Islam Aly

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​• I'll be teaching two workshops at the Minnesota Center for Book:

Information and registration for the workshops are available through the MCBA website.


• I'll be giving  an artist talk titled: Material, Structure, and Narrative in Artists' Books
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 6:30 PM -7:30 PM, Minnesota Center for Book, Minneapolis, MN

​Free & Open to all,  Registration is highly encouraged through MCBA website.

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• Honored to have two of my books, "The Square ," and "Marginalia VI"  included in the exhibition "10 × 10 for 10: Ten years of Letterform Archive. One hundred objects of typographic design". The exhibition runs from April 26 – October 12, 2025, at The Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA 


•  I exhibited at Crossing the Line: The Passport Re-Imagined, Curated by Catherine Alice Michaelis and Cynthia Sears, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA, April 19- June 15, 2025

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• I participated in Tropic Bound, Miami’s international, biennial Artists’ Book Fair, Miami Design District,  Miami, Florida, February  6-9, 2025


• I participated in the Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, November  28- December 1, 2024. Thanks to Culture Resource for the travel support through the Wijhat program.

•I am profoundly honored to have my work included as part of the ‘Collecting Arab Visual Cultures (1960 to Today)’ project at The British Library aiming to enhance the British Library’s collections of modern and contemporary visual culture from the Arab world.


•  My work "Kinship" was selected as a semi-finalist in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Book Art Biennial, Minneapolis, MN,  Aug 17-Oct 12, 2024.

​​​• Honored to have my book,"Marginalia 1," included in the exhibition "Language, Decipherment, And Translation - From then to Now," curated by Deirdre E. Lawrence. The exhibition runs from February 29 to May 11, 2024, at The Grolier Club in New York.​


•  My book "Enigmatic Talismans" is in the exhibition: Making the Book, Past and Present, Curated by Eric Ensley and Emily Martin,  January 17 – June 28, 2024, The University of Iowa, Main Library Gallery, Iowa City, Iowa


•  I  exhibited my work at the CODEX  Book Fair & Symposium, Oakland, CA, February 4-7, 2024.

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• My book Metamorphosis 4  was featured on the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art YouTube channel, Artist's Books Unshelved, in an episode titled:  Small Changes, Big Transformation, March 2023


• The Square was featured in the Letterform Archive exhibition and publication Strikethrough: Typographic Messages of Protest on View July 23, 2022–April 16, 2023


• I participated in Tropic Bound, Miami’s first international, biennial Artists’ Book Fair, Miami Design District,  Miami, Florida, February  16-19, 2023


​• Two of my books are in a show at Baylor University libraries. “What is a book?” curated by Sha Towers, Moody & Jones Libraries, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, December 2022.​​

• I presented my work at Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project exhibition,  March - October 2019, Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA), Twelve Gates Arts (Philadelphia, PA), Parkway Central Free Library (Philadelphia, PA), Philadelphia City Hall (Philadelphia, PA), Booklyn (Brooklyn, NY).

• I  am honored to be part of Freed Formats: The Book Reconsidered,  March - October 2019: Mark Twain Library (Redding, CT), Ridgefield Guild of Artists (CT), Ridgefield Library (CT), Putnam Arts Council (Mahopac, NY), Mahopac Public Library (NY), Five Points Gallery (Torrington, CT), University of Hartford Art School (CT)


 •  I  exhibited at​ Word | Image | Object, Juried Exhibition of contemporary artists’ book, Denver Public Library, July-December 2019, Denver, CO​


•  Four of my books (Metamorphoses 5, The Square, Sequence I, and 28 letters) were added to the special collections at Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.​​​​