Mona Refaat is an Egyptian visual artist, born in Cairo in 1987. She currently holds the position of lecturer in the Department of Oil Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts. She obtained her master’s degree in Painting in 2015, followed by a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Painting in 2022.
Since 2007, Mona has been actively contributing to the visual arts scene through wide participation in both local and international group exhibitions. Among the most notable are the “Agenda” exhibitions at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina across multiple editions, the Vernice Art Fair in Italy, the “Empowerment Through Art” Forum at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, the “Colores from the Nile and the Tiber” exhibition at the Italian Cultural Centre, and the Zamalek Art Exhibition for Arab Artists.
She has also presented her artistic experience in distinguished solo exhibitions, most notably "Compositions" in 2019, and a special exhibition in collaboration with the Turkish Embassy in 2023 to commemorate Prince Qadriya. She received first place at the Second Fine Arts Forum for Egyptian Universities and the Grand Prize at the Second Arab Youth Festival by Di Gallery in 2018. Her works are part of several private collections, in addition to an official acquisition by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture—her painting "Al-Henna" has been housed in the Museum of Modern Art since 2017.
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