Maher Dawoud

Maher Dawoud is an Egyptian artist born and raised in Cairo. An artist since childhood, Maher always believed in the power of visual impressions to deliver his ideas.
In 2005, he received his BFA from the Mural Painting Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University. It was during his final two years as a student that he began experimenting with different materials, all the while searching for a more interesting surface to touch and feel. At the young age of 26, and after teaching at the Mural Painting Department for a few years, he acquired his MFA from the same university under the thesis title The Artistic Values of the Linear Composition in German Coloured Glass. While continuing to teach and experiment with glass and mosaics, he obtained his PhD in 2013 from the same faculty with the thesis The Employment of Mosaics in Installation Art: analytical and Comparative Study. Maher was recently nominated to represent Egypt at the 56th International Venice Biennale in May 2015. The project he designed with two other Egyptian colleagues named CAN YOU SEE? Was a large mosaic construction of the work “Peace’, During the opening week of the biennale, the Egyptian pavilion was widely popular and successfully attracted many visitors.

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