Khaled Hafez Egyptian-French, b. 1963

Khaled Hafez is an Egyptian-French visual artist, filmmaker and educator. He is born in Cairo, Egypt in 1963 where he currently lives and works. He studied medicine and followed the evening classes of the Cairo School of Fine Arts (Faculty of Fine Arts) in the eighties. After attaining a medical degree in 1987 and M.Sc. as a medical specialist in 1992, he gave up medical practices in the early nineties for a career in the arts. He later obtained an MFA in new media and digital arts from Transart Institute (New York, USA) and Danube University Krems (Austria). Hafez practice spans the mediums of painting, film / video, photography, installation and interdisciplinary approaches. Hafez, a Fulbright Fellow, Rockefeller Fellow,  and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Hafez occasionally curates visual arts and photography exhibitions for younger peers.

International Biennales Include: 57th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2017 (National Pavilion Grenada), 2^nd Asuncion Biennale, Paraguay, 2017, Curitiba Biennale ‘17, Brazil, 2017, 56^th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2015 (Official Collateral Biennale Exhibition), 3^rd Mardin Biennale, Turkey, 2015, 6^th Moscow Biennale, Russia, 2015, 1^st Trio Biennale, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2015, 1^st Bienal del Sur, Caracas, Venezuela, 2015, 15^th FotoFest Biennale, Houston, USA, 2014, 55^th Venice Biennale, Italy, 2013 (National Pavilion Maldives), 11^th Havana Biennale, Cuba, 2012, 9^th Bamako Photo Biennale, Mali, 2011, 8^th Mercosul Biennale, Brasil, 2011, 12^th Cairo Biennale, Egypt, 2010, Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010, 2^nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece, 2009, 3^rd Guangzhou Triennale, China, 2008, 7^th Sharjah Biennale, UAE, 2007, 1^st Singapore Biennale, 2006, 6^th & 7^th Dakar Biennale, Senegal, 2004 & 2006.