Theatre of Carthage, Tunisia
Too early, too late: Middle East and Modernity, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Forum européen Arts et Territoires, Abbaye de Noirlac, Bruère-Allichamps, France

2014

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, United States of America
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Made by… Feito por Brasileiros”, a creative invasion, Cidade Matrazzo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Park in Progress 11, Nicosia, Cyprus
Easts – Contemporary Visions – Villa Ada Meets the World, Multicultural Festival, Rome, Italy
The sea is my and – aristi dal Mediterraneo, Emanuel Mazzonis, Triennale, Milan, Italy
Arab Contemporary – Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

2013

Terms and conditions, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Tappeti estremi, da Timbuctù all’Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy
In Peace and with compassion: The way forward – 5^thCaravan Festival of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt
Métamorphose, Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires, Huê, Vietnam
Every Day Matters, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Turbulences II, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium 
Pen to Paper,Al Madad Foundation, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Cadavre exquis, suite méditerranéenne, Musée Granet and Marseille Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

2012

Long Live Free Art!, Art Talks Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
In Spite of it All, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Fictions and dissentions – 3^rdInternational Çanakkale Biennial, Çanakkale, Turkey
Par Nature, Le CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
Métamorphose, Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires, Musée Bargoin, Clermont – Ferrand, France 
Where is the Time?, Foundation IZOLYATSIA, Donetsk, Ukraine
Mediterraneo: incontri o conflitti?, Palazzo Gargasole, Gagliano del Capo, Italy
Radici, Memoria, Identità e Cambiamento nell’arte di oggi, a cura di Eugenio Viola, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Palazzo De Sanctis Castelbasso, Italy
Arab Express, The Latest Art from the Arab World,Tokyo, Japan
Dak’Art, African Contemporary Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
Intrecci, Museo delle Trame Mediterranee, Gibellina, Italy
Moataz Nas-Loris Cecchini, Studio Carlotta Pesce, Bologna, Italy
A bordo del Cuore d’Oro, 7^thedition of Bologhna Art First – Arte Fiera, Palazzo d’Accursio, Bologna, Italy
Histories of Now: Six artists from Cairo, Museum School and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States of America

2011

Resistance, DARB 1718, Cairo, Egypt
Dancing on the Edge Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
Miniatures - 14^thIslamic Art Festival, Sharjah Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Images Affranchies, Banque du Maroc, Marrakesh, Morocco 
Machine-RAUM Festival, Vejle Art Museum, Vejle, Denmark
A Rock and a Hard Place, Old Intersections – Make it New, 3^rdThessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA), Thessaloniki, Greece
The Mystical Self, ARTVerona and [.BOX.], Milan, Italy
Revolutionary Bodies, Asinara Island, Italy

2010

Fames: Family Vaudeville, DARB 1718, Cairo, Egypt
Sphère 3, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Chatel, France
21^stCentury: Art in the first Decade, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Time After Time: Actions and Interactions, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, United States of America
Hiwar, DARB 1718, Cairo, Egypt
Rencontres PICHA,2^ndLubumbashi Biennale, Lubumbashi, Congo
GEO-graphics – A map of ART practices in AFRICA, past and present, Centre for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium 
Idoles, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
Un peu, beacoup, passionnement…, Galerie Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, Lebanon
Barakat: The Gift, Stux Gallery, New York, United States of America
Hiwar/Discussion, Galerie Le Violon Bleu, Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia 

2009

Taswir, Islamische Bildwelten und moderne, Martin-Gropius-Beau, Berlin, Germany
Made in Afrika, Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya
Amnesia, Nairobi Arts Trust and Contemporary Art of East Africa (CCAEA), Nairobi, Kenya
[un]defined09 – Merano Arts Festival, Merano, Italy
Reflections of Africa, National Museum of Modern and contemporary Art, Algiers, Algeria
The African Contemporary Art, Exhibition Center, Algiers, Algeria
Mediterranean, Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy
Coexistencias / Coexistences, 2^ndCanary Islands Biennale, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 
MidEast Cut, The Danish Film Institute & Backyard Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Shoes, Ebdaa Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2008

Al Madina, Ebdaa Art Gallery, Mohandessin, Egypt
Traversées, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt
Resilience, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France
Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Centre Cervantes, Fez, Morocco
Traversées (Crossings),Grand Palais, Paris, France

2007

Dans la ville et au-delà, Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie de Bamako 2007, Paris, France
The Sneeze, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa
L’invention de la mémoire, Escape Jeumont, Saint-Denis, France
24^thMemorial NSEŽDA PETROVIĆ, Belgrade, Serbia
AFRICA REMIX, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

2006

Another World. Bamako 2005, European Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
AFRICA REMIX, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Un autre monde– 6e edition de la photographie de Bamako, Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, FranceL’image révélée : de l’orientalisme à l’art contemporain, Musée de la Ville de Tunis, Palais Kheireddine, Tinus, Tunisia
AFRICA REMIX, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Cross-Currents: Water as a Metaphor for (African) Identity?, Tufts University Art Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, United States of America
Ghosts of Self and State, Monash University Museum of Art, Monash, Melbourne, Australia

2005

Bamako Biennale for African Photography, Mali
The 2^ndInternational Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
The 7^thSharjah Biennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
AFRICA REMIX, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Forming with Light, Palace of Art, Opera House, Cairo, Egypt
4x4, Artists Space, Broadway, New York, United States of America
Imagining The Book, Alexandria Library, Alexandria, Egypt
Loose Your Identity, Kunstverein Kreis, Ludwigsburg, Germany
French Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria
AFRICA REMIX, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom 

2004

The 25^thSao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil
AFRIKA REMIX, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Dak’art, 7^thDakar Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
Le Opera e I giorni, Triennale, Certosa di Padula, Italy
Milly Pozzi Arte Contemporanea, Como, Italy
Sneeze 80x80, Athens, Greece

2003

The 50^thBiennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Disorientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

2002

Dak’art, 6^thDakar Biennale, Senegal
Unplugged, Arts Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
You can Touch, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt

2001

Intresecus-Extrincus, Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy
Ambiente: Le Area Non Protette, Palazzo Pretorio Sala del Consiglio Communale, Sondrio, Italy
Cairo Modern Art Exhibition in Denhag, Holland
The 8^thInternational Cairo Biennale, Opera Arts Palace, Egypt

2000

The Palm Tree, Mashrabeya Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
For Jerusalem, Hanager Opera House, Cairo, Egypt
The 5^thCairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Opera House Arts Palace, Cairo,Egypt

1999

The 27^thNational Exhibition for Fine Arts, Opera House Arts Palace, Cairo, Egypt

1989

The 26^thNational Exhibition for Fine Arts, Akhnaton Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt
The First Show for Artists over 35 years and honored, Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt
The 4^thCairo International Biennale for Ceramics, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt
The Days of kom Ghorab, Hanager Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

1997

The 25^thNational Exhibition for Fine Arts, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt

1996

The 24^thNational Exhibition for Fine Arts, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt

1995

The 7^thSalon of Youth, Center of Art, Cairo, Egypt

Awards

2001

Awarded by the 8^thInternational Cairo Biennale Jury, Cairo, Egypt

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
The Khalid Shoman Foundation – Darat al funun, Amman, Jordan
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
La Bodega lounge, Cairo, Egypt
Al Maaden Park of Sculptures, Marrakech, Morocco
Artos Cultural and Research Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy
Museo del Cristallo, Colle val d’Elsa, Italy