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Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling. His work has been seen in a wide variety of art galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world. He is also the recipient of Foreign Policy's Global Thinker Award.

Egyptian born, he is now based in Houston, Texas.

"In Cairo, art has come to be regarded as such a dangerous weapon that, last week, a prominent artist was falsely accused of being a terrorist. The artist, Ganzeer, is one of the few agitators to have rendered Sisi, publishing an inflammatory portrait online. After Ganzeer’s collaboration in a global graffiti campaign against Sisi attracted the attention of the television host Osama Kamal, Kamal wrongly called Ganzeer a member of the Muslim Brotherhood—which was outlawed by the Egyptian state in December. Ganzeer’s tag is known from Cairo to Vienna, but he had previously remained anonymous. Nevertheless, the broadcaster aired a photo of him on the evening news, using his real name as a scare tactic. It was startling because the thirty-two-year-old graphic artist has produced a vitriolic body of work against Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. “Being anti-Sisi in itself is not a crime,” Ganzeer wrote on his blog. “So I guess Mr. Osama thought it necessary to attach a fictitious crime to my name.”

—New Yorker, "Picturing Egypt's Next President," Johnathan Guyer, May 22, 2014

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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

Boston Athenaeum

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Bucknell University

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Chapman University

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Colorado College

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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Harvard University, Fine Arts Library

The Booklyn Bridge #2

Library of Congress (LoC)

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts

Blam Blam: The Past is Cold

Smith College Museum of Art

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Stanford University

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

Swarthmore College

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

University of California, Berkeley (UCB), The Bancroft Library

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University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Blam Blam: The Past is Cold

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Blam Blam Blam Blam Blam

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

University of Colorado at Boulder

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

University of Connecticut (UCONN)

The Booklyn Bridge #1

University of Delaware Library

Superstition FreewayNothing is True, Everything is Permitted

University of Pittsburgh

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas

Washington University in St. Louis

Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

Wesleyan University, Olin Library

Armed by Design / El Diseño a las Armas