Heba Y. Amin

BIOGRAPHY

Artist Heba Y. Amin (b. 1980, Cairo) engages with political themes and archival history, using mixed-media including film, photography, performance and installation. Her artistic research takes a speculative, often satirical, approach to challenging narratives of conquest and control.

Amin is Professor of Digital and Time-Based art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, co-founder of Black Athena Collective, curator of visual art for MIZNA journal, and currently sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Digital War. She was awarded the 2022 Nordhorn City art prize (Germany), the 2020 Sussmann Artist Award for artists committed to the ideals of democracy and antifascism (Austria), and the 2019 Field of Vision Fellowship (NYC). Amin’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including The Mosaic Rooms, London (2021), Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam (2020), Quai Branly Museum, Paris (2020), MAXXI Museum, Rome (2018), Liverpool Biennial (2021), 10th Berlin Biennale (2018), 15th Istanbul Biennale (2017), and 12th Dak’Art Biennale (2016), to name a few. Her publication, Heba Y. Amin: The General’s Stork (ed. Anthony Downey) was published by Sternberg Press in 2020 and her works and interventions have been covered by The New York Times, The Guardian, the Intercept, and BBC among others. Furthermore, Amin is one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series “Homeland” which received worldwide media attention.

Amin lives in Berlin.