Youssef Nabil
Solo Exhibitions:

2007 Sleep in my arms, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2007
Portraits Self Portraits, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.
2005 Youssef Nabil Portraits, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.
2005 Realities to Dreams, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2003 Pour un Moment d'Éternité, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2002 Youssef Nabil: Photo Cairo, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2001 Obsesiones, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
2001 Rétrospective, Centre Culturel Français, Alexandria, Egypt.
2001 Youssef Nabil, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2000 Secret Side, Al Nitak Festival of Visual Arts, Cairo-Berlin Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.
1999 Premiere, Cairo-Berlin Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.

Group Exhibitions:

2008 Far From Home, North Carolina Museum of Art NCMA, North Carolina, U.S.A.
2008 Last of the Dictionary Men, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, U.K.
2008 Disguise, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2008 Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, Musée National d'Art Moderne et Contemporain MNAMC, Alger, Algeria.
2008 Perfect Lovers, Art Extra, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2007 Gegenwart aus Jahrtausenden, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Ägypten, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany.
2007 Dialogues Méditerranéens, Saint-Tropez, France.
2006 Arabiske Blikke, GL Strand Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2006 Word into Art, The British Museum, London, U.K.
2006 Images of the Middle East, Danish Center for Culture and Development, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2006 19 miradas. Fotógrafos árabes contemporáneos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain.
2005 Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France.
2005 Nazar, Photographs from the Arab World, The Aperture Foundation Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2005 L'Égypte, Saline Royale d'Arc et Senans, France.
2005 Arab Eyes, FotoFest Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
2004 Nazar: Noorderlicht, The Fries Museum, Leeuwaarden, The Netherlands.
2004 Rites sacrés, Rites profanes: Zeitgenossiche Afrikanische Fotographie, Kornhausforum, Bern, Switzerland.
2004 Staged Realities: Exposing the Soul in African Photography 1870-2004, Michael Stevenson Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
2004 Ŕ Bamako, Le Caire, La FNAC, Paris, France.
2004 Bamako 03: Contemporary African Photography, Centre de Cultura Contemporŕnia de Barcelona MACBA, Barcelona, Spain.
2003 Rites sacrés, Rites profanes, Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali.
Awards:

2003 The Seydou Keita Prize for Portraiture, Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, Bamako, Mali.

Residencies:

2003 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

Other Experiences:

1997-1998 Assistant Photographer to Mario Testino, Paris, France.
1992-1993 Assistant Photographer to David Lachapelle, New York, U.S.A.
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