Marwa Elshazly, born in 1983, is a contemporary Egyptian artist and painter who lives and works in Cairo. Elshazly received her Bachelor degree in 2006 from the Faculty of Fine Arts. She obtained her Master’s degree in 2011. Elshazly has also earned her PHD in philosophy of arts in 2015. She worked as a teacher of drawing and painting at Al-Ahram Canadian University and New Giza University. She is currently working as a teacher in the painting Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University. Elshazly participated in different exhibitions and cultural events, and received many artistic grants and residencies, including an academic exchange grant from the University of Warsaw. She also won several awards, including the Youth Salon Award for Painting. El-Shazly participated in many exhibitions in Egypt, Jordan, France, Italy, Hungary, Poland and Canada, and her works were acquired by museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Minya, and institutions including the Library of Alexandria, as well as in private collections.
Marwa El-Shazly constantly strives to achieve stability and perfection on the surface of her paintings. In her own experience, she resorts to abstraction, in an attempt to achieve the balance between the bustle of colors, shapes, textures and different energies. Her desire to control all these contradictions is the cornerstone of her creative process of creating pictorial worlds full of turbulent, incomplete and immature elements, ultimately arriving at a stable and balanced pictorial structure.