Youssef Ragheb is an Egyptian visual artist and art professor with a special interest in drawing, sequential pictorial narratives and a conceptual research based approach to visual expression.
Academic Career
- -1975 Born in Cairo, Egypt.
- -1998 Graduated from the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University with a Grade of Excellent and Honors.
- -2003 Acquired his MA in Art Education with his thesis on “The Potentialities of Sequential Art in Enriching Expression in Painting”.
- -2008 Acquired his PhD in art Education with his thesis on “The Philosophical Concept of Interactive Art as an Approach for Teaching Art Education”.
- -2020 Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University.
- – 2006 – today, An Affiliate Adjunct Faculty in the Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo.
- -Courses taught at AUC: Drawing, Art Foundations, Painting, Comics and Sequential Art, Foundations of Design, Introduction to Illustration, and Analogue and digital Practices.
Career as a Freelance Illustrator
- -1995 – 2011. Illustrated numerous books/ publications as a Freelance Illustrator/Cartoonist.
- Worked with many local and international Publishing Houses and Multimedia Design Groups, including Longman Publishing House, Cambridge Press Publications, among many others.
- -1996 – 2002 Illustrated numerous Story Boards and layouts for many Award Winning Animated features for the Egyptian TV.
- -1998 Freelance Comic Strip artist for several publishers.
- Solo Exhibitions
- -2020 Experiments in Visual narrative – Faculty of Art Education
- -2019 Smells Like Teen Spirit- SOMA contemporary art gallery – Zamalek.
- -2018 Full Fathom Five – SOMA contemporary art gallery- Zamalek.
- Group Exhibitions
- – 2020 Alternatively Yours – SOMA Contemporary Art Gallery- Zamalek.
- – 2020 DOTS by Art D’Egypte – Kodak Passageway – Downtown Cairo.
- -2019 Faculty of the Drawing and Painting Department – Ebdaa Art Gallery- Zamalek.
- -2019 Tahrir Cultural Center TCC Collective exhibition – Downtown Cairo.
- -2018 Bibliotheca Alexandrina 8th International Artist’s Book Biennale.
- -2008 “Fresh Cream” Exhibition – Sharjah Gallery – AUC.
- -2007“Occidentalism” exhibition by Karim Frnacis- Hotel Suisse- Downtown Cairo “Interactive Installation”.
- -2006 Alliance Française bande dessinée et Caricature Exhibition.
- -2002 Higher Institute for Applied Arts Exhibition-Münster-Germany.
- – 1995 – 2002 Many local and international exhibitions since 1995
- Workshops
- -2018 Ink Drawing techniques workshop at SOMA art school and gallery.
- -2018 Ink Drawing techniques workshop at SOMA art school and gallery.
- -2019 Experimental Visual Narrative workshop at SOMA art school and gallery.
- – 2003-2010 Conducted seven annual experimental workshops on the history, theory and contemporary techniques of Comics and Sequential Art in the Faculty of Art Education.
- Public Lectures:
-2002 A public lecture on Contemporary Egyptian Art in the Higher Institute for Applied Arts Exhibition-Münster-Germany.
-2005 A public lecture on Modern Egyptian Art in the Rortary Foundation – Ontario, Canada – New York, USA. - -2018 Artist talk on the solo show “Full Fathom Five” at SOMA art gallery.
- -2019 Artist talk on the solo show “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at SOMA art gallery.
- -2020 Artist talk on the solo show “Smells Like Teen Spirit” at the San Bernardino Art College.
- -2023 A public lecture on Modern Egyptian Art Pioneers as Coptic Iconographers -The Institute of Coptic Studies.
- Committees and Panels:
-2008 A member of the First Media Art Festival Jury – Passage 35 – Cairo.
– 2010 A member of the 21st Salon of Youth Jury – Cairo. - Acquisitions
- -Acquisitions by the Ministry of Culture – Egypt.
-Acquisitions in private collections locally and abroad.