Nada Elkalaawy is an Egyptian artist living and working in London. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art (2018) and BA in Fine Art from Kingston University (2016). She is predominantly a painter but also works with drawing, animation, and tapestry. Elkalaawy recently had solo shows at Taymour Grahne Projects (London), Galerie DuflonRacz (Bern) and Gypsum Gallery (Cairo), with forthcoming shows at Half Gallery (New York), Super Super Markt (Berlin) and Kirki Projects (Tinos). She participated in group shows in numerous venues including Marlborough Gallery (London); Svetova1 (Prague); Kunstraum Dreiviertel (Bern); KINO DER KUNST (Munich); Sharjah Art Gallery (Cairo); Shubbak Festival (London); Southwark Park Galleries (London); Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz (Berlin); Nahim Isaias Museum (Guayaquil) and Refugees Museum (Thessaloniki) amongst others. Her work has been shortlisted for the Sainsbury Scholarship for the British School at Rome, the Waverton Art Prize, the ACS Studio Prize, Contemporary British Painting Prize, the Dentons Art Prize, and the Sarabande Emerging Art Fund. It has also been published in Vogue Arabia, the Evening Standard, Sky News Arabia and Jdeed magazine. Elkalaawy has been awarded the Pro Helvetia Studio Residency, PROGR (Bern); Montresso Art Foundation (Marrakech) and L’appartement 22 (Rabat). She also participated in public events and talks including COP26 commission project for Liverpool Arab Arts Festival; Ujamaa National Trust commission project and TASHWEESH festival, Goethe Institute (Cairo). Alongside her art practice, Elkalaawy co-founded artist group ‘K-oh-llective’, recipient of Mophradat’s Self-Organizations grant (2020), which aims to facilitate opportunities and collective conversations around art practices in Egypt and the Arab world. Her work is included in the X Museum collection (Beijing), Soho House collection (London) and private collections worldwide.