Doa Aly (b.1976, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works in Cairo
Doa Aly is a visual artist, choreographer, filmmaker and writer. With a BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo (2001), she is interested in movement, language, narrativity, abstraction, and repetition as tools to penetrate themes of madness, holiness and violence. Over the years, her work has evolved into a research-based practice generating multiple outcomes across numerous media, unfolding through the deconstruction, reinterpretation and re-appropriation of various sources, drawn from literature, history, and current events. Aly was shortlisted for the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2017) and has had solo exhibitions at the Townhouse, Cairo (2013); Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2013) and Darat al Funun, Amman (2010). Her work has been exhibited as part of group shows worldwide including Bard College, New York (2017); Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival, Cairo (2016); La Loge, Brussels (2016-2017); The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2015) and The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2015), among others.