Nazli Madkour was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1949, where she lives and works. She holds a master’s degree in Political Economy from the American University in Cairo. Since 1982 she has had over 35 solo shows and took part in numerous collective exhibitions in Egypt and abroad where her works have been acquired by numerous private and

public collections. Madkour is the author of the book “Women and Art in Egypt “(in Arabic, 1989

and in English, 1993). She also illustrated a deluxe edition of Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz book "Arabian Days and Nights" published by the "Limited Editions Club" in New York in 2005.

Her works fall between abstraction and figuration exploring an inner world inspired from nature and women. Her sources are predominantly local and her aesthetic language universal.