Selected Solo Exhibitions:| 2025 | Now Showing: Youssef Nabil's I Saved My Belly Dancer, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, LA, U.S.A. | | 2022 | The Beautiful Voyage, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. | | 2022 | Memory of a Happy Place, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France. | | 2020 | Youssef Nabil, Once Upon A Dream, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy. | | 2019 | Youssef Nabil, Institut du Monde Arabe, Tourcoing, France. | | 2017 | Deep Roots, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Brussels, Belgium. | | 2017 | I Saved My Belly Dancer, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), U.S.A. | | 2016 | I Saved My Belly Dancer, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. | | 2015 | I Saved My Belly Dancer, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France. | | 2012 | Youssef Nabil, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France. | | 2011 | You Never Left, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France. | | 2010 | I Live Within You, Savannah College of Art and Design-SCAD, Savannah, U.S.A. | | 2010 | Youssef Nabil, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, U.S.A. | | 2009 | Youssef Nabil, GALERIST, Istanbul, Turkey. | | 2009 | I Live Within You, Savannah College of Art and Design-SCAD, Atlanta, U.S.A. | | 2009 | I Won't Let you Die, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy. | | 2009 | I Will Go to Paradise, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. | | 2009 | Youssef Nabil, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, Germany. | | 2008 | CINEMA, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. | | 2007 | Sleep in my arms, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. | 2007
| Portraits / Self portraits, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E. | | 2005 | Realities to Dreams, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt. | | 2003 | Pour un Moment d'Éternité, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France. | | 2001 | Obsesiones, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico. | | 2001 | Youssef Nabil, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt. | | 1999 | Premiere, Cairo-Berlin Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. |
Selected Group Exhibitions:| 2025 | L’horizon sans fin, de la Renaissance à nos jours. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. France. | | 2025 | Regards intemporels : des pharaons à aujourd'hui, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium. | | 2024 | Exils, Musée du Louvre, Lens, France. | | 2024 | Le Temps d’un Rêve, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France. | | 2024 | Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. | | 2024 | De Renava - Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Bonifacio, La Corse, France. | | 2022 | Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, LA, U.S.A. | | 2021 | Beyond Colour, Black and White in the Pinault Collection, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes, France. | | 2021 | Reflections, Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. The British Museum, London, U.K. | | 2021 | A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, U.S.A. | | 2020 | Histories of Dance, MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. | | 2020 | Orientalisms, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain. | | 2019 | The 13th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt. | | 2018 | The Shapes of Birds: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
| | 2018 | BOTH, AND. Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. | | 2018 | Beyond Words, 4th Mardin Biennial, Turkey | | 2018 | Al Musiqa, Cité de la Musique - Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France. | | 2017 | Hips Don’t Lie, Centre Pompidou Paris, France | | 2017 | A Painting Today, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa | | 2016 | Looking at the World Around You, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain. | | 2016 | Hips Don’t Lie, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Spain | | 2016 | The Blue Hour, Centro Cultural de Santa Cruz, Biennale of the Visual Arts of Santa Cruz, Bolivia. | | 2016 | Portrait of the Artist as an Alter, FRAC Haute-Normandie, France. | | 2016 | Dream Light, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, U.S.A. | | 2016 | Botticelli Reimagined, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK | | 2015 | The Botticelli Renaissance, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany | | 2015 | Home Ground, Aga Khan Museum of Art, Toronto, Canada. | | 2015 | The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C, U.S.A. | | 2015 | Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, LA, U.S.A. | | 2014 | The Divine Comedy, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists,
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. | | 2014 | The Divine Comedy, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary African Artists,
