Iman Issa (born 1979) is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large.

She initially studied philosophy and political science, and then continued to pursue photography when the university launched a visual arts program.

Curator Ryan Inoyue of Sharjah Biennial 12 writes that Issa has "developed an aesthetic that mines the latent meaning and transformational potential of objects, ideas, and figures that appear out of sync with our times.

Unlike her previous series, Heritage Studies focuses on artifacts from ethnographic and anthropological museums whose meanings are constructed by their designations which she feels have a "particular resonance and communicative ability in the present.

These labels and texts are ambiguous; for example, Heritage Studies #10's copper cylindrical shape evokes an existing monument with only the suggestions of a plaque which reads "Column from the Great Colonnade of the Newly Founded Capital Samarra."

This sculpture has been acquired by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and will be featured in the upcoming show, But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa.

Issa aims to unpack the possibilities of the original works' titles in order to offer new physical expression of their meanings.

The text panels feature quotes from the famous Arab writers: Edward Said, Mourid Barghouti, Taha Hussein, and Nawal Al-Saadawi.

Issa picked five autobiographies from the aforementioned writers and lifted excerpts that communicated snippets of their lives tied to broader socio-political context.