Background
Amal Kenawy was born in 1974 in Cairo, Egypt.
Amal Kenawy was born in 1974 in Cairo, Egypt.
She showed interest in art of film and fashion design from an early age, she studied film and fashion design at Egypt’s Cinema Institute and received an undergraduate degree in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University in Egypt in 1999.
The collaboration resulted in heaps of artworks ranging from sculptures, installations and videos that gained several awards and international recognition, including United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Grand Prize at the International Cairo Biennale. Kenawy"s solo work commended on more use of an intimate approach, she uses her own body alongside a representations of fragile materials, animals and found objects to express mental and physical pain and addressed themes that represented important moments in her life such as birth, marriage, death, dreams, and memory. Amal Kenawy died on August 19, 2012 at the age of 38 suffering from leukemia.
2002 Frozen Memory, video,Photograph and Sculpture Installation.
1998 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Grand Prize at the 7th Cairo International Biennale. 1998 The AICA commission (Marseilles Art Studios), France. 2003 Special mention of international Ismailia festival for documentary and Short films, Egypt. 2004 Grant of Pro-Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Artists residency, Aarau /Switzerland. 2004 The State National Prize for Art, Science, Literature, (for using Video as Visual medium, Egypt. 2005 The 23rd Alexandria Biennial Golden Prize. 2005 The global crossings prize, Leonardo International society for the arts, sciences and technology, Los Angeles, United States of America. 2006 Dakar Biennale award. 2006 The 12th Cairo International Biennale grand prize. 2010 The Sharjah International Biennial award.
