Dor Guez

Lives and works between Athens and Jaffa.

Dor Guez is a Jerusalem-born artist of mixed heritage, descending from a Palestinian family from Lydda and Jewish immigrants from North Africa. His multidisciplinary practice investigates the intersections of these identities, revealing how personal narratives intertwine with—and often challenge—dominant historical accounts.

For over two decades, Guez has focused on archival research and photographic practices that trace moments of transformation and disruption across landscapes and histories. Through photography, video, and performance, he explores the relationship between art, narrative, and memory, raising questions about contemporary art’s role in re-narrating unwritten histories and re-contextualizing visual and textual archives.

Guez has held more than sixty solo exhibitions at major international institutions, including Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City), Felix Nussbaum Museum (Osnabrück), Princeton University Art Museum (New Jersey), MAMBO – Museum of Modern Art (Bogotá), FUTURA (Prague), DEPO (Istanbul), Museum for Islamic Art (Jerusalem), Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit), ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), CCA – Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv), Rose Art Museum (Massachusetts), Artpace (San Antonio), The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation (London), and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin).

His works are held in prominent public collections, including Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Guggenheim (Abu Dhabi), LACMA (Los Angeles), The Jewish Museum (New York), Princeton University Art Museum, Rose Art Museum (Boston), FRAC Collection (Marseille), Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art (Bogotá), among others.

Nine books have been published internationally on Guez’s practice by Kerber Verlag, Distanz, New England Press, and the A.M. Qattan Foundation. He is the founder of the Christian-Palestinian Archive (CPA) and Director of Seaport: Mediterranean Curatorial Residency Program. In 2023, his studio established the Samira Munayer Scholarship Program, supporting higher education for Palestinian women art students.