MMK Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. | | 2014 | Ri-conoscere Michelangelo, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy. | | 2013 | Tea with Nefertiti, IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain. | | 2013 | Matisse à Nice, Palmiers, Palmes et Palmettes, Musée Masséna, Nice, France. | | 2013 | Sous Influences, Arts Plastiques et Psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France. | | 2013 | Safar Voyage, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada. | | 2013 | Ici, Ailleurs, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France. | | 2012 | Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K. | | 2012 | The Royal Academy of Arts Encounter, Cultural Village Foundation Katara, Doha, Qatar. | | 2012 | Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. | | 2012 | Édouard et Cléopâtre, Égyptomanies depuis le XIXe siècle, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. | | 2012 | Pose/Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. | | 2011 | Facing Mirrors, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece. | | 2011 | Of Women's Modesty and Anger, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium. | | 2010 | Told, Untold, Retold, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. | | 2010 | Portraits, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium. | | 2009 | Unconditional Love, The Venice Biennale - 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy. | | 2009 | ARABESQUE, Arts of The Arab World, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, U.S.A. | | 2008 | Far From Home, North Carolina Museum of Art NCMA, North Carolina, U.S.A. | | 2008 | Portraits II, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil. | | 2008 | Last of the Dictionary Men, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, U.K. | | 2008 | Disguise, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. | | 2008 | Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, Musée National d'Art Moderne et Contemporain MNAMC, Alger, Algeria. | | 2008 | Perfect Lovers, Art Extra, Johannesburg, South Africa. | | 2007 | Gegenwart aus Jahrtausenden, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany. | | 2007 | Dialogues Méditerranéens, Saint-Tropez, France. | | 2006 | Arabiske Blikke, GL Strand Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. | | 2006 | Word into Art, The British Museum, London, U.K. | | 2006 | Images of the Middle East, Danish Center for Culture and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark. | | 2006 | 19 miradas. Fotógrafos árabes contemporáneos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain. | | 2005 | Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France. | | 2005 | Nazar, Photographs from the Arab World, The Aperture Foundation Gallery, New York, U.S.A. | | 2005 | L'Égypte, Saline Royale d'Arc et Senans, France. | | 2005 | Arab Eyes, FotoFest Houston, Texas, U.S.A. | | 2004 | Nazar: Noorderlicht, The Fries Museum, Leeuwaarden, The Netherlands. | | 2004 | Rites sacrés, Rites profanes: Zeitgenossiche Afrikanische Fotographie, Kornhausforum, Bern, Switzerland. | | 2004 | Staged Realities: Exposing the Soul in African Photography 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. | | 2004 | Bamako 03: Contemporary African Photography, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. | | 2003 | Rites sacrés, Rites profanes, Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali. |
Artist Talks:| 2020 | Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy | | 2018 | The University of Melbourne, Australia | | 2017 | Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), U.S.A | | 2016 | FRAC Haute-Normandie, France | | 2014 | The Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York, U.S.A | | 2013 | The Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E | | 2009 | Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Atlanta, U.S.A | | 2008 | University of North Carolina, U.S.A | | 2007 | American University in Dubai, U.A.E |
Monographs:| 2020 | Once Upon A Dream, Youssef Nabil - Marsilio | | 2013 | Youssef Nabil - Flammarion | | 2008 | I Won't Let you Die, Youssef Nabil - Hatje Cantz | | 2007 | Sleep in my Arms, Youssef Nabil - Autograph & Michael Stevenson |
