Born in Kafr El Sheikh in 1951, Abdel Wahab Abdel Mohsen graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in 1976 and went onto pursue a prolific career in visual arts. Today he is considered to be an icon of the Egyptian visual arts scene. His work has been extensively exhibited in local and prestigious international galleries, including Switzerland, France, Italy, Norway, Turkey, Poland, Yugoslavia, Spain and Japan, to name a few. His paintings are part of a permanent collection at the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art in Cairo. He was a member of the Supreme Council for Culture's Commission on Fine Arts in 2001, 2003 and 2006 respectively. Abdel Mohsen's romantic view of the Nile Delta features predominantly in his art work, where he creates colored relief carvings on large blocks of wood. In each exhibition, he reveals a facet of nature as a source of inspiration for his art: lakes, flocks of flamingos, waves, sand dunes and clumps of grass are the elements of his world, whether in abstract or representative art.
