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Born in 1975, London
Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt


Solo Exhibitions

2010
Kunst Halle St Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Homeworks Forum, Beirut, Lebanon.

2008
Lust, Uqbar, Berlin, Germany.

2007
KOMPRESSOR, Le Plateau / Festival d’Automne Paris, France.

2006
KOMPRESSOR, Gasworks, London, U.K.

2005
The Hidden Location, A Space Gallery / Images Festival, Toronto, Canada.
Hassan Khan, Ursula Blicke, videolounge, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria.

2004
Directtransmission an audio-visual performance, with Mahmoud Refat, KBB, Barcelona, Spain.
Hassan Khan, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.

2003
17 and in AUC, A performative action, 2, Maarouf Street and an exhibition at Falaki Gallery, New Falaki Campus, AUC, Cairo, Egypt.

2001
Reading the Surface: 100 portraits, 6 locations and 25 Questions, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.

1999
I am a hero / you are a hero, Gezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt.


Collective Exhibitions

2010
Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain.
The Ulysses’ Fascination _ Travels Without Frontiers, MEIAC - _Museo Extremeño y Ibero-Americano de Arte Contemporâneo, Badajoz, Spain.

2009
The Malady of Writing, MACBA, The Museu d’Art Contemporani De Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Bidoun Library, Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Project Room, Paris Photo, Paris, France.
Frontiera, Film, Visual Arts & Narratives Festival, Urban Center, Bergamo, Italy.
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK.

2008
PhotoCairo4: The Long Shortcut, Cairo, Egypt.
If we can’t get it together – Artists rethinking the (mal)function of communities, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
3rd Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan.
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea.
REVOLUTIONS - Selected Works from the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla – San Diego, U.S.A.
Repeat all, MIS (Museu da imagem e do som), Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Transmediale.08, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Lapdogs of the Bourgoisie, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
Decoder- selections from Contour Biennale, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.

2007
What’s happening now ?, Palace of Arts, Cairo, Egypt.
The FM Ferry Experiment, mobile radio project, Staten Island ferry, New York, U.S.A.
Pausa (infiltration through television), television side project to Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio Mx”, Mexico.
Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art, Mechelen, Belgium.
Heterotopias, First Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Silence. Listen the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
The Backroom, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France.
Out of Place, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon.
Repeat all, MATUCAN100, Santiago de Chile, Chili.
Un tiro al cielo, OPA - Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2006
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie, Gasworks, London, U.K.
Repeat all, Toit du Monde, Vevey, Switzerland.
Une vision du monde, La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France.
Zones of Contact, Sydney Biennial, Australia.
Deep Freeze, Mehr (Midtown), New York, U.S.A.
2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain.
Open Studio, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.

2005
The Pantagruel Syndrome, T1 - Turin Triennal Threemuseums, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea;
GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino; Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
FAMILY, You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era, ACAF/ Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum-
Alexandria –Egypt.
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
e-flux video rental (Touring show), Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany.
Four by Four, Artists Space, New York, U.S.A.
Desvelar lo Invisible-videocreaciones contemporaneas, Sala de exposiciones Alcala, Madrid, Spain.

2004
Near the Near East, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in public spaces, Frankfurt, Germany.
Going Public ‘04, Amaze Cultural Lab, Modena, Italy.
Mediterraneans, Macro Museum, Roma, Italy.
La Ciudad Collage, Centro de exposicones, Benalmadena, Malaga, Spain.

2003
Contemporary Arab Representations: Cairo; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands & Fundacio Antonie Tapies, Barcelona, Spain.
Through the Eye of a Needle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Rendez-vous, Galerie des terreaux, Lyon, France.
Poetic Justice, 8th Istanbul Biennal, Turkey.
Multitudes – Solitudes, Museion – Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy.
Change of values, Espai d’art contemporani de Castello, Castellon, Spain.

2002
INTER.PLAY, curated by Silvia Karman Cubina and Patrick Charpenel, Miami, U.S.A.
Haunted by Detail, De Appel Foundation Amsterdam, November, The Netherlands.
Géographies #2, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Trottoirs/Sidewalks, Mois de la Photo, Galerie Chantal Crousel à la Poste du Louvre, Paris, France.
To the man masturbating in the toilet of Charles de Gaulle airport, Present Future, Artissima, Torino, Italy.

2001
Square Circle, Daraj El Fann, Beirut, Lebanon.

2000
Re/lapse, L’Art dans le monde, Paris, France.

1997
Do you want to fight?- People are a hidden illness, Video Visions Cairo II, El Hanager Art Center, Cairo, Egypt.


Performances & Lectures

2009
New Roads, New Urban Conditions, MUSAC, Museo de Arte contempora neo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain.
Incidence, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris.
Incidence, Vevey Theatre, Vevey, Switzerland.
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Al Wahda Al Kabeera / The Big One, 100live electronic music festival 2009, Rawabit Theater, Cairo, Egypt.
Mesmeric-EP, 1st Sakia Electronic Music Festival, Cairo, Egypt.

2008
figure and ground live at the HAU 3 theatre, Berlin, Germany.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Khoj Live Festival, Delhi, India.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Salon Bruit, Berlin, Germany.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Cinema Gwangju at the opening of the Gwangju Biennale, Korea.
Incidence - live music and video concert, Red Brick Warehouse at the opening of Yokohama Triennale, Japan.
Incidence - live music and video concert, as part of 100 LIVE 2 in Cairo, Alexandria and Amman.
I am not what I am, Homeworks IV, Beirut, Lebanon.
If we can’t get it together, Symposium/We, Ourselves and Us, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, U.S.A.

2007
tabla dubb, Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), Mounira, Egypt.
Incidence, Point Ephémère / Festival d’Automne, Paris, France.
Yokomono White, Hassan Khan live with Staalplat Soundsystem, Podewil, Berlin, Germany.
Lust, 100 LIVE - the Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt.
In Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, at the Global Art Forum, 1st Gulf Art Fair, Dubai, UAE.

2006
figure and ground (2), Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum, Alexandria, Egypt.
a lecture that tries to speak of images but ends up being concerned with something else, Camden Arts Centre, London, U.K.
figure and ground 18 July, Resonance FM Clear Spot.
tabla dubb , Whitechapel Gallery, London & Vevey, Switzerland.
Nine Notes on Source Process And Product, part of the exhibition FAMILY, You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post Everything Era, Berne, Switzerland.

2005
STUDIO INCIDENT No. 1 – five days of concerts, performances, installations and videos by Adham Hafez, Ahmed
el Attar, Bikya, Hassan Khan / Mahmoud Refat, Wael Shawky, Zeinab Khalifa at Hassan Khan’s studio.
a lecture that tries to speak of images but ends up being concerned with something else (Photo Cairo Festival,
Studio Emad El Din,)
I am Not What I am (Creative Voices Series), English and Comparative Literature Department, American University, Cairo, Egypt.

2004
tabla dubb :
- Kunsten Festival, Brussels, Belgium.
- “Mediterraneans”, Macro Museum, Roma, Italy.

2003
tabla dubb :
- VIDEOBRASIL, SESC, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
- Espace d’art contemporani, Castello, Italy.
- Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey.
- the Lydmar hotel, Stockholm, Sweden.

2002
tabla dubb, audio-visual performance premiered at “Home Works: A forum on a cultural practice in the region,” Beirut, Lebanon.

2001
What is the difference between the cell and the portrait?, video talk premiered November, Beirut, Lebanon.