Youssef Asar

Born in Egypt, graduated from Cairo University, studied art in Germany. He returned to Egypt for 4 years assembling murals of Egyptian Gods in government buildings and at Cairo airport. In 1967 he immigrated to Australia where he lived for 26 years and taught painting. He worked at Sydney University and in 1973 moved to Darwin, Australia where he establishe a Fine Arts College at the University of the Northern Territory, Australia. In 1994 he returned to Egypt to observe and create anew. His successful exhibition in March 1998 was "Returning to the Roots" in the AlAhram Building in Cairo, Egypt. In the fall of 1998, he was appointed George Washington Carver Artist-in-residence, Iowa State University, 1998-1999