Artist Info
Ahmed Moustafa
Ahmed Moustafa (1943-) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture at the Department of Painting and Stage Design of Alexandria University in 1961.
He was a full-time lecturer on composition and technology in painting, and stage design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria University, until 1974, when he was granted sabbatical leave as an Egyptian delegate for Special Advanced Studies in Printmaking at the Central School of Art & Design, gaining an MA in Graphic Design in 1978. That same year he was awarded a grant by the British Council to continue research work for a PhD thesis on "The Scientific Foundation of Arabic Letter Shapes", again at the Central School of Art & Design, in collaboration with the British Museum. While at Central School he was a part-time lecturer on Arabic Penmanship.
In 1980 Ahmed completed an M. Phil, researching the true significance of the term "proportioned script" (al Khatt al-Mansub, Ibn Muqla – 272-328AH/886-940AD).
Since 1994 he has been Visiting Professor at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture, Visual Islamic and Traditional Arts Department and Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, School of Languages. In 1998 he was appointed a Fellow in Islamic Art and Design at the Centre for Islamic Studies, Oxford.
He has exhibited at the at the Royal Academy, Central School of Art and Design, the Embankment Gallery and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, and Al 'Ain University, United Arab Emirates, the Musee Rath in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana in the Vatican.