Exhibitions

A scan of the front page of the exhibition catalogue from Menhat Helmy’s first solo show in 1966 (Credit: Menhat Helmy Estate)

Solo Shows

  • Solo Show, Etchings at Akhnaton Hall, Cairo, Egypt, 1966.

  • Solo Show, Etchings and Graphics, London, 1978.

  • Solo Show, Etchings at Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt, 1979

  • Solo Show, at University Austral of Chile, Chile, 1985

  • Retrospective Show, Horizon One Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2005

  • Visions of Abstraction, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, 2023

Group Exhibitions

  • Salon Du Caire (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1983)

  • Exhibition De Printemp (1956, 1957, 1960, 1961)

  • Annual Exhibition for Plastic Arts (1970, 1971, 1972)

  • Egyptian Graphic Arts Exhibition (1971)

  • Gamal Abdul Nasser Exhibition 1972

  • General Exhibition for Plastic Arts XI (1972, 1973, 1981, 1985, 1988) ⁩

  • Morley Staff and Students’ Exhibition (1973)

  • Printmakers Council—PMC (1973)

  • Grafik Aus Dem Mediterranen Raum (1979)

  • Volkshochschule Leverkusen—Grafik aus dem mediterranen Raum (1979)

  • ‎⁨معرض الفنان وقطعته المختارة (1979)

  • Participated at the India Triennale, 1981

  • Participated at the Contemporary Arab Artists exhibition in London, 1982

  • Contemporary Arab Graphics, London (1982, 1983)

  • Society of Contemporary Graphic Arts (1983)

  • Exhibition of Graphics, Aida Gallery (1985)

  • Exhibition for Pioneers of Artistic Education Cairo (1994)

  • 3rd National Graphic Exhibition (Cairo, Egypt, 2005)

  • معرض الفن و العطاء (2007)⁩

  • Taking Shape - Abstraction from the Arab World 1950-80 (2020-22, USA)

  • T-Marbouta Exhibition (2021, ArtTalks, Cairo)

  • Konkret Global (Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, 2022)

  • Kawkaba: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation (London, England 2023)

  • Art Cairo (Grand Egyptian Museum, 2024, 2025)

Biennales

  • Alexandria Biennial (1957, 1959, 1961, 1965)

  • Ljubljana Exposition Internationale de Grauvre (1963, 1967, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1987)

  • Premio Internazionale Biella (1976, 1979)

  • The 10th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo (1976)

  • Norske Internnasjonale Grafikk Biennale (1978, 1980. 1982, 1984)

  • Venice Biennale, Italy, 1980

  • Third World Biennale of Graphic Arts (1980)

  • V Bienal Internacional De Arte - Chile (1981)

  • British International Print Biennial (1984, 1986)

  • Fifth Triennale India (1985)

  • 2nd Cairo Biennal (1986)

  • Intergrafik, East germany (1987)

  • 2nd Egyptian International Print Biennale, (Cairo, Egypt 1996)