Emad Abo Grain - Egypt

Visual artist and theatrical set and costume designer; Emad Abo

Grain co founded Bidayat Group for the Arts in Assiout in Upper

Egypt in 2009. He launched an initiative to establish the Million

Artists Creativity Center in 2012.

He holds a B.A. degree in art education in the Faculty of Special

Education of Assiout University. After graduating, he worked

as an art education teacher, but in 2004 he resigned so that he

could devote himself entirely to art. He took part in a number of

group exhibitions featuring painting, photography, installations

and physical performance. At the same time, he created set and

costume designs for several theatrical performances.

In 2009 he started a series of artistic ventures, with children and

ordinary people in the street as their intended recipients. Most of

these took place in Assiout city or nearby towns and villages.