Dor Guez

Dor Guez is an artist and a scholar who lives in Jaffa. Guez's work raises questions about contemporary art's role in narrating unwritten histories, and re-contextualizing visual and written documents. The artist's cultural heritage, Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian, is reflected in his artistic interest and examination of Arab culture.

Biography

Dor Guez was born in Jerusalem, the son of a Tunisian Jewish father and a Christian Arab mother.[1]

Guez is a lecturer in the history and theory department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem,[2] and a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University. He currently serves as a head of the Photography Department at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. In 2009 he established the Christian Palestinian Archive, which forms the basis of much of his work and is the first archive devoted to this minority across the Middle East. Guez lives in Jaffa.

Artistic career

Guez, whose cultural heritage is both Eastern Orthodox Christian Palestinian and Jewish Tunisian, explores subjects such as the Christian minorities of Israel, which may be marginalized by the prevailing meta-narratives of both Israeli Jews and Arabs, while probing questions of nationality, ethnicity and personal identity.[3]

Guez has held several solo exhibitions, including Georgeopolis[4] (Petach Tikva Museum), the Monayer Family[5] (Jewish Museum, New York, 2010), a survey of his work at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art,[6] Berlin, The Nation’s Groves at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and gebauer Gallery, Berlin; Against The Grain at Beursschouwburg Art Center, Brussels; and SABIR at Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv. His work has also been shown at the 12th Istanbul Biennial; the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival; Videobrasil, São Paulo; the 3rd Moscow International Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Benin Biennial, Bucharest Biennial and more.[7]

"100 Steps to the Mediterranean" at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is Guez's first show in the United States.

Dor Guez is represented by Dvir Gallery in Tel Aviv and Brussells[8] and Galerie carlier|gebauer, Berlin.[9]

Awards and recognition

Guez is the recipient of the Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Israel; Orgler Scholarship, Tel Aviv University; Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist in Residency Award, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; and International Artist in Residence Award, Artpace, San Antonio.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Georgiopolis". The Jerusalem Post - JPost.com.
  2. ↑ "Artis". artisrael.org.
  3. ↑ "Review: ‘Dor Guez: 100 Steps To The Mediterranean,’ at the Rose - Theater & art - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  4. ↑ http://www.petachtikvamuseum.com/en/Exhibitions.aspx?eid=1113
  5. ↑ "The Jewish Museum - The Monayer Family: Three Videos by Dor Guez". The Jewish Museum.
  6. ↑ "KW Institute for Contemporary Art". kw-berlin.de.
  7. ↑ "Dor Guez - carlier - gebauer". carliergebauer.com.
  8. ↑ http://www.dvirgallery.com
  9. ↑ "Current - carlier - gebauer". carliergebauer.com.

External links

Exhibitions

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