Mahmoud Menaysy Sculptor and painter E-mail: Links: http://www.janetradyfineart.com Birth date: 16/3/1970 Name: Mahmoud Family name: Abdelhamid Artist name: Mahmoud Menaysy Place of birth: Alexandria – Egypt Languag...

Mahmoud Menaysy Sculptor and painter E-mail: Links: http://www.janetradyfineart.com Birth date: 16/3/1970 Name: Mahmoud Family name: Abdelhamid Artist name: Mahmoud Menaysy Place of birth: Alexandria – Egypt Languages: Italian, English, Arabic Jobs • Director of Public Art Administration and Art Curator (THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR URBAN HARMONY – EGYPT) • Director of Visual Art Administration (THE GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF CULTURE PALACES – EGYPT) Member of the Syndicate of Fine Artists in Egypt. Member of Alexandria and Cairo Atelier in Egypt. Independent visual artist, expressing himself through painting, sculpture, installations and video art "In few years Mahmoud Menaysy was able to unleash his deep powerful art character submitting it to experience the Modern Art. In the last years, this young talented artist introduced important answers to art perplexes. For instance how to tackle the contradiction thesis and the importance of shock and contrast. If he tackles woman’s body, he will incarnate the ethereal treasure that carry the space to express the entire existence of universe, thus it would be the cold deaf material that explodes to protest against all solid, cold, soft, thick, soulless, and mindless. Even though, Menaysy still faithful to the system and method, even his keen on the systematic aestheticism margined his original theory of omission and protest, settle it among shock and contrast factors to unveil the artificial consumed stereotyped". Ahmed Fouad Selim 1998 Projects • Curator & Commissioner & the General Coordinator of the Project ( Exchange modern and contemporary art ) in Egypt . • Curator & Commissioner & the General Coordinator of the Project ( Utopia ) in Egypt Scholarship . Sabbatical leave of the Ministry of Culture, 1996/2005. Solo shows . Twenty personal exhibitions - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 1992. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 1994. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 1996. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 1997. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 2000. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 2005. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 2006. - Exhibitions on the Cairo Atelier Gallery - Egypt. 2007. - German cultural Center in Alexandria - Goethe Inistitutt –1993. - Russian Cultural Center in Alexandria 1994. - Alexandria Museum of Fine Arts in February 1995. - Alexandria Atelier in Egypt 1995. - Spanish Cultural Center in Alexandria in March 1997. - Zamalek Arts Complex in March 1998. - Aljazira Center for Arts, Zamalek, Cairo – Egypt. 2002. - Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum in Cairo – Egypt. 2006. - Center of Arts, Zamalek (Akhnaton Gallery) in Cairo – Egypt. 2004 (Stars Youth Salon). - Extra Gallery, Zamalek in Cairo – Egypt. 2009 and 2010. National Group Exhibitions: . The most important exhibitions in Egypt from 1990 until 2007. International Exhibitions & Workshop: . The 7th Cairo International Biennale, 1998. . The 21st Alexandria International Biennale of Mediterranean Countries, 2001. . Al-Shouf International Art Symposium in Lebanon, 2001. . 1st Sodic International Sculpture Symposium in Egypt, 2011. Local and international Who's Who . Youth Salon Encyclopedia, First Edition, edited by Dr. Sobhy el-Sharoony, 1994, Sector of Fine Arts Publications. . Youth Salon Encyclopedia, Second Edition, edited by critic Mohammed Hamza, Sector of Fine Arts Publications, 2002. Local recognition prize of the international biennale of Alexandria 2001 Jury prize for painting, the 7th Youth Salon, 1995. Second prize for drawing, the 8th Youth Salon, 1996. Prize for drawing, Alexandria Youth Salon, 1997. Top prize for installation, the 9th Youth Salon, 1997 Prize of the 21st Alexandria International Biennale of Mediterranean Countries, 2001, Encouraging prize, the 14th Youth Salon, 2002. Private collection Among collections of art lovers in Egypt, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Sweden, South Africa, U.S.A, and Kuwait Sweden,. State collection The Egyptian Modern Art Museum & The Ministry of Culture of Egypt & Cultural Development Fund of Egypt, Swedish Royal palace in Stockholm (the princess of the hearts Victoria)