Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to Ubuntu Art Gallery.
Artists
Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.
Hussein Bicar
Hussein Amin Bicar (1913–2002) was one of Egypt’s most prominent 20th-century artists. Born in Alexandria and a 1934 graduate of Cairo’s School of Fine Arts, he taught art for more than six decades and pioneered a style of journalistic illustration in the Egyptian press, alongside a celebrated body of portraits and Nubian scenes.
Abdel Wahab Morsi
Abdel Wahab Morsi (1931–2021) was an Egyptian painter and long-serving professor of fine arts whose work moved between figuration and a lyrical, symbolic abstraction rooted in ancient Egyptian and folk visual traditions. He was a respected figure in Egypt’s post-war modernist generation.
Mounir Canaan
Mounir Canaan (1919–1999) was a self-taught Egyptian artist widely regarded as a pioneer of abstraction in Egypt. Moving from realism through expressive figuration to collage and abstract compositions, he became a leading voice of Egyptian modernism and received the State Merit Award.
Britt Boutros Ghali
Britt Boutros Ghali (b. 1937) is a Norwegian-born painter who has lived and worked in Egypt for decades. Her luminous, colour-driven paintings, influenced by Egyptian light and landscape, hover between abstraction and nature, and are regularly shown in Cairo galleries.
Ihab Shaker
Ihab Shaker (1933–2019) was an Egyptian painter, illustrator and pioneer of Egyptian animation. Known for his witty, poetic line and his work in theatre design, children’s books and the press, he also produced a distinctive body of paintings and drawings shown widely in Egypt and abroad.
Abdel Fattah El Badri
Abdel Fattah El Badri is an Egyptian painter whose works have been presented in Cairo by Ubuntu Art Gallery, including in the gallery’s “Collector’s Eye” exhibitions of modern and contemporary Egyptian art.
Sameh El Banani
Sameh El Banani is an Egyptian artist whose work has been shown in Cairo at Picasso Art Gallery and Ubuntu Art Gallery, including the “Collector’s Eye XIII” exhibition (2026).
Samir Ahmed Ali
Samir Ahmed Ali (b. 1972) is an Egyptian contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited in Cairo, including at Ubuntu Art Gallery in “The Collector’s Eye XIII” (2026).