Nadia Sirry
Nadia Baher Sirry 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.Membership
- Member of the Syndicate of Plastic Arts.
Private exhibitions
- Cairo Opera House exhibition December 2015
- The traveling Gallery of the Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous – Millenarian Art in Toronto Canada – June 2013
- The Fifth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous Millenarian Art in Quito 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 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.
- Honored by The Egyptian Arts Preservation Society 2015.
- Honored by The National Society of Fine Arts 2015.
International Awards
- Special Award in Watercolor Painting from the Fourth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous- Millenarian Art - October 2012
- First Award in Painting from at the Fifth Intercontinental Biennial of Indigenous-Millenarian Art – August 2014.