Discover original paintings, mixed-media works and prints by Toronto-based contemporary figurative artist Miral Mokhtar, exploring identity, memory, vulnerability and survival. MIRAL MOKHTAR ART FOR PEOPLE Art made from life, people, nature, memory and the things we all feel.

View the artist CV of Miral Mokhtar, a Toronto-based contemporary figurative artist, including selected exhibitions, awards, public art, press, education and professional experience. MIRAL MOKHTAR Download CV View Available Works Contemporary Figurative Artist Toronto, Ontario, Canada miralmokhtar.com | Instagram @miralmokhtar SELECTED ARTIST CV ARTISTIC PRACTICE Miral Mokhtar is a Toronto-based contemporary figurative artist working across painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, collage, textile intervention and public art. Using the human figure as a psychological landscape, Mokhtar explores vulnerability, memory, identity, survival, cultural inheritance and the psychological tensions carried beneath what is visible. Developed across Egypt and Canada, her practice draws on visual art, documentary photography, observational drawing, Arabic calligraphy and psychology. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Oct 3, 2026 — GLOW! Nuit Blanche Night Market Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Sep 19–20, 2026 — ArtWorks 2026 Arts on the Credit, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada | Juried Art Show · Featured Fine Artist · Associated Arts on the Credit Virtual Gallery Exhibition | Featured artwork: Shelter of Becoming A Woman Made of Steel Jul 29–Sep 10, 2026 — Second Act: Emerging Artists Over 30 Arts Etobicoke, Storefront Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Featured Artist Jun 18–Jul 24, 2026 — Nurturing Nature Arts Etobicoke, Cloverdale Common, Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Group Exhibition 2026 — Times Square Digital Exhibition The Holy Art, Times Square, New York City, USA 2018 — Chouftouhonna International Feminist Art Festival Tunis, Tunisia | Remote Participation 2017 — Chouftouhonna International Feminist Art Festival Tunis, Tunisia | Participating Artist Apr–May 2017 — Half Way Through the Thread Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt | Participating Artist | Exhibition examining contemporary Egyptian textile practices | Supported by the French Institute in Egypt 2017 — LOFT Gallery Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt | Exhibiting Artist 2017 — Excerpts of Heritage Sawy Cultural Wheel, Cairo, Egypt | Group Exhibition | Presented through Helwan University’s Art Education program 2016 — Art Art Collection November The GrEEK Campus, Cairo, Egypt | Exhibiting Artist 2014 — Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Egypt | Workshop Participant & Exhibiting Artist 2012 — Saint Vincent de Paul Exhibition Cairo, Egypt | Exhibiting Artist AWARDS & RECOGNITION 2023 — Humanitarian Award — George Brown College Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2020 — LensCulture Portrait Awards — Finalist 2020 — Cortona On The Move — Main Gallery / Selected Photographer 2015 — Climate Change Global Youth Photography Competition — Winner 2014 — Second Prize, Light Photography — Egyptian Shooting Club 2012 — Best Oil Painting — Saint Vincent de Paul COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS 2018 — Two Mural Commissions — Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt 2017 — Two Artworks Acquired through LOFT Gallery — Cairo, Egypt 2016 — Ceiling Mural Commission — Point 90 Mall, Cairo, Egypt SELECTED ARTISTIC PROJECTS 2021 — What We Carry With Us: Refugee Storylabs — Citizen Film / Frameline | Contributing Storyteller & Artist 2016 — Not From Here — Documentary Photography & Video Project | Co-Founder SELECTED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 2024 — HEAL Program 2018 — UN Women HerStory Initiative 2017 — Euro-Med Summer Universities — Tarbes, France | Art Diversity Workshop Facilitator & Participant SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2024–Present — Independent Artist / Studio Practice — Toronto, Ontario, Canada Creates original figurative paintings, mixed-media works, photography, commissions, exhibitions and independent artist-led projects. 2016–2019 — Photographer & Videographer for Nawal El Saadawi and DAAL Center — Cairo, Egypt Produced photographic and video documentation for Egyptian writer and physician Nawal El Saadawi and DAAL Center. 2016–2018 — Tourism & Travel Photographer — Egypt 2016 — Art Teacher — Cairo, Egypt Provided art instruction in French and art-history activities for children, including children with disabilities. 2015–2016 — Assistant Director & Mural Art Contributor — Cactus Flower — Egypt Worked as an assistant director and collaborated with the film’s art director in creating a mural for the production, contributing directly to its visual environment and set design. 2015 — Co-Founder — Independent Photography Studio — Cairo, Egypt ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT & MENTORSHIP 2014–2016 — El Lakta El Wahda Artists Group (The Single Shot Artists Group) — Cairo, Egypt | Member Participated in observational drawing and painting throughout Cairo with an artists’ collective founded and supervised by Dr. Abdel Aziz El-Gendy, Egyptian visual artist and Professor of Graphic Arts at Helwan University’s Faculty of Fine Arts. 2011 — Early Art Mentorship — Cairo, EgyptReceived direct artistic instruction from an Egyptian painter, illustrator and art educator known for illustrating works by major Arab writers, including Nobel Prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz. Drawing & Watercolor Workshops — American University in Cairo, Tahrir Square Campus — Cairo, Egypt Training in observational drawing, watercolor and works on paper. SELECTED ART PRESS 2026 — Artist Closeup — Featured Artist Interview 2017 — Egypt Today — Exhibition Feature 2017 — Women of Egypt — Artist Profile 2016 — Scoop Empire — Feature on Not From Here EDUCATION 2024–Present Bachelor of Arts in Psychology — Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2014–2017 University Studies in Art Education — Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt 2015–2017 Arabic Calligraphy Studies — Cairo, Egypt 2016–2017 Independent Fine Arts Studies — Cairo, Egypt SELECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2022 — Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Early Trauma — Certificate of Achievement West Midlands Violence Prevention Alliance, United Kingdom 2022 — Indigenous Perspectives of Healing From PTSD — Certificate of Participation Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Western University, Canada 2022 — Online Training Initiative to Address Human Trafficking — Certificate of Completion MCIS Language Solutions, funded by the Government of Ontario, Canada 2016 — Active Citizens Programme — British Council ONLINE Official Website:miralmokhtar.com Instagram:miralmokhtarart TikTok:miralmokhtar0 YouTube:miralmokhtarart

