Nermine Hammam
Nermine Hammam is an Egyptian artist who lives and works in Cairo and London.
She was born in Cairo and later moved to England and then the United States in 1985. She received a BFA in film-making from the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. She worked in film with Simon & Goodman and then with Egyptian director Youssef Chahine. She was a production assistant on the 1992 Spike Lee film Malcolm X. Hammam subsequently worked as a graphic designer before moving on to visual arts and photography.
Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Egypt, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the United States, Kuwait and Singapore. Hammam's work is included in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam and the Parco Horcynus Orca in Italy.
In her exhibition Cairo Year One in London, Hammam used the style of traditional Japanese painting to present violent scenes from the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
