Iman Issa’s constantly evolving practice combines video, installation, objects, photography and text to create enigmatic and often deeply personal interpretations of existing situations, places and events.  At Past of the Coming Days she presented her video work Memorial to the Iraq War, a project originally commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London in 2007.

Other exhibitions include Can Altay / Iman Issa, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul (2010), Subjective Projections, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (2010), Trapped in Amber: Angst for a Reenacted Decade, UKS, Oslo (2009), 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008), Cairoscape: Images, Imagination, and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (2008), Making Places, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo (2008), (2008), Philip, Project Art Center, Dublin (2006), and Mediterraneo, MACRO, Rome (2004). Her video work has been screened at several venues including Tate Modern, London, Spacex, Exeter, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and Bidoun Artists’ Cinema, Art Dubai.

Iman Issa was born in 1979 in Cairo. She studied visual arts at the American University in Cairo and then at Columbia University in New York, where she completed her MFA in 2007.

November 2010