Tiana Kader (she/they), born in France in 1997, is a French-Malagasy visual artist based in Alexandria, Egypt since 2021. Their work focuses on notions of memory and oblivion, idleness, and shared identities through living archives and sensitive documentary. Their collections of images, mainly drawings but also other media such as printmaking, collage, and animated video, are part of a research and creation process that they have been developing for the last four years. Their practice is often experimental and improvised, and they enjoy telling stories, often their own, with a raw and cynical sensibility.
They studied cinema and visual arts at university for 8 years between France, Canada, and Egypt. In 2022, Tiana graduated from the Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne with a Master’s degree in research and creation in contemporary art and now works as an illustrator.
Since 2019, they have presented their works in several group exhibitions, festivals, and public screenings in France and Egypt, and is currently preparing for their first solo show in 2024.
Exhibitions & Screenings
upcoming
Bouts de carnet
Solo show
Digital illustrations
Collective exhibition Cairoprints 5 - Cairopolitan (Cairo)
2024
Madinet El-Nafoura - Drawings, poetry, installation
Collective exhibition - Wekalet Behna (Alexandria)
The Analog dreamer - Comic, drawing
Collective exhibition in Comixandria Festival vol. 2 - Jesuits Cultural Center (Alexandria)
2023
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition SOS - Darb1718 (Cairo)
Under the dust - Comic, drawing
Collective exhibition in Comixandria Festival vol. 1 - Museum of Fine Arts (Alexandria)
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition Frenzied - Bibliotek Gallery (Sheikh Zayed)
Digital illustrations
Collective exhibition Cairoprints 4 - Cairopolitan (Cairo)
2022
Les Bercés - Linocut
Collective exhibition Alexandria Today - 6BabSharq (Alexandria)
Du plaisir de se tourner les pouces - Animated short-film
Public screenings in Cinéma Christine21 in 2021 and at Sorbonne Short Film Festival in 2021 and 2022 (Paris)
2021
Paris, banlieues vues du ciel - Illustration
Collective exhibition Cycle à vol d’oiseau - Parc de la Brèche (Créteil)
Postcards from my mind - Ink drawings
Collective exhibition Fréquence - L’Impasse (Paris)
Le Porte-manteau - Installation, photographs, textile
Collective exhibition (In)errance 2 - Sorbonne (Paris)
Residencies & Prizes
2024
Fellowship program in Wekalet Behna with the interdisciplinary project Madinet El Nafoura
2021
Jury’s Favorite Award for Du plaisir de se tourner les pouces in the Sorbonne Short Film Festival (Paris)
2019
Poetry Award for Charlotte at the Inter-University Comics Contest (Montreal)