Osama Dawod

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Born: Ismailia
Lives: Cairo

Education
MFA candidate, Major Photography, 2009
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California, USA

Bachelor of Fine Arts, received May 2003
Graphic and Printed Design major, 1998 - 2003
School of Fine Arts, University of Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Rosetta', Artellewa Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2005 'Photography', Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

Group Exhibitions
2008 'Archival Practice' Swell Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco, USA
2008 'East of the West', SomArts, San Francisco, USA
2007 'malash - Kairo', Meinblau, Berlin, Germany
2007 'Moving Walls', Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
2007 'face in Cairo', American University in Cairo, Egypt
2007 'Africa=Hot', Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
2007 'Africa=Hot' , by World Press Photo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 'Cairo - Urban ReViews', ifa, gtz, Goethe inst., Townhouse Gallery, Cairo
2006 'Art in Public Space', Images of The Middle East, Denmark
2006 Patan Durbar Square, Sutra Workshops, Kathmandu, Nepal
2006 'Outskirts; Non-Place; Urban Areas', CiC, Cairo, Egypt
2005 'PhotoCairo3', Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2004 ‘WorkStudy’ Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine, USA
2003 ‘Open Studio’, PhotoCairo 2003, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2003 ‘Obligatory Direction’, Cordoba art Gallery, Mohandessien, Cairo, Egypt
2003 15th Youth Salon, Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House, Cairo, Egypt
2002 4th Nile Salon for Photography, Palace of Arts, Cairo Opera House, Cairo, Egypt


Bibliography
2005 Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Daily Star, Friday, February 18, 2005
2005 Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Flash Art, March-April 2005, No. 241

Grants/Awards
2007 MFA Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute
2006 Triangle Arts Trust, Workshop, Nepal
2004 Workshop grant, Ford Foundation
2004 Workshop/flight grant, Sean Kernan

Projects
Present 'Awesome Republic', It's complicated.
2007 Art Goes Heiligendam, Curated by Adrienne Goehler, Rostock/Heiligendam, Germany
2006 'Climate Change', World Press Photo (WPPH)
2005-2006 'Images of the Middle East', DCCD, Copenhagen, Denmark

Publications
2007 "The Rock Critic", first edition - limited