Mohamed Shaker (b. 1947, Mansoura) is an Egyptian artist and educator whose practice spans painting, mural art and, increasingly, assemblage. Across a career of more than five decades, he has maintained a sustained interest in material and construction, bringing disparate objects, surfaces and fragments together to create new relationships between image, object and space. Assemblage has become central to Shaker’s practice, extending concerns with materiality that can be traced through his longstanding engagement with mural art and works related to architecture. His approach begins with the potential of the fragment: pottery, glass, mineral compounds and other materials are removed from familiar contexts and brought into unexpected association. Rather than concealing their differences, Shaker preserves the particular character and history of each element, allowing meaning to emerge through their encounter and what might otherwise remain a remnant or discarded object is consequently given another life within a larger whole, making assembly itself both the method and the subject of the work. Shaker graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, in 1976, before completing an MA in mural painting and arts related to architecture in 1982 and a PhD in 1987. He later served as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University and has played a significant role in Egyptian art education alongside his studio practice. He has exhibited extensively in Egypt and internationally and is a member of the International Association of Contemporary Mosaic Artists. Shaker donated his studio and a substantial body of his work and archives in Alexandria to become the Mohamed Shaker Museum, now managed by Bibliotheca Alexandria.