BIO

Ebtihal Shedid is an Egyptian artist based in San Francisco. Shedid has an MA in Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany and a BA in German Studies from Cairo University, Egypt. Between 2006 and 2016, Shedid has been working as a drama and literature translator, in addition to theater production. Shedid is self taught and has been working professionally as a photographer since 2016. She recently graduated with an MFA from California College of the Arts. She joined the SFAS community in Fall of 2020.


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STATEMENT

My work is photo-based and is in conversation with sculpture, collage and installation. Coming from a background of linguistics, translation and intercultural communication, I am interested in topics related to how language shapes the way we see, storytelling and the idea of home, belonging and attachment.