Iman Issa

Iman Issa
Iman Issa receives HNB-MACBA Award
Born	1979
Nationality	Egyptian
Known for	Multidisciplinary art (installations, video, photography, sculpture)
Website	http://imanissa.com/

Iman Issa is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large.

Issa has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her most notable shows include the solo exhibition, Iman Issa: Heritage Studies at MACBA, Barcelona, Iman Issa: Heritage Studiesat the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), and Material at Rodeo, Istanbul. Her videography has been featured at the Transmediale, Berlin, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Tate Modern, London, Spacex, Exeter, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and Bidoun Artists' Cinema.

She lectures at the New School and is currently a part-time professor at the Cooper Union's School of Arts. Issa lives and works between Cairo and New York City.

Iman Issa was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1979. In 2001, she completed her bachelor's degree at the American University in Cairo. She initially studied philosophy and political science, and then continued to pursue photography when the university launched a visual arts program. Issa moved to New York in 2005, and completed her MFA at Columbia University two years later.