Al-Muraikhi was born in Aswan in 1965, where his teachers discovered his talent early in the primary stage. During the preparatory stage, while his peers worked in agricultural work in the summer, he worked on drawing walls with the only engraver in their village, where the walls of houses were painted during the wedding and Hajj seasons, which gave him the ability to color and decorate. Therefore, his first personal exhibition was in 1995, entitled “Memory of the Villager.”
Al-Muraikhi depicted, in an expressive way, the customs and traditions of his village in Upper Egypt during this exhibition. In the same year, he joined to work as a director on Egyptian television, where he won the Radio and Television Festival Award for a film dealing with Hajj fees in southern Egypt.
In 2004, he presented his second personal exhibition, entitled “Mountain Houses,” about the aesthetics of rural construction and the role of women in beautifying construction in Naga El Shedda, north of Aswan. For a film with the same title, he won the Arab Media Festival Award in 2006.
He was also assigned, through the Governor of Aswan, to create a beautification plan for the same area, which was implemented during 2007 through its residents and women, to translate the role of art in society.
After that, he held joint exhibitions with Aswan artists on a regular basis, then private exhibitions at Art Corner Gallery and Note Gallery in Zamalek, and an exhibition at the first international Art Fair in Egypt.
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