Gazbia Sirry

Personal data

Date of birth: 10/11/1925
Place of birth: Cairo
Date of death: 10/11/2021
Specialization: photography
Email: www.facebook.com/Gazbia-Sirry-166759625052/

school grade

- Bachelor’s degree from the Higher Institute for Girls, Department of Fine Arts, Boulaq, 1948.
Teaching license diploma in art education 1949.
- Postgraduate studies with Marcel Grumier in Paris 1951, and in Rome 1952 and Slade College, University of London 1954-1955.

membership

- Member of the Fine Artists Syndicate since its establishment in 1979 - Photography.
- Member of the Modern Art Group until it stopped in the fifties.
- Member of the Council of the Syndicate 1979-1983.
- Member of the Fine Arts Lovers Association, Cairo.
- Member of the Egyptian Diggers Association, Cairo.
- Member of the Writers and Artists Association (Cairo Atelier).
- Member of Wekalat Al-Ghoury Artists Association, Cairo.
Former member of the Fine Arts Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture, Ministry of Culture, Cairo.
- International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
- Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) in Paris.

Jobs and occupations undertaken by the artist

- Teaching in secondary schools and female teachers, 1949-1955.
- Former professor of photography at the American University 1980-1981.
Former Professor of Painting at the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University, until 1981.
- A sabbatical fellowship from the Ministry of Culture for a period of 6 years, and a fellowship from the American Huntington Hartfood Foundation, Los Angeles, 1965.
Fellowship of the German Authority for the Exchange of Professors, West Berlin, 1975.
Fulbright Fellowship and the National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington, D.C. 1993.

The places where the artist lived

- Cairo and Fayoum, all parts of the Republic from the valley, the Nile, the mountains, Paris - Rome - California - West Berlin - Beirut, most of the capitals of Europe.

Special exhibitions

1953 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art - Cairo.
1955 exhibition at the French Egyptian Cultural Center - London - England.
1959 exhibition at the Cairo Atelier Gallery.
1963 exhibition at the Manasterly Museum - Cairo.
1965 Exhibition in the Fine Arts Gallery in Bab El Louk - Ministry of Culture.
1965 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art - Alexandria.
1965 The Vincent Price Foundation exhibition in Los Angeles (Traveling in the United States of America).
1965 Exhibition in Akhenaten Gallery - Cairo.
1967 exhibition at Brinken Gallery - Stockholm - Sweden.
1968 exhibition at the Egyptian Cultural Center - Paris - France.
1968 Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall - Cairo.
1968 Exhibition at `Wahed` Gallery, Beirut - Lebanon.
1969, an exhibition at the Town Hall Hall, Menguel Gallery (Nancy), France.
1970 exhibition at Galerie Lapalette Bleu - Paris - France.
1970, an exhibition at the German Cultural Center (Goethe), Cairo.
1970 exhibition at Seidler Gallery - London - England.
1971 Exhibition at Marcel Bernheim Gallery - Paris - France.
1971 Exhibition in the German Cultural Center (Goethe) Gallery, Cairo.
1972 - Exhibition in the Cultural Center for Foreign Diplomats Hall, Ministry of Culture - Cairo.
- 1972, an exhibition in the Great Hall of Dallas - Bucharest - Romania.
1973 Exhibition in Akhenaten Gallery - Cairo.
1973 An exhibition at the Goethe Center Gallery in the Cultural Center of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1973 Exhibition (Watercolors), Cairo.
- 1973, an exhibition at the Unitarian Church Hall - Toronto - Canada.
1973 Exhibition at the Art Center Gallery - Ottawa - Canada.
1973 - Exhibition at the Art Center Gallery, Montreal - Canada.
1974, an exhibition at the Middle East Institute Gallery - Washington - USA.
- 1974, an exhibition at the University of Los Angeles Gallery - USA.
- 1974 San Francisco Exhibition - USA.
- 1975 Hall of the German Cultural Institute (Goethe), Cairo.
1976 Exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art - West Berlin.
1976 exhibition at the German Cultural Institute (Goethe) Gallery, Cairo.
1977 exhibition at the Egyptian Cultural Center - Paris.
1977 - Exhibition in the German Cultural Center (Goethe) Gallery, Cairo.
1978 exhibition at the German Cultural Center Gallery - Goethe - Alexandria.
1978 exhibition at Metcal Gallery - Abidjan - Ivory Coast.
1979 exhibition at the German Cultural Center Gallery - Goethe - Cairo
1980, an exhibition at a private gallery - Madame Aida Sadek - Cairo.
1980 exhibition at the Egyptian Academy Gallery - Rome - Italy.
1980 - Exhibition in the German Cultural Center (Goethe) Gallery, Cairo.
1982 exhibition in the hall of the German Goethe Institute, Cairo.
1983, an exhibition at Madame Mervat Saud's private gallery, Al-Ajami, Alexandria.
- 1983 exhibition at Sultan Gallery - Kuwait.
1984 Gallery Terre de Marais - Paris - France.
1985 Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall (1) Ministry of Culture (comprehensive exhibition 1984-51) - Cairo.
1986 Exhibition at Al-Madina Gallery - Tunis, Republic of Tunisia.
1987 Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall (1), Ministry of Culture - Cairo.
1988 exhibition at Al-Mashrabia Gallery - Cairo.
1996 exhibition at the Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation (Foreign Diplomats Hall).
1996 Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall (1), (4) Cairo.
1994 Exhibition at the Arts Complex in Zamalek.
1997 Shonat Al-Fan Exhibition in Ajami - Alexandria.
- 1998 exhibition in Akhenaten Gallery, Zamalek.
1999 - Exhibition at the Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation (Foreign Diplomats Hall).
- 2000 exhibition at the Opera.
- 2000 Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall.
- 2000, an exhibition at the Old Cataract Hotel - Aswan.
2000 Exhibition (Watercolors) at the Egyptian Center for International Cultural Cooperation (Foreign Diplomats Hall).
2002 Exhibition at Safar Khan Gallery
- 2004, an exhibition entitled (Time and Place 2002-2003), Zamalek Art Gallery, Zamalek.
- 2006 Exhibition in (Al-Zamalek Art Gallery), Zamalek.
- 2008 Exhibition (Fantasia of Life) Zamalek Art Hall -