Youssef Nabil

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Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2012 Youssef Nabil, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France.
2011 You Never Left, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France.
2010 Youssef Nabil, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2010 I Live Within You, Savannah College of Art and Design-SCAD, Savannah, U.S.A.
2009 Youssef Nabil, GALERIST, Istanbul, Turkey.
2009 I Live Within You, Savannah College of Art and Design-SCAD, Atlanta, U.S.A.
2009 I Won't Let you Die, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy.
2009 I Will Go to Paradise, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.
2009 Youssef Nabil, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2008 CINEMA, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
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 Realities to Dreams, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
2003 Pour un Moment d'Éternité, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France.
2001 Obsesiones, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
2001 Youssef Nabil, Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt.
1999 Premiere, Cairo-Berlin Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011 Facing Mirrors, Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece.
2011 Of Women’s Modesty and Anger, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium.
2010 Told, Untold, Retold, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.
2010 Portraits, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium.
2009 Unconditional Love, The Venice Biennale - 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy.
2009 ARABESQUE, Arts of The Arab World, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, U.S.A.
2008 Far From Home, North Carolina Museum of Art NCMA, North Carolina, U.S.A.
2008 Portraits II, Galeria Leme, Săo Paulo, Brazil.
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 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.

Monographs:

2008 I Won't Let you Die, Youssef Nabil - Hatje Cantz
2007 Sleep in my arms, Youssef Nabil - Autograph & Michael Stevenson

Films:

2010 You Never Left.
With Fanny Ardant and Tahar Rahim
8 mins

Awards:

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

Residencies:

2003 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.