DOMINIQUE NAVARRO

Dominique Navarro — Founder & Curator of Luxor Art Gallery

Dominique 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

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DOMINIQUE NAVARRO Hand of Fate, 2012 Lost in the Woolsey Fire, 2018

DOMINIQUE NAVARRO

Hand of Fate, 2012

Lost in the Woolsey Fire, 2018

DOMINIQUE NAVARRO Portrait of Abu, 2017 Lost in the Woolsey Fire, 2018

DOMINIQUE NAVARRO

Portrait of Abu, 2017

Lost in the Woolsey Fire, 2018

DOMINIQUE NAVARRO Although I don't have a chance to paint often or enough — and despite all my life's artwork, studio, and home being destroyed in the 2018 wildfires of California — I was inspired to create this little painting, reflecting on my ho

DOMINIQUE NAVARRO

Although I don't have a chance to paint often or enough — and despite all my life's artwork, studio, and home being destroyed in the 2018 wildfires of California — I was inspired to create this little painting, reflecting on my hopes and struggles, my joys and fears. Oddly enough for me, it was a truly spontaneous painting, in which suddenly crocodiles emerged, first one, than the other... I have often struggled with the concept of Egyptian artwork, and how I, as a foreigner, fit into that dialogue. But thanks to Luxor Art Gallery, I have found a true community of artist colleagues that have revived my faith in exploring one's own voice, no matter where they find themselves in the world. Egypt has been a great gift to me, giving me an incredible career and an artistic direction. Like the Nile with its powerful waters, I have been caught in its currents, pulled into its depths, and gratefully submerged. —Dominique Navarro, November 2019

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