Kholeif, Omar

Kholeif, Omar (2026) Double Fantasy: Learning, Living and Loving with Ibrahim Massouda: A Surrealist Egyptian Story? In: The Color and Lyricism of Alberto Massuda. Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil, pp. 140-149.

Kholeif, Omar (2026) Accumulating Vocabularies: Parsing Through Otobong Nkanga’s Aesthetic Language. NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 58. ISSN Print: 1075-7163; Online: 2152-7792

Kholeif, Omar (2025) Huguette Caland: imagine/otherwise. imagine/otherwise, 5 . Sternberg Press, London and MIT Press, MA, London, UK and Cambridge, MA.

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Kholeif, Omar (2025) RO U T I N G H O M E W I T H C A R L O S B U N G A. In: Carlos Bunga: Inhabit the Contradiction. Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Lenz Press, Milan and Distributed Art Publishers, New York, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 102-123. ISBN 9791280579928

Kholeif, Omar (2025) Finding My Blue Sky: The Search for Feeling in Art, Again. Lisson Grove, Lisson Gallery, Bell Street Galleries, 29th of May - 26th July 2025

Kholeif, Omar (2025) Light on Things / Ghosts Sheltering Beneath a Cloud of Entropy. Central Museum/Hartwig Art Foundation/Lanhuis Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands, 12 April - 26 October 2025

Kholeif, Omar (2025) Would it be okay if we told a story? Hoda Tawakol and Me. In: Hoda Tawakol: Some Ties Linger On. Kerber Verlag. ISBN 9783735610072

From Some Ties Linger On by Omar Kholeif

Kholeif, Omar (2025) Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day. MUDAM - The Modern Art Museum of Luxembourg, 7 March - 24 August 2025

Kholeif, Omar and Arundhati-Thomas, Skye (2025) The Mirror Has Two Faces. In: Lalitha Lajmi: imagine/otherwise. imagine/otherwise, 3 . The MIT Press and Sternberg Press, Cambridge MA and London, UK, pp. 1-96. ISBN 9781915609342

Kholeif, Omar (2025) Pictures, Windows, Portals, Lives: An Assembly of Critical Feelings. The Brooklyn Rail Foundation, Brooklyn, New York.

Kholeif, Omar (2024) Peter Sedgley: Orbiting an Enigma. The Redfern Gallery, London, United Kingdom. ISBN 9780948460906

Peter Sedgley: Orbiting an Enigma by Omar Kholeif

Kholeif, Omar (2024) Simone Fattal: Charting a Territory to take Flight. In: Simone Fattal: Suspension of Disbelief. IVAM: Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain. ISBN 9788448270377

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Kholeif, Omar and Himid, Lubaina (2024) Magda Stawarska: imagine/otherwise. imagine/otherwise, 2 . The MIT Press and Sternberg Press, Cambridge MA and London, UK. ISBN 9781915609298

Magda Stawarska: imagine/otherwise volume 2

Kholeif, Omar (2024) Nil Yalter: Circular Tension by Omar Kholeif. Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy. ISBN 9788867496297

Kholeif, Omar (2024) Drawing Time: Duets. Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, 4 May - 4 August 2024

Drawing Times Publication / Not Proofread

Kholeif, Omar (2024) Lubaina Himid: Do You Want an Easy Life? NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, 54 (2). pp. 6-23. ISSN Print: 1075-7163; Online: 2152-7792

Lubaina Himid: Do You Want an Easy Life? by Omar Kholeif

Kholeif, Omar (2024) All Things Unsettled, Remain. In: Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s. Sternberg Press; The MIT Press, artPost21, London, UK and Cambridge, MA, pp. 118-175. ISBN 9781915609212

All Things Unsettled, Remain / Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s

Kholeif, Omar (2024) EGYPTIAN CINEMA: Dreaming of a fugitive culture. In: Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema. Routledge, London, pp. 389-395. ISBN 9781032295336

Kholeif, Omar (2023) Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Plaited Time / Deep Water. Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Mureijah Square, UAE, 29 October 2023 - 29 January 2024

Plaited Time / Deep Water - Draft Exhibition Booklet

Kholeif, Omar (2023) Seeing with Hassan Sharif. In: The Art Library: Hassan Sharif. Discovering Arab Artists . Rizzoli New York, New York, USA, pp. 20-30. ISBN 9788891837738

Seeing with Hassan Sharif by Omar Kholeif

Kholeif, Omar (2023) Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs. Phaidon, London and New York. ISBN 9781838664077

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Kholeif, Omar (2023) I Can't Breathe: Black Life and the Metaverse. In: I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen. Delmonico Books, D.A.P, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, New York, USA, pp. 168-178. ISBN 9781636810959

I Can't Breathe: Black Visuality and the Metaverse

Kholeif, Omar (2023) Sonia Balassanian. imagine/otherwise, 1 . Sternberg Press and the MIT Press, Cambridge MA and London, UK. ISBN 9781915609076

Kholeif, Omar (2023) In the Heart of Another Country. Snoeck and Deichtorhallen, Cologne, Germany. ISBN 9783864423994

Kholeif, Omar (2022) Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence. The Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands, 29 November 2022 - 13 May 2023

Where Do Pictures Live? / Edited - Bonnefanten

Kholeif, Omar (2022) In the Heart of Another Country. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, and Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, 28 October 2022 - 12 September 2023

Kholeif, Omar (2022) Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Lives of Sonified Images. In: Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Sonic Image. Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, pp. 5-14.

Kholeif, Omar (2021) Where Do Pictures Live? In: Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence. Lenz Press, Milan, Italy, pp. 26-37. ISBN 9791280579010

Kholeif, Omar (2021) Reflecting on Reflections, Speculating on Speculating, All at Once. Groundings/Occasional Groundwork.

Reflecting on Reflections, Speculating on Speculating, All at Once by Omar Kholeif

Kholeif, Omar (2021) Unsettled Objects. The Flying Saucer, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE, 30 March -15 June 2021