Nada Baraka’s practice encompasses painting and installation, unfolding as an immediate, visceral response to external stimuli. In her work, she creates surreal environments shaped by absurdity and psychic transformation.

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Biography

Nada Baraka (b. Cairo, 1990) is an Egyptian painter who holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA in Visual Arts from the American University in Cairo. 

Her works have been exhibited in institutions across Cairo, London, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Paris, Lisbon, and Dubai. Selected solo and duo shows include: Across a Velvet Horizon, Tabari Art Space, Dubai (2025); Land of Sequels, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2021); and Cosmic Truths and Tales to be Told, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2018). 

 

In 2023, Baraka received the Anna Award from Latitudes Online, and received the Apex Art grant for her group exhibition, Valley of Walls in 2023

Exhibitions

Vela Projects presents Mount Analogue, the gallery’s first group exhibition, featuring work by Nada Baraka, Cheryl Traub-Adler, Samuel Moscou, and Tzung Hui Lauren Lee.

The title is borrowed from Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing by René Daumal. The unfinished novel follows a group of explorer – philosophers who seek to discover Mount Analogue, a mythical mountain, a bridge between heaven and earth.

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