Heba Amin

Heba Y. Amin (alizaliwa 1980) ni msanii wa picha nchini Misri.

Maisha ya awali na Elimu
Amin alizaliwa na kukulia jijini Cairo. Alipata elimu yake ya juu kutoka chuo cha Kairo (‘’Cairo American Colleg’’) iliyopo Maadi. Amin alihamia nchini Marekani mwaka 1998 na kusomea Hisabati na Sanaa akapata diploma kutoka chuo kikuu cha Malacaster (‘’Macalester College’’). Mwaka 2005 alijiunga kwa masomo ya shahada katika chuo cha Minneapollis (‘’Minneapolis College of Art and Design’’). Alipata shahada ya Uzamili katika masuala ya Sanaa mnamo mwaka 2009 kutoka chuo kikuu cha Minnesota (‘’University of Minnesota’’). Kufutia masomo yake, alipata tuzo kutoka chuo kikuu cha Berlin kwa jina la ‘’DAAD (German Academic Exchange)’’ kwa kazi yake aliyoipa jina la "Alternative Memorials". She is a DCRL Fellow in Leuphana University in Lüneburg (2017), a doctoral fellow in at BGSMSC at Freie Universität in Berlin from 2016 to present, and a current Field of Vision fellow in NYC.

Kazi
Amin alijikita zaidi katika masuala ya utafiti na mahojiano juu ya siasa, teknolojia na ukuaji wa miji. Kwa sasa ni mtunzaji wa Sanaa za maonyesho za Mizna (Minneapolis, USA), mtunzaji wa program ya makazi kwa jina la DEFAULT akishirikiana na kampuni ya ‘’Ramdom Association (IT)’’ ya Italia na muanzilishi wa makusanyo ya Sanaa maarufu kama ‘’Black Athena Collective’’ akishirikiana na msanii mwenza bwana Dawit L. Petros. Amin pia ni miongoni mwa wasanii waanzilishi wa maonyesho ya televisheni kwa jina la ‘’Homeland’’ ambayo ilivutia watazamaji wengi ulimwenguni kwote.   

Akiwa kama muajiriwa wa wazalishaji wa ‘’Homeland’’ akiweka graffiti za kiarabu, amini alichora kwa rangi graffiti yenye kuelezea juu ya maonyesho ya Homeland, kwa maandishi ya kiarabu, mchoro huo ulielezea kua maonyesho hayo ya Homeland ni ya kibaguzi. Amin has criticized Homeland for its inaccuracy and bias in its portrayal of people from various countries in the Middle East.

Amin alielezea katika kitabu cha Watoto ‘’wanawake wa kipekee katika dunia ya waislamu’’; the book received a Moonbeam Children's Book Award.

Amin alishiriki katika maonyesho ya Dak'Art Biennale mwaka 2016, miradi mfululizo ya Marakkech Biennale mwaka 2016, makumbusho ya Sanaa za kisasa ya Warsaw,  Kunstverein huko Hamburg, Camera Austria, baraza la tisa la Berlin Berlinale, maonyesho ya kimataifa ya IV Moscow kwa Sanaa changa, maonyesho ya kumi na tano ya Sanaa za vyombo vya habari (‘’WRO Media Art Biennale’’) nchini Poland, maonyesho ya kitaifa ya sanaa Mongolia, na makumbusho ya Sanaa ya jijini Gotland Sweden. Alipata tuzo kutoka Ujerumani maarufu kama (‘Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst’’) na ya shirirka la Rhizome na pia aliteuliwa kushiriki katika tuzo za ‘’the artraker prize’’.

Amin alishawahi kuwa mkufunzi wa chuo kikuu cha Minnesota jijini Cairo, na katika chuo cha sayansi shirikishi cha jijini Berlin. Amefanya mafunzo mengi ya aina mbalimbali kwote duniani. Kazi yake kwa jina la The Earth Is an Imperfect Ellipsoid ya mwaka 2016 ilitumika na Mizna , na pia alihojiwa uandishi wa insha wa Lana Barkawi kwa jina la "Criticality and Dissent".

Kwa sasa Amin anaishi jijini Berlin na anafanya kazi kama mhadhiri katika chuo cha Bard ‘’Bard College Berlin’’.

