Anna Boghiguian
b. 1946. Anna Boghiguian lives and works in Cairo.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Anna Boghiguian, Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK
Anna Boghiguian: Le Carré, La Ligne et La Règle, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France
Anna Boghiguian, Artes Mundi, Wales, UK
Anna Boghiguian: Conversations on Limits and Unlimits, Mendes Wood DM Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2018
The Loom of History, New Museum, New York, US
Anna Boghiguian, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Anna Boghiguian, Retrospective Exhibition, Sharjah's Art Square, Sharjah, UAE
2017
Anna Boghiguian, Lo Studio, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporeano, Rivoli, Italy
Woven Winds, INDEX, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, MoMA, New York, US
Retrospective, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte, Torino, Italy
2016
A Walk in the Unconscious, Carré d'Art, Nimes, France
2015
Cities by the Rivers, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2013
Anna Boghiguian. Unstructured Diary for an Autobiography, Daad Galerie, Berlin, Germany
ZYX-XYZ an autobiography - odd times in life, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2011
A Poet on the Edges of History, Gallerie Gitti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
2010
A Voyage Through Cavafy's Alexandria-Watercolours by Anna Boghiguian, Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens, Greece
Anna Boghiguian, Gardens of Egypt, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2009
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2008
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2007
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2006
Péres, Kasr el Basha and Centre Culturel Français, Gaza, PLE & CCF of Amman, Jordan
Anna Boghiguian,Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2004
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2003
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2001
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Sacred Rivers: Anna Boghiguian, The American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
2000
Anna Boghiguian, Safar Khan Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1996
Drawings and Paintings on Constantine Cavafy, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt
Constantine Cavafy, Cavafy House, Alexandria, Egypt
1995
Mémoires d'un Voyageur, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt
1993
From Wax Images to Indian Tales, Berlin Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt; Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1992
Anna Boghiguian, Recent Works, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt
Anna Boghiguian, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1991
Anna Boghiguian, Dare-Dare, Montreal, Canada
1990
ZYX-XYZ, Dessins par Anna Boghiguian, Dare-Dare, Montreal, Canada
1989
Cities, Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt
1988
Anna Boghiguian, Peintures, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1987
Anna Boghiguian, Trains, Ragab Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1986
ZYX-XYZ, Galerie Forum, Athens, Greece
Anna Boghiguian, Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt
1985
Anna Boghiguian, Armenian Artistic Club, Cairo, Egypt
1984
Anna Boghiguian, Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt
1983
Anna Boghiguian, Atelier du Caire, Cairo, Egypt
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Nirin, 22nd Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
James Richards: Alms for the Birds, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporeano, Rivoli, Italy
2019
Could Be (An Arrow): A Reading of La Colección Jumex, Fondacion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
A la plume, au pinceau, au crayon: dessins du monde arabe, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
3rd Anazero Biennial, Coimbra, Portugal
2017
The Restless Earth, La Triennale de Milano, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milano, Italy
Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2016
THE UNFAITHFUL REPLICA, Centre de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Site Sante Fe International Biennial, Sante Fe, US
2015
Positions #2, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
56th Venice Biennial, Armenian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Armenien Pavillon 56, Espazione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
How to (talk about) things that don't exist - an exhibition developed out of the 31st Sao Paolo Biennale, Fundacao de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
2014
Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, US
31st Biennial de São Paolo, Brazil
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cartagena, Columbia
Tagore's Post Office, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
Anna Boghiguian and Taysir Batniji, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2013
Anna Boghiguian & Goshka Macuga: Tagore's Universal Allegories, INIVA, London, UK
Society for Contemporary Art: Acquisition Finalists 2013, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
Cross-Border, Künstlerinnen der Gegenwart aus dem arabischen Mittelmeerraum, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
2011
Plot for a Biennale, 2011 Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
2010
EL ELE, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Self-Consciousness, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany
What Happens When The Cheese is Gone? Works from the 11th International istanbul Biennale, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Palazza Valle, Catania, Italy
2009
What Keeps Mankind Alive? 11th International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Hand in Hand, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2008
In the Middle of the Middle, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2007
Heterotopias Biennale 1. Biennale of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
2003
Contemporary Arab Representation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Centro José Guerrero de la Diputacion de Granada, Granada, Spain; Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden
2002
Drawings . Straight from the artist's studio, Falaki Gallery, Cairo Egypt
2001
L'Art du Livre Arabe du Manuscrit ou Livre d'Artiste, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
1997
Constantine Cavafy, Galerie Athanor, Marseille, France
1994
Festival des Allumées, Nantes, France
Four Painters, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992
Paintings & Art Works Exhibitions, Armenian Artistic Club, Cairo, Egypt
Awards
2015
Golden Lion for best national participation, 56th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Collections
Neue Galerie Kassel, Germany
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Musée Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporeano, Rivoli, Italy
Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Tate Modern, London, UK
New Museum, New York, US
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
The Art Institute of Chicago, US
University of Chicago, US
Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
INIVIA, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
Fundacion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
INDEX, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
National Museum of Wales, Wales, UK
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France