Shereif Eldesouky
September - November, 2025
Shereif Eldesouky is an Egyptian mixed media artist and painter currently based in Bangkok. Born in Saudi Arabia, Eldesouky grew up between Saudi and the UK. He moved to Egypt during his high school and university years where he earned his B.A. in integrated marketing communications & a minor in fine arts from the American University in Cairo.
His professional background started in creative advertising, branding, and events management in Cairo, moving to Jordan where he worked in tourism destination marketing. He later shifted his career to becoming a freelance artist when he relocated to the Philippines and then Washington D.C. where he worked at the National Gallery of Art. Eldesouky creates immersive surreal worlds vivid in color and imagery. His painting technique reflects a broad range of emotion through its fluidity as it draws inspiration from the natural world.
Cosmic Corals is an effort to commemorate a past memory and celebrate the resilience and enduring bonds of sibling love through the metaphor of an everchanging reef being lost and rehabilitated. It reminds us that even the same emotional tides that drift us apart can also draw us back together – just as corals, even after bleaching, hold the potential for revival. In the expression of sorrow and rebirth, the exhibition holds space for hope, forgiveness and regrowth, framing separation and reunion as natural stages of progress.
Eldesouky’s process mirrors the reef’s transformation: he creates multiple paintings, deconstructing them, to then bind them back together into new forms that embody reformation. In doing so, the works invite viewers to consider the fragility and resilience of their own bonds, and to reflect on our shared future with the sea and the ecosystems that sustain life.
Cosmic Corals Opening Night
September 20, 2025
On September 20, Bangkok 1899 came alive as we welcomed guests to the opening of Cosmic Corals, the latest solo exhibition by Egyptian mixed-media artist Shereif Eldesouky. The evening unfolded with vibrant conversation, shared wonder and deep reflection as visitors immersed themselves in Eldesouky’s dreamlike, reef-inspired world: a poetic meditation on memory, resilience and sibling love.
Cosmic Corals Closing Workshop: Create & Reflect
November 21, 2025
Thank you to everyone who joined the “Art for Therapy” workshop as we celebrated the final day of Shereif Eldesouky’s Cosmic Corals exhibition at Bangkok 1899. It was a beautiful, calming evening; one filled with personal reflection, creativity and inspiring conversations under the cool night sky.
Deep gratitude to our incredible team for organizing this event; to Shereif and Olle for guiding the workshop and creating the stunning soundscape; to Na Projects for the delicious drinks that kept the night flowing; and to Galleries’ Nights volunteers Kati and Pop for their generous support.
This program was proudly presented as part of Galleries’ Nights, organized by Sawasdee France.