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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 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.
About the artist
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.
