Bio-Emna Zghal

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007	The Tree Of My Mind, M.Y. Art Prospects, New York, NY, U.S.A
2006	Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, U.S.A.
2004	Recent Paintings & Prints, DM CONTEMPORARY, Mill Neck, NY, U.S.A
2004	Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis, TUNISIA, U.S.A
2003	The Prophet of Black Folk, Alwan for the Arts, New York, NY, U.S.A
2002	The Scene Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2000	Lock Haven University, PA, U.S.A
1999	Embassy of Tunisia, Washington, DC, U.S.A
1996	Galerie d’Art Essaadi, Carthage, TUNISIA
1995	Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE
1994	Musée de Sidi bou Said, TUNISIA
1993	Sparkasse, Marburg-Biedenkopf, GERMANY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008	Dangerous Women, Fine Arts Exhibition Hall/Adele and Herbert J.Klapper Center for Fine Arts, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, U.S.A. Curator: Carson Fox Utopian Visions, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, U.S.A. Faculty Bienial, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, U.S.A From Taboo to Icon: Africanist Turnabout, Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. Curators: Sophie Sanders and Shervone Nickles.
2007	Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, U.S.A. Gulf Art Fair, Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (represented by Galerie El Marsa) Changing Climate, Changing Colors: Works of Contemporary Muslim Artists, curated by Mareena Daredia, Abrons Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, U.S.A. RE: GENERATION, curated by Joan Snyder and Molly Snyder Fink, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. Works on paper of RE: GENERATION artists Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
2006	Book Blast, curated by Kati Kivimäki and Arja Roivainen, Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, FINLAND Mémoire de Demain, curated by Marianne Cazaras, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis, TUNISIA War What Is It Good For, curated by Lyz Bly, B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH, U.S.A.
2005	Regards Sur La Tunisie, curated by Lilia Ben Salah, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis, TUNISIA RE:GENERATION co-curated by Joan Snyder and Molly Snyder Fink, Douglass College/ Rutgers University, The One, multiple curators, NGC 224, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. Two-Person show, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A. US-UK, curated by Ryan S. Lemke and Koan Jeff Baysa, The Lab Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2004	Watch What We Say, curated by Marc Lepson, Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY Artists in Residence, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Reverberation on Violence, online show, Barnard College, NYC, NY Nostalgie: Sfaxian artists living Abroad. Galerie La Kasbah, Sfax, TUNISIA
2003	Artists In Residence, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, U.S.A. Dumba Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A. Space And Surface Painting, Gallery Korea, New York, NY, U.S.A. Contemporary Art From the Ancient World, Saint John the Devine, New York, NY U.S.A.. curator: O. Abusitta
2002	Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. One Center, New York, NY, U.S.A. Dolan Center, Locust Valley, NY, U.S.A.
2001	Poetry and Paintings, National Arts Club, New York, NY, U.S.A. Dreaming of Carthage, Park Creek Gallery, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Unbearables Festival, Fire Patrol No5 Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 8th Artists of the Second District LMCC, Federal Reserve Bank, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2000	Progress of the World’s Women an international art exhibition sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Museum of Women,United Nations, New York, NY, U.S.A. National Summit on Africa Convention Center, Washington, DC , U.S.A. Contemporary Tunisian Painting, World Space Corporation,Washington, DC, U.S.A.
1999	Desho No Tomodachi Desu, 505 Gallery, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Graduate Thesis Exhibition, PAFA Museum, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
1998	Dieci anni di giovane pittura Tunisina Bari, ITALY Artistry Across the Waters, Washington, DC Third Street Gallery, Second Juried Show, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., Juror Elisabeth Osborne –Awarded Second Prize-
1997	The New Delhi Triennial, INDIA Two Emerging Artists, Manayunk Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Tunisian Fine Arts in the Last Decade Galerie Yahia, Tunis, TUNISIA
1996	Welcome to the Cruel World, a show about ecology, Espace d’Art Milles Feuilles, La Marsa,TUNISIA Union of Tunisian Fine Artists Annual Show, Tunis, TUNISIA Kuwait Biennial, Kuwait City, KUWAIT
1995	Salon of the City of Tunis’ Prize, Galerie Yahia, TUNISIA Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE Contemporary Tunisian Art, traveling show in TUNISIA
1994	Salon d’Automne de la Marsa, TUNISIA The Washi Art Association, Tokyo, JAPAN Galerie Driba, La Marsa, TUNISIA Young Tunisian Fine Artists, Galerie Yahia, Tunis, TUNISIA Musée de Sidi Bou Said, TUNISIA Galerie La Kasbah, Sfax, TUNISIA
1992	Clin d’Œil Plastik, Homage for Women in the Arts & Crafts, Hammamet, TUNISIA

FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES

2008	Creative Capital Grant for Dark Turquoise in collaboration with Michael Rakowtiz, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2007	Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2006	Women's Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY , U.S.A.
2005	Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, U.S.A.
2004	Artist In Residence, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.
2003	Fellowship, Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT, U.S.A.
2002	Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A. Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, U.S.A.
1996-98	Gilroy Roberts Scholarship. PAFA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
1995	First Prize of the City of Tunis, TUNISIA
1994	Fellowship residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE President of the Republic’s Prize for the Best Young Artist, TUNISIA
1993	Fellowship residency, Centre des Arts Vivants, Radès, TUNISIA

EDUCATION

2004	Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME, U.S.A.
1999	MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
1992	BA, École Des Beaux Arts, Tunis,TUNISIA

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

	Museum For African Art, New York, NY, U.S.A Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, U.S.A Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, U.S.A. New Yor Public Library, New York, NY, U.S.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A. University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A. University of Delaware, Newark, DE, U.S.A. Swicorp, Tunis, TUNISIA Genentech, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. Amen Bank, Tunis, TUNISIA Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/NY-Public Library, New York, NY, U.S.A. Pfizer, Inc. New York, NY, U.S.A. Thomas and Associates, New York, NY, U.S.A. Haffeys Architects, New York, NY, U.S.A. M.Hage Architects, New York, NY, U.S.A. Lock Haven University, PA, U.S.A. Agip, Rome, ITALY City of Tunis, TUNISIA Tunisair, Paris, FRANCE Tunisian Ministry of Culture. TUNISIA Tunisian Ministry of Youth. TUNISIA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

	Megan Heuer, RE:GENERATION, ARTnews, May 2007 Lori Cole, Critic’s Pick, artforum.com, Feb 2007 O. Khatlan, Emna Zghal Exhibits Printed Images that Near Poetry, Al Sharq Al Awsat, Feb 14, 2007, Issue # 10305 Mémoire De Demain, exhibition catalogue, Tunis, Tunisia, March, 2006 Tina LaPorta, war.art, NY ARTS, New York, NY. No 9/10, 2004 Gallery Guide, New York, NY (listing & color reproduction) Summer 2004 Nostalgie, exhibition catalogue, Sfax, TUNISIA Najwa Adra, Hybrid Vigor: The Art of Emna Zghal, Al Jadid Magazine, Vol.9 # 45 Fall 2003 Alia Hamza, En art, il est bien de se perdre quelquefois, La Presse, Feb 26, 2004 Hachmi Ghachem, Les perfections Sont-elles Parfaites, Le Temps, Feb 24, 2004 Monther Chraiet, Entre Orient & Occident, Le Quotidien, Feb 20, 2004 Holland Cotter, Art Listing, The New York Times, Feb 15, 2003 Gallery Guide, Summer 2003, New York, NY Charley Magazine, New York, NY, Vol 1, No1 Edward J. Sozanski, Art Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 26, 2002 Piri Halasz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, Online Magazine, May 2002 Kim Levin, Voice Choices, Village Voice, May 21, 2002 Roberta Smith, A Profusion of Painting, Very Much Alive, New York Times, May 10, 2002 Helen Harrison, Art Review, New York Times, May 5, 2002 Alia Hamza , La Culture et les Arts à la conquête du nouveau monde, La Presse, Tunis, TUNISIA, Feb 13, 2000 Aisha Davis, Artistry Across the Waters, Washington, DC (catalogue) 1998 Nariman El Kateb, Dieci anni di giovane pittura Tunisina, exhibition catalogue, Bari, ITALY (catalogue) 1998 Nariman El Kateb, Dix Années de Peinture Tunisienne, Tunis, TUNISIA, 1997 Fathi Chargui, Chercheuse d’Art, Le Temps, Tunis, TUNISIA, July 15, 1996 Agip Oil Company, Calendar & Agenda, Rome, ITALY, 1996 Fathi Chargui, Foisonnement aux intensités diverses, Le Temps, Tunis, TUNISIA, November 21, 1995 Mohamed El Hadef, First Prize to the Young Painter Emna Zghal, El Sahafah, Tunis, TUNISIA, November 21, 1995 Forêt Rose, La Lettre Des Musiques et Des Arts Africains No18-19 Paris, FRANCE, April 20, 1995 (Listing) Sonia Chamkhi Khanfir, Le geste liberateur, La Presse, Tunis, TUNISIA, Sep 1, 1995