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. Elkalaawy had solo shows at Taymour Grahne Projects (London), GalerieDuflonRacz (Bern), Gypsum Gallery (Cairo) and Super Super Markt (Berlin). Selected group shows and festivals include Marlborough Gallery (London); Half Gallery (New York); Woaw Gallery (Hong Kong); The Africa Centre (London); Kirki Projects (Tinos); Svetova1 (Prague); Kino Der Kunst (Munich); Sharjah Art Gallery (Cairo); Shubbak Festival (London); Southwark Park Galleries (London); 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. Her work will be featured in Anomie’s forthcoming review of Contemporary British Painting, and previously featured 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’appartement22 (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’, a platform that facilitates 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.