Artist
Emna Masmoudi
Title
Reflection
Year
2008
Medium
Mixed media on canvas
Dimensions
200 × 100 cm
Courtesy
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Reflection, 2008

Courtesy of Elmarsa Gallery Tunis/Dubai

● Artist

Emna Masmoudi

Emna Masmoudi lives and works between Paris and Tunis. She has been awarded First Prize in painting in 2004 by the Tunisian Ministry of Culture. She graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1989 before she obtained her Masters degree in Visual Arts from the University of Paris VIII in 1993. She was the recipient of an annual grant from the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and she also completed a one year art residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts of Paris in 1998. Since 1990, Emna began exhibiting in Tunisian galleries such as Driba gallery and Ammar Farhat gallery before being represented by Elmarsa Gallery since 1997. She has shown her work in France since 1996 and abroad at the International Biennial of Sharjah and in Ten Years Young Tunisian Painting organized by the Ministry of Culture in Tunisia and France, as well as in Switzerland, Italy, USA, UK and Ireland.

● Patron

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was born in 1949 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He proceeded to become the ruler of Dubai, and the Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE in 2006. However, His Highness has been initiating projects aimed at the prosperity of Dubai and its people since his appointment as the Crown Prince of Dubai in 1995.