Mahmoud Muhammad Ibrahim Mustafa Nofal

Personal data

Known name: Mahmoud Ibrahim
Date of birth: 12/9/1945
Place of birth: Western
Specialization: Photography
Email: mahmoud.ibrahim.2011@yahoo.com

school grade

- Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography, Helwan University, 1969.
- Postgraduate studies in photography technology 1974.

Membership

- Founding member of the Fine Artists Syndicate.
- Member of the Fine Art Critics Group.
- Member of the Cinema Professions Syndicate.
- Member of the Artists and Writers Group (Alexandria Atelier).

Jobs and professions undertaken by the artist

- Film director and puppet designer on Egyptian television 1970.
- Full-time visual artist.
- Senior TV Director - Arab Republic of Egypt Television.

Special exhibitions

- Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall, Zamalek Arts Complex, 1972.
- An exhibition entitled (When the features of the fetuses are determined - the new birth) in Algiers, 1975.
- Exhibition at the Arts Complex in Zamalek, 1979.
- Exhibition at the Arts Complex in Zamalek, 1984.
- Exhibition in Akhenaten Hall, Zamalek Arts Complex, 2000.
- An exhibition entitled (Paintings in a Time of Attempts) in the Isis Hall at the Mahmoud Mukhtar Cultural Center in the Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum, January 2020.

Local group exhibitions

- An exhibition about the Palestinian revolution with the artist Mazen Abu Ghazaleh at the Shebin El-Koum Institute, 1967.
- The Eighth Vanguards Exhibition (Fine Arts Lovers Association) 1967 - Cairo.
- The Palestinian Revolution 1967 Exhibition.
- The Ninth Vanguards Exhibition (Fine Arts Lovers Association) 1968 - Cairo
- Human Rights Exhibition 1968.
- The Tenth Vanguards Exhibition (Fine Arts Lovers Association) 1969 - Cairo
- Annual General Art Exhibition 1970.
- Cairo Salon (47) 1971.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (3), 1971.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (4), 1972.
- The Thirteenth Vanguards Exhibition (Fine Arts Lovers Association) 1973 - Cairo.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (11), 1981.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (21) 1990.
- National Fine Arts Exhibition, session (27) 2001, session (28) 2003.
- The First Fine Creativity Festival (Thirtieth General Exhibition and First Fine Art Market) 2007.
- Fine art exhibition and workshop within the activities of the El Sakia Festival for Cultural Services in El Sawy Culturewheel 2008.
- The Third Fine Creativity Festival (General Exhibition, Thirty-Second Session) 2009.
- The Fourth Fine Creativity Festival (General Exhibition, Thirty-Third Session) 2010.
- The Fourth Fine Creativity Festival (Small Artworks Market) in the (Nahdet Misr and Isis) halls at the Mahmoud Mukhtar Cultural Center - Mahmoud Mukhtar Museum, June 2010.
- General Exhibition of Fine Arts, session (34) 2012.
- General Fine Arts Exhibition, session (38), May 2016.
- General Fine Arts Exhibition, session (39), September 2017.
- General Fine Arts Exhibition, session (42), August 2021.

International group exhibitions/overseas exhibitions

- Athens Biennale, Spain, 1972.
- French Portrait Competition 1972.

Literature and cultural activities

He participated in the only Southeast Asian Children’s Conference from the continent of Africa.
He directed more than twenty series for children.
He wrote a script and directed more than fifty documentary films about Egyptian artists.
- More than fifty visual artists participated in creating his 2000 paintings.
He made a documentary film about the first symposium under the name (Echo of the River). This film won the Golden Award at the Sixth Radio and Television Festival, which is about the Sculpture Festival in Aswan.
He held several seminars on documentary films in Alexandria and Luxor under the name of artists from Egypt.
He made a film about the uprising under the name (The Years of This Faithful Country) in 2002.
He presented 60 documentary films about the contemporary plastic movement, the most recent of which was Mukhtar Misr 2008.

Local awards

- First prize in the Tenth Vanguards Exhibition (Fine Arts Lovers Association) 1969 - Cairo.
He won ten awards for directing, including the Creativity Award in 2000.
He won more than 15 local and international awards as a director, puppet designer and animator.

Special collectibles

- For some individuals.

Official collectibles

- Museum of Modern Egyptian Art.
- National Art Museum.