Iman Issa
Heritage Studies, 2015. Installation view at Pérez Art Museum, Miami. Mixed media, dimensions variable
Heritage Studies #6, 2015. Blackened wood, 50¾ x 35½ inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Cairo, Egypt, 1979
Resides: New York, New York
Education: Columbia University (M.F.A., 2007); American University in Cairo (B.F.A., 2001)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
"Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places," Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (January 12-April 2).
2015
"Material," 21er Haus, Vienna.
"Heritage Studies," Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Parables," Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
"Heritage Studies," Pérez Art Museum, Miami.
"Lexicon," Rodeo, London.
2013
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.
Tensta konsthall, Spånga, Sweden.
2012
"Material," Mercer Union, Toronto.
2011
"Material," Rodeo, Istanbul.
"Short Stories," SculptureCenter, New York.
2010
"Subjective Projections," Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany.
2008
"Making Places," Townhouse Gallery, Cairo.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
"Desires and Necessities," Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
"Nine Artists," Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa.
Mardin Biennial, Turkey.
Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates.
2014
"Buildering: Misbehaving the City," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Traveled to Blaffer Art Museum, Houston.
"A Glass Darkly, STROOM Den Haag," The Hague, Netherlands.
"Don't You Know Who I Am?," M HKA, Antwerp.
Berlin Biennale.
"Tea with Nefertiti," SMÄK, Munich.
"Conceptual and Applied III," Daimler Contemporary, Berlin.
Marrakech Biennale, Morocco.
2013
"Utopia Starts Small," Fellbach Triennial of Small Sculpture, Germany.
"Homeworks 6," Ashkal Alwan, Beirut.
"Speak, Memory," Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York.
"Le Théorème de Nefertiti," Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.
"Monuments," Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland.
2012
PhotoCairo 5, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo.
"Unrest: Revolt against Reason," Apexart, New York.
"Ruptures: Forms of Public Address," 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, New York.
"When It Stops Dripping from the Ceiling," Kadist Art Foundation, Paris.
Bucharest Biennale, Romania.
"The Ungovernables," New Museum, New York.
"Abstract Possible," Tensta konsthall, Spånga, Sweden.
2011
"Seeing Is Believing," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
"Propaganda by Monuments," Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo.
2010
Adelaide International 2010, Samstag Museum of Art, Australia.
2009
3 Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany.
2008
Gwangju Biennale, South Korea.
2007
"Memorial to the Iraq War," Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Selected Bibliography
2015
Vallés, Laura. "A Murmur in the White Cube," Concreta (October).
Voeller, Megan. "Iman Issa: Heritage Studies," Miami Rail (Summer).
Gat, Orit. "Iman Issa's Lexicon," Art Agenda (May 20).
Heald, Rebecca. "Iman Issa: Lexicon," Art Review (May).
Sutton, Kate. "Critics' Picks: Iman Issa at Rodeo, London," Artforum online (May).
Thorne, Harry. "Iman Issa: Lexicon," Studio International (March).
2014
Nawi, Diana. "Iman Issa: Lexicon," Universes in Universe (August).
Jankowicz, Mia. "Focus: Iman Issa-Fragmentary Fiction and Cryptic Objects," Frieze (January/February).
2012
Lind, Maria. "Learning from Memorials," Art Review (May).
"Forum: Triptych #6," Camera Austria International (Spring).
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen. "Radical Subtraction: Iman Issa,"Bidoun (Spring).
Abu ElDahab, Mai. "New York: Iman Issa," Mousse (February 12).