Biography
Aya Gamil (b. 1996, Cairo, Egypt) is a visual artist whose practice engages with accumulation, memory, and the traces left by lived experience. Through painting and material experimentation, making becomes a process of release where forms emerge, dissolve, and transform through cycles of pressure, persistence, and change.
Moving between bodily presence, organic forms, landscapes, and imagined environments, her work reflects on what remains rather than what has passed. Rather than representing experience directly, Gamil traces its residue, approaching art-making as an act of witnessing, accumulation, and continuous transformation.
Her work considers how emotions inhabit surfaces, materials, and spaces, carrying traces of experience beyond fixed narratives or singular forms. Images repeatedly shift between appearance and disappearance, suggesting unstable territories shaped by memory, tension, and transformation.
For Gamil, making is less concerned with reconstruction and more with what persists what accumulates, lingers, and continues to reshape experience over time.
Education
Faculty of Fine Arts — Bachelor’s Degree
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
Raveled — Solo Exhibition December 2025, Gallery Misr, Cairo Egypt
Group and collaborative exhibitions
Visual Narratives — ART74, Cairo Opera House, 5th Edition of the Cairo Film Festival, November 2024
Women Written by Women — Art D’Egypte, Access Gallery Downtown, October 2024
Baboon Symposium Itinerary — ALDAU Add Art, Hyatt Centric, May 2024
Thorny Edges — Duo Exhibition, Medrar for Contemporary Art, January 2024
Night with Beauties — Arcade Gallery, July 2024
Shadows and Lights — Arcade Gallery, November 2024
Outflow — Group Exhibition, Motion Gallery, May 2023
White — Arcade Gallery, August 2023
Association des Amis de l’Art — October 2023
Nights in Space — Arcade Gallery, March 2023
The Other Side of the Other — Art D’Egypte, Access Art Space, 2023
Printemps des Artistes — Diplomatic Club, April 2023
Pump — Tahrir Cultural Center, AUC, June 2023
World Art Forum —Talaat Harb Pasha Museum May 2023
Memory Fish or Elephant — The Art Gallery, December 2022
Plage Champollion — Access Art Space, September 2022
My Favorite Things (6th Edition) — Mashrabia Gallery, October 2021
Youth Salon — Cairo Opera House, March 2021
Farouk Hosni Foundation Exhibition — Gezira Art Center, March 2021
Artists of the Future — Motion Gallery, October 2020
My Favorite Things (5th Edition) — Mashrabia Gallery, October 2020
Farouk Hosni Foundation Exhibition — Gezira Art Center, March 2020
My Favorite Things (4th Edition) — Mashrabia Gallery, October 2019
Art Fairs
Cairo Art Fair — Grand Egyptian Museum, January 2026
Publications
Press & Features
Artwork featured on the cover of Akhbar Al-Adab (special issue on Shadi Abdel Salam)
Interview: Aya Gamil: On the Body and Remembering, Bayn Space, 2026
Book Design
Book cover design for The Tavern of the Black Cat by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Diwan
Critical Writing
Critical post on the solo exhibition Raveled by Salah Bisar
Exhibition Texts
Exhibition catalogue text on Raveled by Yasser Sultan


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