Sherin Guirguis Explained

Sherin Guirguis
Birth Date:1974
Birth Place:Luxor

Sherin Guirguis (born 1974 in Luxor, Egypt) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Guirguis has had solo exhibitions of her work at 18th Street Art Center (Santa Monica, California), The Third Line Gallery (Dubai),[1] Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Venice, California),[2] and LAXART (Los Angeles).[3] In 2012, Guirguis received the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists[4] and the 2014–15 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship.[5]

Her work is acquired or held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[6] Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[7] Orange County Museum of Art,[8] Las Vegas Art Museum,[9] U.S. Department of State,[10] and Metropolitan Authority Los Angeles. Guirguis is an associate professor in the Practice of Fine Art at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.[11]

Guirguis draws from Western and Middle Eastern influences as is seen in her Mashrabiya patterns punctuated by a bold neon palette.[12]

Her work was showcased at the Desert X exhibit in the Coachella Valley from February 25 – April 30, 2017. The Aviation/Century station for the Los Angeles Metro Rail system incorporates her artwork.[13]

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sherin Guirguis. The Third Line. 19 March 2017.
  2. Web site: Sherin Guirguis: El Biet El Kabeer. Shulamit Nazarian Gallery. 19 March 2017.
  3. Web site: Sherin Guirguis, Qasr El-Shoaq, Apr 3 - May 8, 2010. LAXART. 19 March 2017.
  4. Web site: About the Fellowships for Visual Artists. California Community Foundation. 19 March 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130217161407/http://my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/about/. 17 February 2013.
  5. Web site: City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowships. LA Weekly. 19 March 2017.
  6. Web site: Sherin Guirguis LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org. en. 2017-03-20.
  7. Web site: Mashrabeya The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. www.mfah.org. 2017-03-20.
  8. Web site: Sherin Guirguis Artists The Third Line Art Gallery Dubai. www.thethirdline.com. 2019-01-30.
  9. Web site: Las Vegas Art Museum Presents Las Vegas Diaspora. artdaily.cc. 2020-03-02.
  10. Web site: Sherin Guirguis – U.S. Department of State. art.state.gov. en-US. 2018-03-07.
  11. Web site: Sherin Guirguis. University of Southern California. 19 March 2017.
  12. Web site: Mohseni. Yasmine. Beyond the White Cube: Sherin Guirguis' Explosive New Series. The Huffington Post. 9 March 2012. 19 March 2017.
  13. News: An Early Look at All the Artwork Coming to the Metro Crenshaw Line Los Angeles Magazine. Broverman. Neal. 2018-01-22. Los Angeles Magazine. en-US. 2019-04-21. mdy-all.
  14. https://www.desertx.org/sherin-guirguis-alula
  15. Web site: Craft Contemporary. www.cafam.org. 2020-03-09.
  16. Web site: Sherin Guirguis: My Place is the Placeless. 2017-03-28. 18th Street Arts Center. en-US. 2020-03-09.
  17. Web site: Gallery 2: El Beit El Kabir Exhibitions The Third Line Art Gallery Dubai. www.thethirdline.com. 2020-03-09.

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