Heba Y. Amin

Heba Y. Amin (born 1980 in Cairo, lives and works in Berlin) is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and lecturer. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, the curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal, and one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series Homeland which received worldwide media attention. Amin has had recent exhibitions at the 10th Berlin Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennale, MAXXI Rome, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Kalmar Art Museum Sweden, La Villette Paris, FACT Liverpool, Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Berlin Berlinale 9th Forum Expanded Exhibition, and the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.