Fathi Hassan (Arabic: فتحي حسن, born 10 May 1957) is an Egyptian-born artist known for his installations involving the written word.

[2] His father Hassan was Sudanese and his mother Fatma was from the Toshka Lakes region in southern Egypt.

[2] In 1989 Hassan was the first artist of African heritage to be invited to the "Aperto" section of the 43rd Venice Biennale curated by Dan Cameron and Giovanni Carandente.

He has exhibited in numerous galleries in Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Egypt, and United States.

[citation needed] Hassan's work often emphasizes power dynamics and the relationship between the oral and written word; drawing from his Nubian heritage, he places particular emphasis on the loss of language under the dominance of colonialism.