Miral Mokhtar is a Toronto-based contemporary figurative and mixed media artist whose paintings explore memory, identity, displacement, emotional survival, and psychological fragmentation through expressive color, layered imagery, and symbolic forms. About Miral Mokhtar CLICK HERE TO SEE MY CV New Page New Page New Link 关于 New Page 接触 Search Results I make art about what people carry but cannot always show. I’m Miral Mokhtar, a contemporary artist based in Toronto. My work explores the human figure through memory, vulnerability, identity, survival, psychological tension, and the pressures that shape us. Faces and bodies return throughout my practice. I’m interested in the space between what is visible and what is felt between the person we present to the world and everything that may be happening underneath. I work across painting, drawing, and mixed media, allowing materials, marks, texture, distortion, and accident to become part of the work. I don’t need every image to feel polished or completely resolved. Sometimes an imperfect mark says more than a perfect one. Alongside my art practice, I study Mental Health and arts education. It deepens art skills and my curiosity about human behaviour, memory, emotion, relationships, identity, and the ways people adapt to what they experience. I don’t want to tell the viewer exactly what to see. I want the work to leave enough space for another person to enter it with their own memories, questions, and feelings. My practice continues to change as I do. I follow curiosity, observation, experimentation, and the things I still don’t fully understand. Above all, I’m grateful to God for the ability to create, learn, and continue. Thank you for spending time with my work. Miral Mokhtar Toronto, Canada

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Explore original contemporary figurative paintings, mixed-media artworks and art prints by Toronto-based artist Miral Mokhtar, exploring identity, memory, vulnerability, survival and psychological experience. Selected Artworks Collections The Blue Between Us Load More Artworks Load More