Iman Issa (b. 1979, Cairo, Egypt) is an artist working with sculpture, text, and installation. She studied philosophy, political science, and visual arts at the American University in Cairo and Columbia University, New York, and since 2020 has been Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her practice explores political and personal associations with history, language, and objects, often juxtaposing sculptures with texts. She has exhibited at the Kunsthalle Wien; the Neue Galerie Graz; the Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Belvedere 21, Vienna; MACBA, Barcelona; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the 12th Sharjah Biennial; the 8th Berlin Biennial; the M HKA, Antwerp; the Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; the New Museum, New York; and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.