Maonyesho yaliyochaguliwa 
 2019 "History Is Not Here: Sanaa na fikra za kiarabu Minnesota Museum of American Art, St Paul, MN, Marekani
 2017 "As If – The Media Artist as Trickster" Framer Framed, Uholanzi
 2016 "Beton" Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
 2016 "The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid" Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Uturuki 
 2016 "The City in the Blue Daylight" Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, Senegal
 2016 Cairotronica, Cairo, Misri
 2016 "Ultrahabitat" Gallery Zilberman Berlin, Ujerumani
 2016 "As Birds Flying/Kama Tohalleq al Teyour" Sanaa ya filabu za Dubai
 2016 "The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid" Marrakech Biennale, Morocco
 2016 "Making Use" makumbusho ya Sanaa za kisasa Warsaw, Poland 
 2016 "Fluidity" ilitunzwa na Bettina Steinbrügge (Kunstverein huko Hamburg), Nina Möntmann (Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm) na Vanessa Joan Müller (Kunsthalle Vienna) Kunstverein huko Hamburg, Ujerumani
 2015 "To What End?" ilitunzwa na Gulsen Bal, Walter Seidle, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
 2014 "Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo de Fes–8eme edition" ilitunzwa na Selva Barni & Francesca Girelli, Institut Francais Fes, Morocco
 2014 "A Time for Dreams" ilitunzwa na David Elliot, maonyesho ya IV ya Kimataifa ya Biennale Moscow kwa Sanaa changa, Urusi
 2014 "9th Forum Expanded: What Do We Know When We Know Where Something Is?" 64th Berlinale, Berlin, Ujerumani
 2012 "The Download" Rhizome, makumbusho mapya, NY, Marekani
 2012 "(Is there) Light in outer space?" maonyesho ya miji ya kale, Melbourne, Australia
 2011 "Let’s Get Ready" maonyesho ya Sanaa mpya ya Pixxelpoint, Nova Gorica, Slovenia

Maonyesho yaliyochaguliwa 
 2016 "As Birds Flying/Kama Tohalleq al Teyour" baraza la 66 la Berlinale, Berlin, Ujerumani 
 2016  "Homeland is Not a Series" sehemiu ya maono, maonyesho ya kimataifa ya filamu ya Rotterdam, Uholanzi 
 2014 "MEI Film Festival Davenport", chuo cha St. Ambrose, IA
 2013 "Difference Screen" umepangwa na Bruce Allan, Ben Eastop, ARKO Arts Centre, Seoul, Korea kusini
 2013 "Difference Screen" umepangwa na Bruce Allan, Ben Eastop, Artisterium, Tbilisi, Georgia
 2013 "Difference Screen" umepangwa na Bruce Allan, Ben Eastop, Manyesho ya kitaifa ya Sanaa za kisasa ya Mongolian, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
 2013 "Difference Screen" umepangwa na Bruce Allan, Ben Eastop, Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean, Uingereza
 2012  "Mizna’s 7th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival" Minneapolis, MN Marekani
 2012  "Fluid Spaces" Alfilm Arabisches Film Festival Berlin/ifa Galerie

Heshima/Ruzuku/Tuzo 
 2020 tuzo, Anni and Heinrich Sussmann Artist Award
 2019 tuzo, Paulo Cunha E. Silva Prize, aliteuliwa
 2018 tuzo, Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse, aliteuliwa
 2018 ruzuku ya uzalishaji, Valletta 2018 Commission, European Capital of Culture, Malta
 2018 ruzuku ya uzalishaji, Akademie der Künste der Welt/Köln,Ujerumani
 2017 ruzuku ya uzalishaji, Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant
 2016 ruzuku ya uzalishaji, Interkultur Ruhr Commission, Metropole Ruhr, Ujerumani
 2014 tuzo, Artraker Artist Prize, aliteuliwa
 2009 tuzo, Rhizome Commissions Program, New Museum, NYC, NY
 2007 ruzuku ya uzaalishaji, “Latitudes” Mizna Granting Program, Minneapolis, MN
 2004 ruzuku ya mtaalamu, “Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant” Minneapolis, MN

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