Hashim Nasr

Soudanese. Born in 1990 in Khartoum, Sudan.

Hashim Nasr is a self-taught visual artist and photographer currently based in Alexandria, Egypt. His practice combines surrealist and conceptual approaches, often blending portraiture with symbolic props, flowers, fabrics, and vibrant colors.

Hashim Nasr’s work explores themes of heritage, identity, memory, and the emotional complexities of exile, while also reflecting on issues of gender equality, diversity, ageing, and the subconscious. Deeply influenced by his Sudanese roots, he reimagines childhood memories through dreamlike visuals that reconnect him with his cultural background. His distinctive use of cones, the color blue, and natural elements evokes both nostalgia and surrealism.

Driven by an eagerness to create new stories, often using just his mobile phone, Nasr crafts imagery that merges editorial aesthetics with poetic reflections on the self and society, set against the backdrop of Sudan’s political and economic challenges.

ART FAIRS

2023

• Points of resonance, Intra-African Trade Fair, Cairo, Egypt

• Africa Photo Fair, Abidjan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

• Points of resonance, The African Center, New York, United States .

• FNB art fair open city, Uncanny, South Africa.

• “Through the window” sees fire, Istanbul, Turkey.

• SARD IV, Alexandria Photo Week, Egypt.

2023

• Cartwheels of estrangement, Alliance Française Nairobi, Kenya.

• The gold of grandmothers, Goethe Institute, Cologne, Germany.

• Women and the state, Downtown Gallery, Khartoum, Sudan.

• SARD III, Cairo Photo Week, Cairo, Egypt.