Lives and works in New York, NY, United States

Born in Cairo, Egypt

BFA in Painting, Villa Arson, Nice, France

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, United States

Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris, France

Awarded the UNESCO Prize, Venice Biennial, Italy

Artist in Residency at Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States
Honoured with the African Art Award of The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., United States

Artist in Residency at Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico

Esto Nos Salvará, Galeria Ana Serratosa, Valencia, Spain
Paravent Girls, Tina Kim Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
QR Codes Revisited–New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
QR Codes Revisited–London, Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Women's Qualities, Now + There - Lot Lab, Charlestown, MA, USA

Ghada Amer – A Retrospective, MUCEM, Museums of Marseille-Centre de la Vieille Charité, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France
All Oppression Creates a State of War, garden sculpture for Biennal de Pensament, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Paravent Girls, Tina Kim Gallery, Seoul, Korea
My Body, My Choice, Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Hoy el 70% de los pobres en el mundo son mujeres [70% of the Poor in the World are Women], Museu de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, León, Mexico
Cactus Painting, Musée d’art naïf, Biennale de Nice, Nice, France

The Women I Know Part II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, United States

The Women I Know, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
In Black and White, Goodman Gallery, London, England
Hoy el 70% de los Pobres en el Mundo son Mujeres, MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Did You Ever Think There Would Come a Time, Goodman Gallery, London, England

Ceramics, Knots, Thoughts, Scraps, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, United States
Dark Continent, CCOD - Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France
Ghada Amer, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States
Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh: Love Is a Difficult Blue, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Déesse Terre, Jane Hartsooka Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY, United States

Ghada Amer, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany

Earth. Love. Fire, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai

Rainbow Girls, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States

Référence à Elle, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

The Other I, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY, United States
Ghada Amer, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada

100 Words of Love, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States
No Romance, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Color Misbehavior, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States

"Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off Limits", Pace Prints, New York, NY, United States

Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings, Tina Kim Fine Arts, New York, NY, United States
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: A New Collaboration on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Love Has No End, Elisabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, United States

Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Another Spring, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan, Italy
Ghada Amer, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy

Breathe Into Me, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, United States

Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, United States
Ghada Amer, curated by Teresa Millet, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Forefront 45, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

Gagosian Gallery, London, England
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Encyclopedia of Pleasure", Deitch Projects, New York, NY, United States
"Reading Between the Threads", Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany and Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden

"Drawings", Anadil Gallery, Jerusalem
"Intimate Confessions", Deitch Projects, New York, NY, United States; traveled to Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
"Encyclopedia of Pleasure", Centre Culturel Contemporain, Tours, France

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, United States

Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, United States

Centre Jules Verne, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France

Galerie Météo, Paris, France

Hôpital Éphémère, Paris, France

Paradojas Urbanas, Las Artes de Monterrey at Festival Internacional Santa Lucía, Monterrey, Mexico
Love Grave, H3H Biennale of Oosterhout, Netherlands
Love, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC, USA
One that includes myth, Goodman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Reigning Queens: Modern and Contemporary Representations of Women, Power, and Religion, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA

I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa, Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art
Cactus Painting, Biennale de Nice, Nice, France
Fragile Crossing, Marianne boesky Gallery, New York City, USA

Breaking the Monument (Images of Resistance), CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte Contemporânea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Abstraction and Calligraphy − Towards a Universal Language, Louvre Museum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Desert X, Palm Springs, CA, United States
Experience & Expression, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, United States

Heroines of Abstract Expressionism and FEM, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, CT, United States
Some Day is Now: Women, Art & Social Change, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, United States
Sculpturally Distanced, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO, United States
Did you ever think there would come a time?, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

An Instant Before the World, Rabat Biennale, Rabat, Morocco
All Things Being Equal, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Le Grand Monnayage, Melle Biennial, Melle, France
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Center, Nashville, TN, United States
Half the Picture: a Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, United States
Ways of Seeing, New York University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, United States
Une Nouvelle Humanité, Dakar Biennial, Dakar, Senegal
Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, United States
Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, United States

Visionary Viewpoints of Africa's Arts, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States
"Eternal Light: Something Old, Something New", Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
"In Rebellion: Female Narratives in the Arab World", IVAM - Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
"Ways of Seeing", ARTER – Space for Art, Istanbul, Turkey
"Entangled: Threads & Making", Turner Contemporary, London, England
"Third Space – Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art", Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, United States

"The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men", Cheim & Read, New York, NY, United States

"You Love Me You Love Me Not", Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal
"Le Fil Rouge", Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany
"The Worlds Turned Upside Down: Contemporary Art and Folk Cultures", European Capital of Culture, Mons, Brussels

"Draw: Mapping Madness", Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
"Killer Heels", Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, United States
"Songs of Loss and Songs of Love", Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea
"The Divine Comedy", MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
"Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection", Minaret Al Saadiyat Culture Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

"Earth Matters", National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., United States

"Le Corps Découvert", Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

"Told, Untold, Retold", Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, United Arab Emirates

"Against Exclusion", Moscow Biennial, Garage Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
"Elles@centrepompidou", Centre Pompidou, Paris France

"Prospects 1", Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, United States

"Check Lists Luanda Pop", African Pavillon, Arsenale, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Global Feminisms", Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; traveled to Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States
"An Indigestible Dessert", Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy (collaboration with Reza Farkhondeh)

"Without Boundary", MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States
"Zones of Contact", Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia

"Centre of Gravity", Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
"Here Comes the Sun", Magasin 3 - Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
"Always a Little Further", Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

"Africa Remix", Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; traveled to Hayward Gallery, London, England; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan and Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden
"Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

"Inscribing Meanings: African Arts of Communication", National Museum of African Art, Smithonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States
"Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora", Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY, United States; traveled to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, United States; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI, United States; City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland; Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, United States

"The Short Century", Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; traveled to Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, United States and MOMA PS1, New York, NY, United States

"Greater New York: New Art in New York Now", MOMA PS1, New York, NY, United States
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States
"Man and Space", Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
"Partage d’Exotismes", Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France

"Aperto Over All", Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Looking for a Place", Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM, United States

"Loose Threads", Serpentine Gallery, London, England
"Echolot", Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
"L’Envers du Décor, Dimensions Décoratives dans l’Art du XXème Siècle", Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

"Vraiment Féminisme et Art" , Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
"Alternating Currents", Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa

"Miniatures", Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt
"The Sense of Order", Moderne Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pittura/Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Orient/ation, the Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World", Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

Arab Museum of Modern Art (MATHAF), Qatar Museum Authority Doha, Qatar Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, United States
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, United States
CCOD - Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI, United States
EMST, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Italy
FNAC - Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
LAM - Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut, Lille, France
Leeum - Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Mathaf - Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Monsoon Art Collection, London, England
MUCEM, Marseille, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de Céret, Céret, France
Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, NY, United States
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, United States
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, United States
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Try-me, Richmond, VA, United States
Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey