2010 Recipients
Artist Hala Elkoussy
Hala Elkoussy was born in Cairo in 1974. She studied at the American University before completing an MA in Image and Communication at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She lectured on photography in 2002-2003. In 2004, she co-founded the Contemporary Image Collective, an artist-run initiative dedicated to the visual image, based in Cairo. In 2006, she completed a two year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, which is where she had met curator Jelle Bouwhuis in 2005.
Bouwhuis curated a solo show with Elkoussy at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam in 2006, entitled Peripheral (and other) stories. Recently, Elkoussy’s work was exhibited in Goteborg Konsthall, Sweden, the 9th Sharjah Biennial, Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Elkoussy’s work delves into the intimate and overlooked sides of communal living to highlight underlying dynamics at play within the complex urban structure that is Cairo.
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