Amal Kenawy (1974–19 August 2012) was an Egyptian contemporary visual artist, best known for her videos, performance and feminist work.

[2] She started her artistic career as a student, collaborating with her older brother, Abdel Ghany Kenawy.

She used her own body alongside representations of fragile materials, animals and objects, to express mental and physical pain and address themes such as birth, marriage, death, dreams and memory.

[5] She was an iconic female artist, respected for her creativity and deep devotion to her work, though tragically short-lived.

[5] Her work is collected by major public collection, such as Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar and the Sharjah Art Foundation in the UAE, and exhibited in major biennials such as Dakar Biennale and Sharjah Biennial.