Mohamed Monaiseer Egyptian, b. 1989
Mohammed Monaiseer works through drawings and paintings that resemble heritage craft, delineating mystical and transcendental concepts such as alchemy, metaphysics and oral histories. The obsessive-like repetition observed in his works comments on the potency of a word or figure after it has been multiplied and reproduced ad nauseam. Monaiseer received his BA in Educational Art and MFA from Cairo University. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including TEFAF Maastricht (2023), and his solo exhibitions include Limen: Thresholds, Tabari Artspace, UAE (2025), I, PET LION, Gypsum Gallery, Egypt (2024), Adrift in the Labyrinth of a Parallel Mind, Athr Gallery, Jeddah (2019) and Taxidermy Dreams, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai (2019).
EDUCATION
2015, MFA, Cairo University
2011, BA, Educational Art, Cairo University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025, Limen: Thresholds/ ليمين: الجير وعتبات اخري, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, UAE
2024, I, PET LION, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2019, Adrift in the Labyrinth of a Parallel Mind, Athr, Jeddah, KSA
2019, Taxidermy Dreams, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2018, Taxidermy Dreams, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2015, Barzakh, Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2014, Muted, Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2013, Mohamed Monaiseer, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024, Long Story Short, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2024, Bridging Cairo & New York, Saphira & Ventura Gallery, New York, USA
2024, Art Cairo, Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
2022, Silent Rhythm, Unit 7, London, UK
2019, A Language of Form - Records of Time Tracing, Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India
2019, Art D’Egypte: Reimagined Narratives, Al Mu’iz Street, Cairo, Egypt
2019, Naphtha, Khuzam Palace, Jeddah, KSA
2019, Out of Place, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
2018, Art D’Egypte: Nothing Vanishes Everything Transforms, Manial Palace, Cairo, Egypt
2018, Something Else – Off Biennale, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt
2018, Nest, Al Riwak Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
2018, Refusing to be Still, 21,39, Jeddah, KSA
2017, The Clocks Are Striking Thirteen, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, KSA
2016, Blind Date, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2016, Mass Alexandria: End of Year Exhibition, Alexandria, Egypt
2015, Roznama 4, Medrar, Cairo, Egypt
2015, Group show, Falak, Cairo, Egypt
2015, The Bridge, Caravan Arts Europe, Chicago, USA
2015, Back to the Origins, Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center, Cairo, Egypt
2015, Supermarket Art Fair, Artellewa Art Space, Cairo, Egypt
2014, 25th Youth Salon, Palace of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt
2013, 24th Youth Salon, Palace of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt
2013, Open Exhibition, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2013, Open Exhibition, Sodic, Cairo, Egypt
2013, Group show, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt
2013, Group show, Hotel Viennoise, Cairo, Egypt
2012, Smash, The Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2012, Group show, Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt
2011, 22nd Youth Salon, Palace of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt
2011, On the Edge, Mashrabiya Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2010, Group show, Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Cairo, Egypt
2010, 21st Youth Salon, Palace of the Arts, Cairo, Egypt
2009, Group show, Biennale Port Said, Port Said, Egypt
ART FAIRS
2026, Art Basel Qatar
2025, Art Basel, Miami, US
2025, Art Lagos, Lagos
2023, TEFAF Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
RESIDENCIES
2023, Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain
2019, La Place, Barcelona, Spain
2019, Delfina Foundation, London, UK
2018, Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
2016, Mass Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
AWARDS
2015, Youth Salon Ministry of Culture Prize, Egypt
2009, Siwa Prize, Ministry of Culture, Egypt
PRESS
2025, Innocuous Colonialism: I, Pet Lion, Mada Masr
2024, Long Story Short, A Summer Group Show at Gypsum Gallery, The Arab Art Review
2024, Exhibition: Bridging Cairo and New York, Egyptian Gazette
