George Bahgoury was born in 1932 in a small village in Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt. In 1953, he embarked on his career as a political cartoonist. In 1955, he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo, under the guidance of the Egyptian artist Hussein Bikar. In 1970, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.
Bahgoury’s artwork has been widely displayed in galleries and museums, including the Louvre Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Amman.