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EMNA ZGHAL

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Lives and works in New York FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
2004 2003 2002 1996 - 98 1995 1994	Artist In Residence, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ Fellowship, Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Gilroy Roberts Scholarship. PAFA, Philadelphia, PA First Prize of the City of Tunis, TUNISIA Fellowship residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE President of the Republic’s Prize for the Best Young Artist, TUNISIA 1993 Fellowship residency, Centre des Arts Vivants, Radès, TUNISIA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 2003 2002 2000 1999 1996 1995 1994 1993	'Recent Paintings & Prints', dm contemporary, Mill Neck, NY Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis, TUNISIA The Prophet of Black Folk, Alwan for the Arts, New York, NY The Scene Gallery, New York, NY Lock Haven University, PA Embassy of Tunisia, Washington, DC Galerie d’Art Essaadi, Carthage, TUNISIA Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE Musée de Sidi bou Said, TUNISIA Sparkasse, Marburg-Biedenkopf, GERMANY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1992	Artists In Residence, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Dumba Art Collective, Brooklyn, NY Space And Surface Painting, Gallery Korea, New York, NY Contemporary Art From the Ancient World, Saint John the Devine, New York, NY. curator: O. Abusitta Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA One Center, New York, NY Dolan Center, Locust Valley, NY Poetry and Paintings, National Arts Club, New York, NY Dreaming of Carthage, Park Creek Gallery, Washington, DC Unbearables Festival, Fire Patrol No5 Gallery, New York 8th Artists of the Second District LMCC, Federal Reserve Bank, New York, NY Progress of the World’s Women an international art exhibition sponsored by the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Museum of Women,United Nations, New York, NY National Summit on Africa Convention Center, Washington, DC Contemporary Tunisian Painting, World Space Corporation,Washington, DC Desho No Tomodachi Desu, 505 Gallery, Washington, DC. Graduate Thesis Exhibition, PAFA Museum, Philadelphia, PA Dieci anni di giovane pittura Tunisina Bari, ITALY Artistry Across the Waters, Washington, DC Third Street Gallery, Second Juried Show, Philadelphia, PA Juror Elisabeth Osborne –Awarded Second Prize- The New Delhi Triennial, INDIA Two Emerging Artists, Manayunk Art Center, Philadelphia, PA Tunisian Fine Arts in the Last Decade Galerie Yahia, Tunis, TUNISIA Welcome to the Cruel World, a show about ecology, Espace d’Art Milles Feuilles, La Marsa,TUNISIA Union of Tunisian Fine Artists Annual Show, Tunis, TUNISIA Kuwait Biennial, Kuwait City Salon of the City of Tunis’ Prize, Galerie Yahia, TUNISIA Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FRANCE Contemporary Tunisian Art, traveling show in TUNISIA Salon d’Automne de la Marsa, TUNISIA The Washi Art Association, Tokyo, JAPAN Galerie Driba, La Marsa, TUNISIA Young Tunisian Fine Artists, Galerie Yahia, Tunis, TUNISIA Musée de Sidi Bou Said, TUNISIA Galerie La Kasbah, Sfax, TUNISIA Clin d’Œil Plastik, Homage for Women in the Arts & Crafts, Hammamet, TUNISIA
PUBLICATIONS
2004 2003 2002 1998 1997 1995 1992	AL JADID Magazine, Los Angeles, CA Fence Magazine, New York, NY Charley Magazine, New York, NY Anthropology News, Arlington, VA Artistry Across the Waters, Washington, DC Dieci anni di giovane pittura Tunisina, Bari, ITALY Tunisian Fine Arts in the Last Decade. Tunis, TUNISIA Agip Oil Company, Calendar & Agenda, Rome, ITALY Clin d’Œil Plastik, Catalog, Tunis, TUNISIA
REVIEWS
	Adra Najwa, Hybrid Vigor: The Art of Emna Zghal Al Jadid Magazine, Los Angeles, CA,2004 Hachmi Ghacham , Les Perfections sont-elles parfaites, Le Temps,TUNISIA, 2004 Alia Hamza, En Art il est bien de se perdre quleques fois, La Presse, Tunis, TUNISIA, 2004 Holland Cotter, Art Listing, The New York Times, 2003 Edward J. Sozanski, Art Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, 2002 Piri Halasz, From the Mayor’s Doorstep, Online Magazine, 2002 Kim Levin, Voice Choices, Village Voice, 2002 Roberta Smith, A Profusion of Painting, Very Much Alive, New York Times, 2002 Helen Harrison, Art Review, New York Times. 2002 Alia Hamza, La Culture et les Arts à la conquête du nouveau monde, La Presse, Tunis, TUNISIA. 2000 Fathi Chargui, Chercheuse d’Art, Le Temps, Tunis, TUNISIA. 1996 Fathi Chargui , Foisonnement aux intensités diverses, Le Temps, Tunis, TUNISIA 1995 Mohamed El Hadef, First Prize to the Young Painter Emna Zghal, El Sahafah, Tunis, TUNISIA 1995 La Lettre Des Musiques et Des Arts Africains, Forêt Rose, Paris, FRANCE 1995 Chamkhi Khanfir, Sonia, Le geste liberateur, La Presse, Tunis, TUNISIA 1995
EDUCATION
2004 1999 1992	Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, ME MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA BA, École Des Beaux Arts, Tunis, Tunisia
PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
	Amen Bank, Tunis, TUNISIA Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/NY-Public Library, New York, NY Pfizer, Inc. New York, NY Thomas and Associates, New York, NY Haffeys Architects, New York, NY M.Hage Architects, New York, NY Lock Haven University, PA Agip, Rome, ITALY City of Tunis, TUNISIA Tunisair, Paris, FRANCE Tunisian Ministry of Culture. TUNISIA Tunisian Ministry of Youth. TUNISIA