GHADA AMER (b. 1963, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works in New York.
Ghada Amer is best known for her textile installations, sculptures and paintings, which she intricately embroiders with texts and images that address aspects of women's sexuality, desire and happiness, often in ways that subtly expose the contradictions inherent in religious and feminist forms of extremism.
Amer's work has been presented in numerous international solo and group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial (2000); the Venice Biennale (1999); SITE Santa Fe; and the Johannesburg Biennale, among others. Her exhibition Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, the first large-scale U.S. survey of her work, was presented this year at the Brooklyn Museum, NY.
Amer is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York.