Books and Exhibitions Catalogues:| The Landscape of Our Memories: Recent Works by Youssef Nabil, by Layla S. Diba, New York, July 2022 | | Some Thoughts on Youssef Nabil's "The Beautiful Voyage" Exhibition, by Bob Colacello, New York, 2022 | | Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse, by Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, USA, 2022. | | Au-Delà de la Couleur: Le Noir et le Blanc dans la Collection Pinault, by : Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Colin Lemoine, Dilecta, France, 2021 | | Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, by: Venetia Porter, Charles Tripp, Natasha Morris. The British Museum, England, 2021 | | A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean, by Shiva Balaghi. Orlando Museum of Art. USA, 2021 | | Youssef Nabil - Once Upon a Dream, by Youssef Nabil, André Aciman, François Pinault, Matthieu Humery, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, Linda Komaroff. Marsilio. Italy, 2020. | | Histórias Da Dança, by Adriano Pedrosa; Julia Bryan-Wilson; Olivia Ardui. MASP Museum. Brazil, 2020. | | Africa State of Mind: Contemporary Photography Reimagines a Continent, by Ekow Eshun. Thames & Hudson. England, 2020. | | Les Langages De L’image - De la peinture aux Big Visual Data. by Maria Giulia Dondero. Hermann Editions. France, 2020 | | Arles, Les Rencontres de la Photographie - 50 Ans d'Histoire, by Françoise Denoyelle. Editions de la Martinière. France, 2019. | | ARABICITY, by Rose Issa and Juliet Cestar. Saqi Books. England, 2019. | | The Shapes of Birds: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, by Francine Weiss, Newport Art Museum, 2018 | | Contemporary Voices from the Asian and Islamic Art Worlds, by Olivia Sand, 2018 | African Lights : A New Contemporary, 2018
| | Botticelli Reimagined. Mark Evans, Stefan Weppelmann, Ana Debenedetti, Ruben Rebmann, Mary McMahon and Gabriel Montua. V&A Publishing. London, 2016. | | The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists. Simon Njami. Kerber. Germany. 2015 | | Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East. Linda Komaroff. LACMA. USA. 2015 | | View From Inside Contemporary Arab Photography Video and Mixed Media Art. Wendy Watriss, Karin Adrian Von Roques, Dr.Claude W.Sui. Thames and Hudson, London, 2014 | | Music Palace, the Power of Music seen by Visual Artists. Diana Wiegersma, Joseph Ghosn, Pacôme Thiellement and Hind Meddeb. Boghossian Foundation, Belgium. 2014. | | After Orientalism: Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-Appropriations. François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin, BRILL. USA. 2014. | | Ri-conoscere Michelangelo La scultura del Buonarroti nella fotografia e nella pittura dall'Ottocento a oggi. Monica Maffioli e Silvestra Bietoletti. Giunti, Italy 2014 | | Photography: A Cultural History. Mary Warner Marien, Pearson, London 2013 | | Le théoreme de Néfertiti : Itinéraire de l'oeuvre d'art : la création des icônes, Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath, Paris, Skira, Flammarion 2013 | | Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists, texts by Fereshteh Daftari and Jill Baird, Anthony Shelton, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Derek Gregory, Vancouver, Douglas & Mcintyre Publishers Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, 2013 | | Ici, ailleurs, Juliette Laffon [dir.], « Youssef Nabil », Bernard Collet, Paris, Skira Flammarion, 2013 | | Light from the Middle East: New Photography, texts by Marta Weiss, Venetia Porter, Kate Best, Stephen Deuchar,London, The Victoria & Albert Museum, 2012 | | Encounter: The Royal Academy in the Middle East, texts by David Thorp, Kathy Battista, London, The Royal Academy of Arts / Singapore, Fortune Cookie, 2012 | | Il corpo solitario. L'autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea, text by Giorgio Bonomi, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012 | | 100 Ideas that Changed Photography, text by Mary Warner Marien, London, Laurence King Publishing, 2012 | | Égyptomanies depuis le XIXe siècle, Édouard et Cléopâtre, textes de Diane Hennebert, Bruxelles, Fondation Boghossian, 2012 | | Vingt-Cinq Ans de créativité arabe, textes de Véronique Rieffel et Ehab Ellaban, Paris, Institut du monde arabe, 2012 | | Collect Contemporary Photography, text by Jocelyn Phillips, London, Thames & Hudson, 2012 | | Le Corps découvert, textes de Liliane Karnouk, Philippe Cardinal et Hoda Makram-Ebeid, Paris, Hazan / Institut du monde arabe, 2012 | | Photographie contemporaine, mode d'emploi, Élisabeth Couturier, Paris, Flammarion, 2011 | | Talk about contemporary Photography, Élisabeth Couturier, Paris, Flammarion, 2012 | | Contemporary Art: World Currents, text by Terry Smith, London, Laurence King Publishing, 2011 | | Arab Photography Now, texts by Rose Issa and Michket Krifa, Heidelberg, Kehrer, 2011 | | Islamania, de l'Alhambra à la burqa, histoire d'une fascination artistique, texte de Véronique Rieffel, Paris, Beaux-Arts éditions, 2011 | | A tu per tu con I grandi fotografi, text by Manuela de Leonardis, Roma, Postcart, 2011 | | Told, Untold, Retold, texts by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Paris, Skira, 2010 | | Youssef Nabil - I Live Within You, texts by Laurie Ann Farrell and Melissa Messina, Savannah, SCAD, 2010 | | Photography and Egypt, text by Maria Golia, Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2010 | | Art of the Middle East, texts by Saeb Eigner and Zaha Hadid, London, Merrell, 2010 | | Contemporary African Art since 1980, texts by Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Bologna, Damiani, 2009 | | Unconditional Love, text by Fanny Ardant, Moscow, Buro 17, 2009 | | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, texts by Sahar Amer and Martine Antle, Oxford and New York,Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009 | | Qu'est-ce que la photographie aujourd'hui ? texte de Michket Krifa, Paris, Beaux-Arts éditions, 2009 | | Making Worlds - La Biennale di Venezia 53. