Jamal Bassiouni
Jamal Bassiouni (b. 1993, Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation. His work examines the relationship between history, memory, and cultural identity, with particular attention to the ways inherited visual languages continue to inhabit and inform the present.
Drawing from ancient Egyptian belief systems, symbols, and forms, Bassiouni approaches heritage not as a fixed historical reference, but as a living visual vocabulary open to reinterpretation. Across his practice, elements drawn from the past are displaced from their original contexts and rearticulated through contemporary materials and modes of representation, creating a dialogue between archaeological memory and present-day experience.
Working across oil painting, metal, fiberglass, clay, and mixed media, Bassiouni allows material and form to shift according to the conceptual demands of each work. This movement between two- and three-dimensional practices enables him to explore how cultural memory is carried through objects, images, and material traces, while questioning the boundaries between the historical artifact and the contemporary artwork.
Bassiouni received his BFA in 2016 and MFA in Oil Painting in 2019 from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Egypt and internationally, with presentations in Cairo, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Johannesburg, Milan, and France. Recent participations include FNB Art Joburg (2025), A Tale of Two Cities in Milan (2025), World of Mirrors in Abu Dhabi (2024), and Cairo Gem and Investec Art Fair (2026).
Bassiouni lives and works between Alexandria and Cairo. His practice continues to consider how histories survive beyond their original moment through symbols, materials, and collective memory and how these inherited forms can be reconfigured to speak from within the contemporary present.
