George Fikry (b. 1963, Cairo) is an Egyptian artist whose practice transforms the rituals, beliefs and social behaviours of everyday life into a form of contemporary mythology. Rooted in storytelling and folklore, his work draws on familiar cultural codes to construct layered narratives in which inherited traditions meet the realities and contradictions of present-day Egyptian society. Storytelling shapes both the content and structure of Fikry’s work. Rather than presenting a single event, his compositions often gather figures, symbols and recurring motifs into sequences in which several moments and associations coexist. Folklore enters this world not as a fixed inheritance but as something continually rewritten through lived experience, while humour and irony bring the mythic into contact with the ordinary. Across painting and other media, Fikry has developed a narrative language in which contemporary life itself becomes the material from which new myths are made. Fikry graduated from the Faculty of Art Education at Helwan University in 1986, where he later received his MA in 1994 and PhD in Art Education Philosophy in 2000. He went on to become a professor at the university, teaching the philosophical, cultural and social foundations of art. His work has been exhibited extensively in Egypt and internationally, and he received a Biennale Prize at the 10th Cairo International Biennale in 2006. His work is held in collections including the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art, the Ministry of Culture, Helwan University, the General Authority of Cultural Palaces and the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.