Prof. Dr. Mervat Hassan EL- Swify 

• Bachelor's degree in Art Education, 1973. 

• Scholarship in Yugoslavia 1991. 

• Master's degree in art education, 1993. 

• Ph.D. in Art Education philosophy (Ceramics Department) 1996. 

• Professor at the faculty of Art Education since 200. 

• Assistant professor at Qatar University from 2001 to 2006. 

• Member of the Syndicate of Plastic Art.

 • Member of the International Critics Association (ICA). General Exhibitions: 

• Participated in the first general ceramics exhibition in 1988. 

• Represented Egypt at the Zagreb Biennale in Yugoslavia in 1987.

 • Exhibition of Creative Women Artists –Rome -1989. 

 • Biennale of small pieces at the Milanovitch, Yugoslavia, in 1992. 

• Configura Exhibition in Germany 1994. 

• International Cairo Biennale of ceramics 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 

• Egyptian women artists exhibition in the Egyptian modern art museum, 1995. 

• General Exhibitions in Qatar from 2001 to 2006

. • Festival of contemporary Egyptian women artists' creations 2004. 

• Contemporary Egyptian Ceramics Panorama in Bibliotheca Alexandria 2005.

 • National exhibition of plastic art since its beginning till 2018.

 • Art of pottery exhibition in Saad Zagloul Museum, 2008. 

• Agenda exhibition in Alexandria until 2014. Private Exhibitions : 

• Rehany Palace in 1973 

• Dar el Fonon in Saudi Arabia, 1980, Art gallery of Cairo Opera House, 1989. 

• National Museum of Applied Art in Yugoslavia, 1992. 

• Extra gallery and the international cultural cooperation centre, in 1994 

• EgyptiaAcademymy in Rome 194. 

• Syndicate of plastic art, 1997, and Extra Gallery, 1998.

 • Art appreciation palace in Sidi Gaber – Alexandria- 1999. 

• International cultural cooperation center -2000, 2008. 

• Qatar University Gallery 2004. 

• Art center gallery –hall 5, Garage and garden 2005 

• Horus Hall Faculty of Art Education – 2006. 

• Le Meredian resort- Dahab – 2009

• The current interactions and expressions, Extra gallery -2011. 

• Return of soul – El Bab gallery

- Egyptian Modern Art museum 
-2014 Prizes: 

• Pioneer exhibition 1973. 

• Art& Revolution exhibition 1973 1974.

 • The Jury prize at the Milanovitch Biennale of Ceramics 1991. 

• The jury prize at the 1st Cairo triennale of ceramics 1992. 

• Biennale prize at the 2nd Cairo biennale of ceramics 1994.

 • Grand prize at the 3rd Cairo biennale of ceramics 1996.

 • Encouraging award in ceramics from the Ministry of Culture. 

Collections:

 • Collections of the Egyptian Contemporary Art Museum and the Egyptian Ceramics Museum.

 • Collections of the Titograd Museum 

– Yugoslavia .

 • Private collections in Italy , Canada , Saudi Arabia , Yugoslavia , Norway, Qatar.

 Cultural activities:

 • She wrote articles about contemporary Egyptian Ceramics in the monthly magazine ( Egypt Today), English and French editions- edition 27 -1995. 

 • Also an Article about child creativity – edition 29- 1995. 

• And an article about the artist Ali Nabeel Wahba – Edition 31-1995 

• An article about the children's workshops at the Egyptian Contemporary Art Museum in the same edition. 

• She is the author of two books about ceramics : 

1- Tendencies of contemporary Egyptian ceramics 

2- The sculptural Ceramics through technology and aesthetics of Modern Ceramics. 

• Member of the Jury of the 11th YouthSalon 1999. 

• Research published in the international seminar of the Visual Art Center, atar, 20042005. 

• Organized workshops for the Youth Artists at the Fostat ceramics center in 200 and 2006.

 • Organized Ceramics workshop at Le Meredian Resort in Dahab -2009. 

• Organized and supervised the 1st,2nd, 3rd, and 4th international symposium of ceramics in the art education faculty, Helwan University, in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

 • Organized and supervised the 1st international symposium of ceramics in iTunis village (Fayoum), 2018

 • Participated in the Nile Salsabil workshop for art in Aswan, 2018