Luxor Art Gallery is a premier contemporary art gallery in Luxor, Egypt.
Based in Egypt, , Luxor Art Gallery is dedicated to promoting local contemporary fine art and Egypt’s extraordinary artists. Located in the West Bank of Luxor across from the Colossi of Memnon, Luxor Art Gallery opened in November 2018.
Luxor Art Gallery has presented artwork by over 75 artists in the gallery and on the website, with numerous group and solo exhibitions, art workshops, field trips, music performances and social gatherings. The gallery has been a meeting point for Egyptian locals, families, art students, Egyptologists, and tourists to meet and share their love of the arts.
Luxor Art Gallery is an opportunity to highlight exceptional cultural significance for Egypt by:
providing opportunities for Upper Egyptian (southern rural) contemporary artists, including women and men of all ages, to showcase their work to a global audience, including international tourists and online contemporary art communities;
emphasize Luxor as a significant cultural destination not only for its ancient heritage, but also as a contemporary art establishment;
and as a positive collaboration between Egyptians and Americans, as well as other international art colleagues.
LUXOR ART GALLERY
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Luxor Art Gallery’s Board Of Trustees is a group of individuals responsible for the creative management of the gallery, to guarantee the highest integrity of the business, protecting the artists the gallery promotes, and safeguarding a valuable asset to the Luxor Art Community. Board of Trustees are composed of Artists in Luxor, Egypt.
DR. ALAA AWAD — TRUSTEE
Dr. Alaa Awad is most famous for his mural paintings. He received an M.A in Fine Arts from Helwan University, and his B.A. from South Valley University, Faculty of Fine Arts, in Luxor, where he also received his PhD in 2019 and continues to teach. His dissertation was entitled “Artistic Vision Inspired by the Murals of War and Peace in Ancient Egyptian Art.” He has participated in international exhibitions and events in France, Germany, Denmark, China, and the United States, and his artwork is held within numerous private collections. Based in Luxor, he is deeply inspired by his ancient Egyptian heritage and his artwork explores that influence along with contemporary society, Sufism, and rural Egyptian culture. His murals in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 epitomized the emotions and struggles of the people and earned his fame. Official Website: http://alaa-awad.com/
KATRINA VREBALOVICH — TRUSTEE
Katrina Vrebalovich is a long time resident of Egypt, with her painting studio currently in Luxor. She received her art education from Parson School of Design, New York City. She has participated in numerous exhibitions for decades in Egypt, the U.S., Norway, and Europe, including Arts-Mart Cairo Art Fair, On Caravan, Picasso Gallery, Ragab Gallery and Rana Museum in Cairo, Nordic Art Galleri, Galleri Dina and Galleri Stallen in Norway, Gallery Artem in Slovakia, Sammas Gallery in Estonia, and Espace Vega in Paris, to name a few. Her wearable art and jewelry are also sold by various vendors in Los Angeles and New York. Her murals and paintings have been showcased by the Movenpick Hotel and Peace Center in Sharm El Sheik, Nile cruise ships for Hapi Tours, and she has participated in public art murals and mosaics in Norway and Egypt. Official Website: http://www.magicaleye.net/
DOMINIQUE NAVARRO — FOUNDER
Dominique Navarro is an Emmy Award winning art director. For nearly a decade, she has worked in Luxor as an author & illustrator of numerous publications with American University in Cairo Press, including Egypt’s Wildlife, Past & Present, in English and Arabic, and her informative Artists Coloring Books, Ancient Egypt and Tutankhamun, have been translated into Mandarin Chinese, and is traveling with the King Tut 100th Anniversary world tour exhibition. She is currently working as an epigraphic artist with the University of Chicago Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey. She graduated from the University of California Los Angeles School of the Arts and Architecture, and was an intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, where she helped prepare educational material and gave docent tours. In 2017, she was invited to participate in the 5th Upper Egypt Art Salon and was a member of the selection committee. She established Luxor Art Gallery in 2018. Official Website: http://www.dominiquenavarro.com/
A message from the Founder about Luxor Art Gallery:
I have been seeking out contemporary artists in Luxor for years, trying to understand what contemporary art means in a city that is known as an ancient necropolis. Tourists come from across the globe to see the temples and tombs of the past, in awe of the divine reliefs and sculptures of the ancient Egyptians. But what about the living artists and their work?
What I discovered, gradually, is that art is alive and thriving in Luxor despite its lack of opportunity to be seen. Thanks to the art school with its talented professors and inspired students, there is a life force for contemporary art, yet there are seldom any opportunities to see such work, with only a few brief exhibitions in limited venues each year.
Luxor needs a permanent, contemporary art gallery. Luxor needs Luxor Art Gallery.
While Cairo will always be the cultural center for Egypt’s art scene, there is something about southern Egyptian contemporary art that you can’t find in the big city… The rural south—full of its traditions and sunlight, folklore and dust, its ancient influences and striving future—is captured and interpreted in fresh, vivid ways by its contemporary artists. It is uniquely its own. It is exciting to discover, astonishing to explore, and exhilarating to share because it is so overlooked and underestimated.
I truly believe that Luxor Art Gallery is a necessity and invaluable to the artists, the community, and to all Luxor’s visitors seeking an enlightening experience. It is a glimpse of the living, breathing soul of a transforming city.
—Dominique Navarro