Jamal Bassiouni was born in 1993 in Alexandria, the storied city where the desert meets the sea and ancient myths still whisper through the streets. His journey as an artist began in this luminous city, where sky and stone seem to speak in color. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria with the highest honors, Bassiouni’s early work already revealed an acute sensitivity to chromatic harmony. His graduation project, devoted to the complex relationships between colors and their role in shaping modern art, marked the beginning of a lifelong dialogue between form, emotion, and history.

With a Master of Fine Arts in Oil Painting and Drawing, obtained in 2019, Bassiouni turned his gaze deeper into the past, grounding his thesis in the visual beliefs of Ancient Egypt. For him, painting is not merely the act of applying pigment to surface, but an act of remembrance, a resurrection of symbols that still breathe beneath the surface of modern consciousness. His brush becomes a conduit between worlds, reviving gestures long buried beneath the sands of time and offering them to the present with reverence and wonder.

Jamal’s presence on the contemporary art scene emerged early, nurtured through his participation in Egypt’s Youth Salons and General Salons under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture. These spaces allowed his work to unfold in public view, where its poetic rigor and layered symbolism began to resonate with a broader audience. In 2014, he crossed the Mediterranean to join a videography workshop at the École Supérieure d’Art in Aix-en-Provence, expanding his practice into moving image. A year later, he represented Egypt at the Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, adding his voice to a generation of artists weaving threads across continents and histories.

Now based once more in Alexandria, Jamal Bassiouni continues to cultivate his art close to the source of his inspiration. At the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, he leads workshops and training programs for the next wave of young artists, passing on not only technique but a sense of devotion to the unseen forces that shape artistic vision. His studio, much like his painting, is a threshold between myth and memory, between craft and contemplation.

Jamal paints as others might pray or dream, his canvases filled with the echo of ancient walls and the breath of new mornings. In each work, there is a delicate balance between silence and intensity, a stillness that vibrates with meaning. His art reminds us that time is not a straight line but a spiral, that in looking back we often see more clearly where we are going.