Nadia Sirry

{{Short description|Egyptian artist (born 1958)}}

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Nadia Baher Sirry ({{langx|ar|نادية سري}}) is a Cairo-born painter of Turkish-Lebanese descent, born in 1958.

Life

Sirry is a graduate of Ain Shams University. She worked for a time at the British Institute in Egypt before devoting herself full-time to her artistic career. She currently lives and works in Cairo.{{Cite web|title = FineArt Sector - Biographies - Nadia Baher Sirry|url = http://www.fineart.gov.eg/eng/cv/cv.asp?IDS=3545|website = www.fineart.gov.eg|accessdate = 2016-01-01}}

=Membership=

  • Member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts.{{Cite web|title=FineArt Sector - Biographies - Nadia Baher Sirry|url=http://www.fineart.gov.eg/eng/cv/cv.asp?IDS=3545|website=fineart.gov.eg|accessdate=27 December 2015}}

===Private exhibitions===

  • Cairo Opera House (Salah Taher Hall) exhibition (The Feather){{Cite web|title=ريشة نادية سرى بالأوبرا - الأهرام اليومي|url=http://www.ahram.org.eg/NewsQ/458370.aspx|website=ahram.org.eg|accessdate=24 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316092844/http://www.ahram.org.eg/NewsQ/458370.aspx|archive-date=16 March 2016|url-status=dead}} December 2015

;International Exhibitions:

  • The traveling Gallery of the Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous – Millenarian Art in Toronto Canada{{Cite web|title = أعمال الفنانة نادية سري تتألق بكندا|url=http://www.dostor.org/228151|website = جريدة الدستور|date=28 June 2013|accessdate=27 December 2015}} – June 2013
  • The Fifth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous Millenarian Art in Quito{{Cite web|title=مشاركة مصرية فى بينالى الإكوادور - الأهرام اليومي|url=http://www.ahram.org.eg/NewsQ/312256.aspx|website=ahram.org.eg|accessdate=27 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316070953/http://www.ahram.org.eg/NewsQ/312256.aspx|archive-date=16 March 2016|url-status=dead}} Ecuador August 2014
  • Traveling Gallery "Recreando El Planeta" coordinated by IR-MANO Artistas Latinoamericanos Brazil and the Ministry of exterior affairs in Uruguay held at Santos Palace, Montevideo Uruguay November{{Cite web|title = الفنانة نادية سري تشارك بمعرض 'عالم متجدد' بأوروجواي|url=http://www.albawabhnews.com/890427|website = البوابة نيوز|date=9 November 2014|accessdate=27 December 2015}} 2014.

=Local Awards=

  • Honored and awarded a certificate of appreciation from the Minister of Culture and the Director of Fine Arts Sector 2012 and 2015.{{Cite web|title = الوطن {{!}} "الثقافة" تكرم نادية سري.. التشكيلية: أشعر بفخر لتكريمي في وطني|url = http://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/675189|website = www.elwatannews.com|date = 2015-03-02|accessdate = 2015-12-24}}
  • Honored by The Egyptian Arts Preservation Society 2015.{{Cite web|title = تكريم نادية سري بمعرض 'جماليات الفنون الإسلامية'|url=http://www.albawabhnews.com/1124748|website = البوابة نيوز|date=19 February 2015|accessdate=24 December 2015}}
  • Honored by The National Society of Fine Arts 2015.{{Cite web|title=بالصور.. الجمعية الأهلية للفنون الجميلة تكرم نادية سري|url=http://www.albawabhnews.com/1595702|website = البوابة نيوز|date=8 November 2015|accessdate=24 December 2015}}

=International Awards=

  • Special Award in Watercolor Painting from the Fourth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous- Millenarian Art{{Cite web|title = وزير الثقافة يكرم الفائزين في "بينالي الإكوادور"|url=http://horytna.net/Articles/Details//62061|accessdate=27 December 2015}} - October 2012{{Cite web|title=INTI ÑAN – EL CAMINO DEL SOL IV BIENAL INTERCONTINENTAL DE ARTE INDIGENA, ANCESTRAL O MILENARIO ACTA DEL JURADO CALIFICADOR|url=http://redlgc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/inti-an-el-camino-del-sol-iv-bienal-intercontinental-de-arte|website=redlgc.ning.com|accessdate=27 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304234516/http://redlgc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/inti-an-el-camino-del-sol-iv-bienal-intercontinental-de-arte|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}
  • First Award in Painting from at the Fifth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous-Millenarian Art{{Cite web|title=Egypt takes home first prize at Art Biennale in Ecuador|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/25/109736/Arts--Culture/Visual-Art/Egypt-takes-home-first-prize-at-Art-Biennale-in-Ec.aspx|website = english.ahram.org.eg|accessdate=24 December 2015}} – August 2014.{{Cite web|title=Egypt takes home first prize at Art Biennale in Ecuador|url=http://news.egypt.com/english/various/199063-egypt-takes-home-first-prize-at-art-biennale-in-ecuador.html|website=news.egypt.com|accessdate=27 December 2015}}{{Cite web|title=EGIPTO GANA PRIMER PREMIO EN LA BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DEL ECUADOR - Embajada del Ecuador en Egipto|url=http://egipto.embajada.gob.ec/egipto-gana-primer-premio-en-el-bienal-internacional-del-ecuador|website=egipto.embajada.gob.ec|accessdate=27 December 2015}}

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