Mahmoud Mostafa is an Arabic calligrapher and visual artist born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1993. He started practicing Arabic calligraphy at a very young age. After graduating from the Faculty of Engineering and getting a diploma in Arabic calligraphy, he decided to fully devote his life and career to his art.
Today, in addition to his creative work, M. Mostafa is working as a calligraphy instructor. He has won several international prizes in calligraphy and has exhibited in numerous local and international exhibitions, like the Sharjah Calligraphy Biennal in the UAE, in America, Russia, and Germany.
Through his work, Mahmoud Mostafa aims to open the multi-secular art of calligraphy to modernity and confront tradition and contemporary art. Persuaded that aesthetic emotion can be universally shared, he tries to overcome cultural boundaries to reveal the transcendental beauty of calligraphy
EXHIBITIONS
- France – Paris – Cité Internationale des Arts – L’heure la plus sombre – 2024
- USA – San Fransisco Library – Calligraphies in conversation 4th Exhibition – 2017
- United Arab Emirates – Sharjah – Calligraphy Biennal of Sharjah – 2014, 2016, 2018 & 2022
- Russia – Yekaterinburg – Project of Masha Writes Exhibition – 2018
- Egypt – Cairo – 1st International Festival for Arabic Calligraphy – 2013
ART RESIDENCIES
- France – Paris – Cité Internationale des Arts – April – July 2024
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – Medinah – Dar al-Qalam – August – October 2024
AWARDS
- 3rd Prize in Arabic Calligraphy Divan Award for Calligraphy – Germany – 2019
- 1st Prize in Arabic Calligraphy – Ministry of Youth National Egyptian Universities Competition – Egypt – 2016
- 1st Prize in Arabic Calligraphy for High School Students of Alexandria – Egypt – 2010
MAHMOUD MOSTAFA 