Sawsan Amer Explained

Sawsan Amer
Birth Place:	Cairo, Egypt
Nationality:	Egyptian
Occupation:	Artist, Painter, Professor

Sawsan Amer (سوسن عامر; born 1937, in Cairo)^[1] is an Egyptian painter and art educator, considered as a pioneer Egyptian woman artist.^[2] She has been Director of the Art Research Unit at the Academy of the Arts and a professor on the faculty of Art Education at the College of Art Education.

Education and career

Amer graduated from the College of Art Education, and has been Director of the Art Research Unit at the Academy of the Arts and a professor on the faculty of Art Education. She has authored a book and numerous articles on folk art,^[3] which has also inspired other artist's work.^[4] Furthermore, she was also noted for her paintings on glass and her collages,^[5] combining traditional iconography with personal imagery.^[6] Her work, inspired by traditional Arabic architecture,^[7] is known for its rich color sense.^[8]

Awards

• Cairo Salon, 1972^[9]
• Research Award from the Egyptian Committee on Public Art, 1991 ^[9]

Exhibitions

• Egyptian Cultural Center, Paris, 1978^[9]
• Egyptian Cultural Center, Paris, 1984^[9]
• Arab Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 1994 ^{[5] [9]}
• Egyptian Contemporary Art exhibition, Beirut, 1995^[9]
• Egyptian Artists, Beijing, 1994-1995 ^[9]

External links

• Sawsan Amer (in Arabic)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amer, Sawsan . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 10 October 2021 . en .
2. Book: El saadi, Hoda. Women Pioneers of Egyptian Art: Words and Images. 2007. Women and Memory forum.
3. Web site: Sawsan Amer . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180929190902/http://wwol.is.asu.edu/amer.html . 29 September 2018 . 28 February 2018 . The World's Women On-Line!.
4. Book: Karnouk, Lilian. Modern Egyptian art, 1910-2003. The American University in Cairo Press. 2005. 239.
5. News: Burnham . Anne Mullin . 1994 . Reflections in Women's Eyes . Saudi Aramco World . live . 24 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220703021503/https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/199401/reflections.in.women.s.eyes.htm . 3 July 2022.
6. Web site: The contemporary art of Arab women.
7. Book: Aziza, Mohamed. L'Image et l'Islam: l'image dans la société arabe contemporaine. 95. Albin Michel. 1978. French.
8. Book: Nashashibi, Salwa Mikdadi. Forces of change: artists of the Arab world. 94. International Council for Women in the Arts. 1994.
9. News: Nawar . Ahmed . January 2005 . Sawsan Amer . Arabic . Al Hayat . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615085653/https://fenon.com/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%86-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1-sawsan-amer/ . 15 June 2011.