Fathi Hassan
Fathi Hassan is an Egyptian artist who was born in Cairo in 1957 to both Nubian and Egyptian parents. He attained a grant to study Set Design at the Naples Art School in Italy. After graduating in 1984, he decided to stay and live in Le Marche, Italy. His calligraphic body of work, from colourful collages highlighted by words and symbols, explore the theme of ancient languages erased by colonial domination. Hassan’s work is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, and The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art. He currently resides and works between the UK and Italy.
2017 On the Road, Pio Monti Gallery, Rome, Italy
2017 Cortesie Per Gli Ospiti, Curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
2017 Slavery, A.I.C.A, Milan, Italy
2017 Animalia, Curated by Angelo Capasso and Nikla Cingolani, Galleria Monti, Rome, Italy
2016 African Art against the State, Williams Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
British Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Rosini Gutman Foundation, Riccione, Italy
Clark Atlanta University Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, California, USA
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE
Fondazione Fausto Radici, Bergamo, Italy
Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Rome, Italy
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
Symphonia SGR, Milan, Italy
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