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, text by Brian Droitcour,Venice, Marsilio / Rizzoli, 2009 | | New Vision, Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, texts by Hossein Amirsadeghi, Salwa Mikadi and Nada Shabout, London, Transglobal Publishing / Thames & Hudson, 2009 | | Future Images, text by Mario Cresci, Milan, Motta, 2009 | | Contemporary art in the Middle East, texts by Nat Muller, Lindsey Moore, TJ Demos and Suzanne Cotter, London, Black Dog Publishing, 2009 | | Aish, An other Islam, An other Art, texts by Ivan Ferrari and Gaia Serena Simionati, Paris, Skira, 2009 | | Youssef Nabil - I Won't Let you Die, texts by Octavio Zaya, Shirin Neshat, Ghada Amer and Faten Hamama, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2008 | | Disguise, text by Joost Bosland, Cape Town, Michael Stevenson, 2008 | | In the Arab World. Now, texts by Jérôme Sans, Fabrice Bousteau, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Paris, Enrico Navara, 2008 | | Youssef Nabil - Sleep in My Arms, texts by Tracey Emin, Simon Njami, Michael Stevenson and Mark Sealy, London, Autograph / Cape town, Michael Stevenson, 2007 | | Youssef Nabil - Portraits / Self-Portraits, text by Rose Issa, Dubai, The Third Line, 2007 | | Gegenwart aus Jahrtausenden, Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Agypten, texts by Dieter Ronte and Karin Adrian Von Roques,Cologne, Wienand, 2007 | | Dialogues méditerranéens, Paris, Beaux-Arts éditions, 2007 | | Créations artistiques contemporaines en pays d'Islam - Des arts en tensions, texte de Jocelyne Dakhlia, Paris, Kimé, 2006 | | Word into Art - Artists of the Modern Middle East, text by Venetia Porter, London, British Museum, 2006 | | NAZAR, Photographs from the Arab World, texts by Michket Krifa, Negar Azimi, Isolde Brielmaier and Peter Lewis,New York, Aperture, 2005 | | Youssef Nabil - Portraits, text by Sunny Rahbar, Dubai, The Third Line, 2005 | | Regards des photographes arabes contemporains, texte de Nabil Naoum, Paris, Institut du monde arabe, 2005 | | Bamako 03 - Fotografia Africana Contemporania, texts by Simon Njami and Negar Azimi, Barcelona, MACBA, 2004 | | Cinquièmes Rencontres de la photographie africaine - Rites sacrés, rites profanes, texte de Simon Njami, AFAA, 2003 | | "Les Méditerranées", Area revues, no 5, textes de Olivier Gaulon et Alin Avila, Paris, 2003 | | Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles, textes de Francois Hebel et Michket Krifa, Arles, Actes Sud, 2003 | | Modern Egyptian Art 1910-2003, text by Liliane Karnouk, Cairo, American University in Cairo Press, 2003 | | Youssef Nabil, Cairo, Townhouse Gallery, 2002 | | Youssef Nabil - Obsesiones, text by Martha Zamora, Mexico City, Centro de la Imagen, 2001 | | Arts and The Islamic World - Egypt, the Arts in View, text by James Parry, 2001 | | Youssef Nabil - Premiere, Cairo, Cairo-Berlin Art Gallery, 1999 |
Videos:| 2021 | The Beautiful Voyage
With Charlotte Rampling and Youssef Nabil
8 mins | | 2016 | Arabian Happy Ending
28 mins | | 2015 | I Saved My Belly Dancer
With Salma Hayek and Tahar Rahim
12 mins | | 2010 | You Never Left
With Fanny Ardant and Tahar Rahim
8 mins |
Awards & Recognitions:| 2022 | Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, France. | | 2021 | Artist of the Year/ Man of the Year Award, GQ Magazine, U.A.E. | | 2003 | The Seydou Keita Prize for Portraiture, Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali. |
Residencies:| 2003 | Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. |
Acquisitions:| Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, U.S.A. | | Collection François Pinault, Paris, France. | | The Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France. | | The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, U.S.A. | | La Maison Européenne de La photographie, Paris, France. | | The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, LA, U.S.A. | | The Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, U.S.A. | | The British Museum, London, U.K. | | The Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K. | | The Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. | | Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. | | Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda, Angola. | | SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, U.S.A | | Centro De La Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico. | | Musée Réattu, Arles, France | | UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland | | Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France. | | Barjeel Art Foundation, U.A.E. | | Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece. |
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