Nasceu em 1963 no Cairo, Egipto.
Vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque, E.U.A.
FORMAÇÃO
1989 MFA in Painting, Villa Arson EPIAR, Nice, France.
EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS (seleção)
2014 Rainbow Girls, Cheim and Read, New York, NY, USA.
2013 Référence à Elle, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
2012 The Other I, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Ghada Amer, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal.
2011 100 Words of Love, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA.
No Romance, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2010 Color Misbehavior, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA.
2009 Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Roses Off Limits, Pace Prints, New York, NY, USA.
2008 Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: Collaborative Drawings, Tina Kim Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA.
Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh: A New Collaboration on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore.
Love Has No End, Elisabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA.
2007 Ghada Amer & Reza Farkhondeh, Collaborative Drawings, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Another Spring, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
Le Salon Courbé, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Ghada Amer, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, MACRO, Rome, Italy.
2006 Breathe Into Me, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea), NY, USA.
2004 Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, CA, USA.
Ghada Amer, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain.
2003 Ghada Amer, Forefront 45, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Ghada Amer, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy.
2002 Ghada Amer, Gagosian Gallery, London, England.
Ghada Amer, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2001 Encyclopedia of Pleasure, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA.
Reading Between the Threads, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway. Traveled to: Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany and Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden.
2000 Ghada Amer Drawings, Anadil Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel.
Intimate Confessions, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA. Traveled: to Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel and Kunst-werke, Berlin, Germany.
Ghada Amer, Centre Culturel Contemporain (C.C.C.), Tours, France.
1999 Ghada Amer, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain.
1998 Ghada Amer, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
1997 Ghada Amer, Espace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt.
1996 Ghada Amer, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
1994 Ghada Amer, Centre Jules Verne, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France.
1993 Ghada Amer, Galerie Météo, Paris, France.
1992 Ghada Amer, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France.
EXPOSIÇÕES COLECTIVAS (seleção)
2014 Mauvais Genre, Addict Galerie, Paris, France.
Killer Heels, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Songs of Loss and Songs of Love, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea.
The Divine Comedy, The Mmk Frankfurt Museum, Germany.
2013 Earth Matters, National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Sculptrices, Villa Datris, Fondation pour la Sculpture Contemporaine, L’Isle-sur-Sorgue, France.
2012 Prism – Drawing from 1990-2011, The National Museum of Art,Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.
Le Corps Découvert, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France.
The Mediterranean Approach, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, Brazil.
Tea For Nefertiti, Arab Museum of Doha, Qatar, UAE. Travelled to Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France.
2011 The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York, USA.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
2010 Residua, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE.
Told, Untold, Retold, The Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, UAE.
2009 Against exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
Elles @ centrepompidou, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France.
2008 Prospects 1, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
2007 Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum, New York. Traveled to Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.
2006 Without Boundary, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
Zones of Contact, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
2005 Centre of Gravity , Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey.
Here Comes the Sun , Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden.
Always a Little Further, 51st International Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy.
2004 Africa Remix Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London, England; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan and Moderna Museet Stockholm, Sweden.
Hommage à Georges Pompidou: Parcours dans les Collections du Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris,France.
2003 Harem Fantasies and the New Scheherazades, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY, USA. Travelled to: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI, USA; City Art Center, Edimbourough, Scothland, UK.
Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Il Racconto del Filo: Ricamo e cucito nell’arte contemporanea, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Roverto, Italy.
2001 The Short Century, Museum Village Stuck, Munich, Germany. Traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA and PS1 Long Island City, New York, NY.
2000 Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA.
Man and Space, Gwangju Biennial 2000, Gwangju, Korea.
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France.
1999 APERTO Over All, 48th International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia, Italy.
Looking for a Place, Third International Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM, USA.
1998 Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
L’Envers du Décor, Dimensions Décoratives dans l’Art du XXème Siècle, Musée d’Art Moderne Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France.
1997 Vraiment Féminisme et Art, Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France.
Alternating Currents, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa.
1996 The Sense of Order, Moderne Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Orient/ation, The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World, 4th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
1992 I Love Paris, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France.
COLEÇÕES PÚBLICAS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI.
Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC) Paris, France
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Auvergne, France.
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.
Guggenheim Museum, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
LaM Museum, Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, NY.
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Samsung Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY.
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.