2011
- 9th Bamako Encounters, National Museum of Art, Mali - Reframing Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark - 8th Mercusol Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil - Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia, South Hill Park, Bracknel, UK - Miragem / Mirage,
 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janero, Brazil - East from 4°24': COLLECTIE XXVII, MuHKA Museum of Art, Antwerp, Belgium - Miragem / Mirage: Contemporary Art in the Islamic World, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paolo, Brazil - RESISTANCE(S) III: Arab Video Arts, Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey - Windows Upon Oceans, State Museum of contemporary art, Thessaloniki, Greece - Miragem / Mirage: Contemporary Art in the Islamic World, Museu Nacional do Conjunto Cultural da Republica, Brasilia, Brazil

2010
- 12th Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt - Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain - Miragem / Mirage,
 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janero, Brazil - Resistance(s) III, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy - Resistance(s) III, Casa Àrabe, Madrid, Spain - 3rd World Festival of Black Arts: Modernities + Resistances, Dakar, Senegal - CAVE: Contemporary Arab Video Encounter
, Maraya Arts Center, Sharjah, UAE - Tarjama/Translation, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
, Icatha, New York, USA - The Presidents: Remix, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland - What’s Happening Now?: Contemporary Art from Egypt, Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain - Fuck Ups, Fables & Fiascos, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany - IN/FLUX: Awkward Conversations, 17th African Film Festival, New Museum, NY, USA - Categorical Imperatives, The Guild Gallery, Bombay, India - Resistance(s) III, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

2009
- Tarjama / Translation, Queens Museum, New York, USA - 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece - Deconstructing Myths & Reality, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin, Germany - Icons Reloaded, Galerie ElyseeArts, Liege, Belgium - Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2008
- Borderlines, Le Violon Blue Gallery, London, UK - 3rd Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, China - Breaking News, F&A Projects, Paris, France - Cairoscape: Images, Imagination and Imaginary of a Contemporary Mega City, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany - Neighbours in Dialogue, Collegium Artisticum, Skenderija Centre, Sarajevo, Bosnia - Om Kalsoum la quatrième pyramide, Institut du Mode Arabe, Paris, France - Collectiepresentatie XXI, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium - Trilogie Méditerranéenne: From Athens to Marseille to Cairo, Palais des Arts, Marseille, France - Arab Artists Between Italy & the Mediterranean, Italian Cultural Institute, Damascus, Beirut & Cairo - Gates of the Mediterranean, Palazzo Piozzo Rivoli, Turin, Italy

2007
- Contact Zone, Bamako Museum of Art, Bamako, Mali - The Present Out of the Past Millennia, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany - Recognize, Contemporary Platform, London, UK - This Day, Tate Modern, London, UK - 7th Sharjah Biennale, UAE - Without Title, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium - Neighbours in Dialogue, Fezhane, Istanbul, Turkey

Einzelausstellungen
2013 - Moving Forward by the Day, Meem Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2012 - On Codes, Symbols & Stockholm Syndrome, Safarkhan Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2010 - First Temple of Flight, Almasar Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2010 - Gods & Superheroes, Galleria Luz & Suarez, Madrid, Spain
2008 - Desert Snow & Other Stories, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy 2007 - More Chromosomes, Il Divano Di George, Modena, Italy
2006 - North-East to South-West, Espace Doual’Art, Douala Cameroon
2006 - Philadelphia Chromosome, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy
2006 - Kartomania & Tout-en-Karton, French Institute, Cairo, Egypt
2005 - French memories, CCM Jean Gagnant, Limoges, France
2005 - African Memories, Chantiers de la Lune, Toulon, France
2004 - Kartonopolis & some 10 years later, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2002 - Nut, the President’s Necktie & Batman, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2000 - Icons of the Second Floor, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1999 - Halfway Home & the Electronic Gods, Guezira Art Center, Cairo, Egypt
1999 - Faster Than the City, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 1998 - Visions of a Rusty Memory, Cairo-Berlin Gallery, Cairo Egypt
1998 - Unimportant Items, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt
1992 - Steps on Desert Sands, Akhenaton III Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1990 - Prisoner of Freedom, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt
1989 - A Tale of Two Leos, Nile Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
1987 - Délires, French Institute Cairo, Egypt

Öffentliche Sammlungen
British Museum, London, UK
State Museum of Art, Thessaloniki, Greece The Saatchi Collection, London, UK MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy Mali National Museum, Bamako, Mali Maraya Art Centre, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE

Film Festivals
41st Rotterdam International Film Festival 2012 15th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland, 2011 CPH:DOX/ Copenhagen Film Festival, Denmark, 2011 17th African Film Festival, New Museum, New York, USA, 2010 1st AMAL Film Festival, Spain, 2007 8th Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt, 2004

Nominierungen
2012 The 4th Prix Pictet Photography Prize 2011 The Sovreign African Art Prize (Shortlisted)