Rehab El Sadek

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Education

Faculty of Fine Arts
Painting Department
Alexandria University, Egypt
Five-Year BFA Program (1994)

Selected Awards and Honors

2025 Tulsa Artist Fellowship

2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2023 Dallas Museum of Art | Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant

2022 Project Row Houses Southern Survey Biennial Prize, selected by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

2022 National Performance Network's Documentation & Storytelling Award

2021 The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Grant

2021 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award

2021 Texas Vignette Artist Grant

2021 National Performance Network (NPN) Artist Engagement Fund

2020 Pollock-Krasner Grant & The Carnegie Corporation Fellowship for Immigrant Artists

2020 Red Bull Arts MicroGrant

2019 Community Initiative Award, City of Austin, Cultural Arts Division

2019 Capacity Building Award, City of Austin, Cultural Arts Division

2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

2017-18 Inaugural Artist in Residence, City of Austin | Watershed Protection Department

2002 The Egyptian Department of State, Five States' Travel Grant Program, Egypt-USA

1999 Sharjah Biennale 4, Egyptian representative, Installation Prize (Second Place)

1998 Bursary Supported by UNESCO Culture and Art at Gasworks Studios, London, United Kingdom

1997-99 Merit Grants, The Ministry of Culture, Egypt

Selected Residencies

2026 Gastkünstler*innen AIR, Stadt Salzburg, Austria

2026 Ucross Clearmont, WY

2023-24 Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2024 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2023 BAU Institute Arts Residency, hosted by Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France

2023 The Anderson Center at Tower View, Red Wing, MN

2022 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2021 McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC

2021 100 WEST Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, Corsicana, TX

2020 MacDowell Artist Fellowship, Peterborough, NH

2020 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Johnson, VT

2020 The Good Hart Residency, MI

2019 The Art Omi Residency, Ghent, NY

2017-18 Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, City of Austin Watershed Protection Department, Austin, TX

2004 Thami Mnyele Residency Award, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003 The Townhouse Gallery International Residency, Cairo, Egypt

2001 Vasl Artists’ Association Residency/Triangle Network, Karachi, Pakistan

2000 3rd International Artists Residencies, Kuona Trust/Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya

1998 Gasworks Artists Studios, London, United Kingdom

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Re:Collection, M.L.K. Gallery, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, OK

2024 Americامريكانه Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2022-23 Artist Showcase, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Moore’s Crossing Gallery, Austin, TX

2022 Secret Place, Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX

2021 Pattern Language, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX

2021 Superposition, Samuel’s Clothiers historical space, Corsicana, TX

2019-20 Transient, Prizer Arts & Letters Gallery, Austin, TX

2019 The Memory Palace, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX

2018 Momentum, City of Austin Artist-in-Residence pop-up, 217 2nd Street, Austin, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2027 ArtNow, curated by Sarah Hearn, Oklahoma Contemporary Museum, OK

2024 Texas Vignette Art Fair, curated by Vivian Li, Dallas Market Hall, Dallas, TX

2024 Fellows Exhibition, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA

2022 Round 54: Southern Survey Biennial, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Project Row House, Houston, TX

2022 Places of Freedom and Containment, curated by Charlotta Kotik, Moore College of Art & Design, Phila., PA

2021 We Know Who We Are. We Know What We Want, curated by Vicki Meek, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX

2021 Spaces Between, curated by Jonell Logan, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC

2020 The Imminent Arrival, The Immigrant Artist Biennial (TIAB), NYC (virtual)

2019 Intersections, curated by Coka Trevino ‘The Projecto’, Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2019 Texas Art, juried by Jennie Goldstein, The Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX

2018 The Fifth Regional Exhibition, Curated by Christina Rees, Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX

2018 Vignette Art Fair, The Women's Museum, Dallas, TX

2017 African Amicitiae, Arti et Amicitiae, De Salon, organized by Harald Schole, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2017 Build Hope, Not Walls, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX

2017 You Are Here, Wild Basin Research Center, Austin, TX

2017 Mix ‘n’ Mash, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX

2016 Not For Profit, Bolm Studios Gallery, Austin, TX

Public Art Projects

Community Engagement

Related Professional Work

Selected Press and Media

2025 1938+, mixed-media public art sculpture, Austin Central Fire Station #1, Austin, TX

2022 Seaming Heritage, Shadowing Futures, experiential sculpture, United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt

2003 CONTAINER, mixed media sculpture, Nuweiba, Egypt

2020- City-Building Exercise | workshops designed to engage young communities
present Locations: Provincetown IB Schools, Provincetown, MA; Red Wing High School, Red Wing, MN; Project Row
Houses Community Gallery, Houston, TX; Corsicana High School, Corsicana, TX; McColl Center for Art and Innovation,
Charlotte, NC (virtual)

2021 #carvershares’, Virtual Community Project, George Washington Carver Museum, Austin, TX

2020 ‘Transient’, Prizer Arts & Letters Gallery, Austin, TX

2025 Artist Talk | Forces of Production: On Materiality & Meaning in Art Making | A moderated conversation with artist Erin Morrison |
21c Hotel Museum. Bentonville, AR.

