Kevork Mourad

Artist Biography

Kevork Mourad was born in Kameshli Syria, received his degree from the Yerevan institute of Fine Art, and now lives in New York. A painter and video artist, he has had his animated and live visuals performed around the world–at the Spoleto Festival in SC (2022), Korea National Opera in Seoul (2020), National Cathedral in DC (2020), Dutch Royal Palace for the Prince Claus Foundation (2016), Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (2018, 2012, 2010), Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2018), Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA (2018), ElbPhilharmonie in Hamburg (2017), and MuCEM in Marseille (2015, 2013), among many others.

His work is in the permanent collection of Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe, the Spurlock Museum, and his towering installation Seeing Through Babel was added to the permanent collection of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in 2023. The 2016 recipient of the Robert Bosch Stiftung prize, he created the short film Four Acts for Syria. A member for two decades of the Silkroad ensemble, he is one of the artists featured in the documentary The Music of Strangers, directed by Morgan Neville. He has exhibited in galleries around the US, Europe and the Middle East, including the Asia Society Triennial in 2020, the Spurlock Museum, Illinois, (2020), the Paris Art Fair, (2019), the Rose Art Museum, Boston (2017), the Claude Lemand Gallery, Paris (2016), Kuchling Galerie in Berlin (2019), and Tabari Art Space, Dubai, (2019).

He is the recipient of a 2023 New York State Council of the Arts grant and was a fellow at the Fountainhead residency in Miami in 2024.

He is represented by Galerie Tanit, Beirut and Munich. His most recent exhibition was with Perrotin in Shanghai in Spring 2025.

Exhibitions
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Imaginary Homeland
Kevork Mourad

From May 29, 2025 to July 03, 2025

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INTANGIBLE
Collective Exhibition

From November 25, 2024 to January 4, 2025

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MENART 2023

From February 3, 2023 to February 5, 2023

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Paper Trail
50 years
Collective Exhibition

From November 23, 2022 to December 23, 2022

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MENART FAIR 2022

From May 18, 2022 to May 22, 2022 

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I Am One Acquainted With The Night
Collective Exhibition

From June 5, 2021 to September 25, 2021

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Imaginary Cities: Chapter IV
Kevork Mourad

From February 15, 2022 to March 30, 2022

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The Space Between
Kevork Mourad

From June 13, 2018 to August 1, 2018

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… كان يا مكان
Collective Exhibition

From February 16, 2022 to April 16, 2022

Kevork Mourad News
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« Imaginary Homeland », ou l’art en exil de Kevork Mourad
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A Journey Through Memory and Material: Visiting Kevork Mourad’s Studio in Chelsea
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"Constantly striving to spark alternative conversations around the socio-political reality of the Middle East and its diaspora, Tabari Artspace, Dubai is delighted to announce its first show of the new season – Between Floating Worlds – a solo exhibit of visual artist Kevork mourad ⚡️ On view until 16 January 2020 More info"
Kevork Mourad | Tabari Artspace, Dubai
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"March 30, 2019 . Auditorium 12AM Action! : Performing Drawing at Drawing Now Art Fair | Le Carreau du Temple, Paris Drawing is often considered as a performative art form that requires endurance and physical effort but also a live observational skill. It is therefore readily associated with dance, artistic conferences, activism, music, and more. […]"
"On view until September 15, 2019 Le Musée de l’Institut du Monde Arabe Le musée de l’IMA présente une exposition inédite sur le dessin dans le monde arabe. A découvrir, une centaine d’œuvres issues de sa collection, récemment enrichie de la donation Claude & France Lemand. Ces dessins, pour la plupart figuratifs, datent du XIe siècle […]"
Kevork Mourad | A la plume, au pinceau, au crayon: dessins du monde arabe
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