IMAN ISSA
1979 born in Cairo, EGY
lives and works in Berlin, GER and Vienna, AT
EDUCATION
2005 – 2007 MFA, Columbia University, New York, USA
1996 – 2001
BFA, American University in Cairo, EGY
1998 – 1999 One year Study Abroad Fellowship, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
TEACHING
Since 2020 Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria (Professor)
Since 2014 The Home Workspace Program, Beirut, Lebanon (Visiting Professor and member of Curriculum Committee)
2020 Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany (Visiting Artist)
Berlin Program for Artists, Berlin, Germany (Mentor)
2019 Hochshule für Künste, Bremen, Germany (Visiting Professor)
2018 Academie Libanaise Des Beaux-Arts, Beirut, Lebanon (Visiting Artist)
2017 ICP Bard MFA, New York, USA (Visiting Professor)
2012 – 2017 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA (Adjunct Professor)
2016 Columbia University, New York, USA (Visiting Artist)
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA (Visiting Artist)
School of Visual Arts, New York, USA (Visiting Artist)
2015 Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA (Visiting Professor)
2014 University of Chicago, Chicago, USA (Visiting Artist)
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA (Visiting Artist)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA (Visiting Artist)
2012 Serving Library Seminar with Piet Zwart Institute and HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts students,
Antwerp, Belgium
University of Western Ontario, Canada (Visiting Artist)
2006/07 Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, USA (Lecturer)
GRANTS
2024 Ernst-Rietschel-Kunstpreis for Sculpture
2019 The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grant
2017 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise
DAAD Artist in Residence
2016 Headlands Artist in Residence
2015 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
21er Haus Belvedere Artist in Residence
2013 Abraaj Group Art Prize
2012 HNF-MACBA Award for Contemporary Art
2010 Young Arab Theatre Fund Production Grant
Accented Residency, Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul, TUR
AIR Antwerpen Residency, Antwerp, BEL
2009 The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Grant
2005 Martin Birnbaum Fellowship Award
SOLO EXHITBITION SELECTIONS
2025 Hamburger Kunsthalle, GER
A Game, or So You Think, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Das Spiel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, GER
2024 Photograph—(Un)Like (M)Any Other(s), Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, GER
2022 Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT
Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Rodeo, London, UK
Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Rodeo, Piraeus, GRC
2020 Proxies, with a Life of Their Own, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AT
Carlier Gebauer, Madrid, ESP
2019 Surrogates, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
Book of Facts, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, GER
2018 Material for 2018, Spike Island, Bristol, GB
2017 Heritage Studies, Rodeo, London, GB
Material, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, GER
2016 Heritage Studies, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, GER
Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PRT
2015 Material, 21er Haus, Vienna, AT
Heritage Studies, MACBA, Barcelona, ESP
Parables, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, GB-SCT
Heritage Studies, Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA
Lexicon, Rodeo, London, GB
2013 Thirty-three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2012 Material, Mercer Union, Toronto, CAN
2011 Material, Rodeo, Istanbul, TUR
Thirty-three Stories about Reasonable Characters in Familiar Places, SculptureCenter, New York, USA
2010 Triptychs. Past Present Future, Artissima 17, Turin, IT
Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, GER
2008 Making Places, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, EGY
2003 Proposal for a Crystal Building, Gezira Arts Center, Cairo, EGY
2002 Lights, Gezira Arts Center, Cairo, EGY