2023 Visiting Artist/Guest Lecturer | Studio Art Graduate Seminar at the University of North Texas, Elaine Pawlowicz, instructor

2022 Visiting Artist/Guest Lecturer | University of Austin, College of Fine Arts | Department of Art and Art History | Teresa Hubbard, instructor.

2022 Conference Speaker | ‘Adding Voices’ Conference | Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

2018-23 Selection Panelist/Juror | Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2023), Sustainable Art Foundation (2022), McColl Center for Art +
Innovation (2021), City of Austin Art in Public Places - Brush Square (2022), City of Austin Art in Public Places - Asian American
Resource Center (2018)

2009 Panelist | Art and Feminism: Innovative Representational Strategies | Panel Discussion with Rehab El Sadek, Zenele Muholi, Nil Yalter and
Mathilde tee Heijne | Moderator: Mirjan Westen | 7th European Feminist Research Conference, Universiteit van Utrecht

2024 Provincetown Independent | “Rehab El Sadek Sculpts a Story of Political Dislocation” | by Abraham Storer | April 10, 2024

2023 maake | Issue 15 / 2023. Featured Artists | Curated by Assembly Room, NY

2022 eNCA | “As Climate Talks Drag, Artist Shows Way to Climate Hell” | November 18, 2022

2022 Glass Tire | “Rehab El Sadek Wins Project Row Houses Southern Survey Biennial Prize” | by Jessica Fuentes | November 13, 2022

2022 Sightlines | “Rehab El Sadek’s Secret Place at the Elisabet Ney Museum” | by Courtney Thomas | June 24, 2022

2022 Places of Freedom and Containment Group. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Charlotta Kotik, 2022

2022 Artists in Res | Rehab El Sadek Interview

2022 Bemis Center | Artist-In-Residence | January 18 - April 15, 2022

2022 Performances ou fresques, l'art s'invite à la COP27 | Publié le 18/11/2022 15:23 | Mis à jour le | November 2022

2022 Sightlines | “Rehab El Sadek’s Secret Place at the Elisabet Ney Museum” | by Courtney Thomas | June 2022

2021 Glass Tire TV | Five-Minute Tours: Rehab El Sadek at Women & Their Work, Austin | Dec 15, 2021

2021 Rehab El Sadek - Pattern Language. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Curt Gettman, 2021

2021 Texas Talks Art | Rehab El Sadek with Kyle Hobratschk, Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency | July 13, 2021

2021 Artist Talk: Creating Imaginary Spaces with Rehab El Sadek | April 15, 2021

2020 Good Hart Artist Residency | Rehab El Sadek Interview | May 7, 2020

2019 Austin Chronicle | “Rehab El Sadek: Transient at Prizer Arts & Letters” | by Wayne Alan Brenner | December 13, 2019

2019 Austin Art Talk Podcast | Episode 77 - Rehab El Sadek - Transient | November 23, 2019

2019 Aether Magazine | “The Memory Palace: Rehab El Sadek at Big Medium” | June 2019

2019 Austin Chronicle | “Rehab El Sadek: The Memory Palace at Big Medium” | by Robert Faires | June 2019

2018 ATXN CityView | News Segment: City of Austin Artist-In-Residence | April 23, 2018

2017 Austin Monthly magazine | “Meet the City of Austin's First Official Artist-in-Residence” | by Sarah Thurmond | July 2017

2017 Austin Statesman | "Can an Artist Improve Austin’s Water System?” | by Elizabeth Findell | May 29, 2017

2017 Reporting Texas | “City’s First Artist in Residence Has an Unusual Assignment” | by Alvaro Céspedes | May 24, 2017

2017 KUT 90.5 FM | “Austin's Inaugural Artist-In-Residence Takes Up Her Post” | by Audrey McGlinchy | May 8, 2017

2010 Rebelle Art & Feminism | 1969-2009. Exhibition catalog. Editor: Mirjam Westen; Essays by Riet Van der Linden, Tineke Reijnders, NGoné Fall,
Mirjam Westen, Ingelies van der Meulen and others, 2010

2005 Modern Egyptian Art 1910-2003 | American University in Cairo Press, 2005, pp. 234 | Liliane Karnouk | ISBN-13: 978-9774248597

2003 Universes in Universe - Nafas | “International workshop for contemporary art in Nuweiba on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt” | by Dina Ramadan |
June 2003

2001 Cairo Modern Art in Holland. Exhibition catalog, pp. 128-137. Snoeck-Ducaju En Zoon, 2001

1998 NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art | Fall/Winter | Volume 1998, Issue 9 | Review: Rehab El Sadek at Gasworks Gallery London |
by Alessio Antoniolli, 1998

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