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Dor Guez Munayer is a Jaffa-based artist, curator, and educator. He was born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydda on his mother's side and a family of Jewish immigrants from North Africa on his father's side. Guez's practice includes photography, video, installations, sculpture, and lecture-performances.

Guez explores the relationship between art, narrative, memory, and displacement through his work. Interrogating personal experiences and official accounts of the past, Guez raises questions about contemporary art's role in narrating unwritten histories and re-contextualizing visual and written documents. In the past 20 years, his studies and artistic work have focused on archival materials and photographic practices of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as mapping traces of violence in the landscape. Guez received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2014 and earned his professorship from Bezalel Academy of the Arts and Design in 2018. He is the founder of the CPA (Christian-Palestinian Archive), The Head of the MFA Program at Bezalel, the Director of Seaport: Mediterranean Curatorial Residency Program, and the chief curator of Bezalel Gallery for Contemporary Art.

To date, nine books have been published internationally about Guez's practice. Publishers include Kerber Verlag, Distanz, New England Press, and A.M Qattan Foundation. Guez's work has been displayed in over 50 solo exhibitions and in numerous group exhibitions worldwide.

Guez's works are a part of numerous international public collections, including Tate Modern London, Center Pompidou Paris, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, LACMA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum New York, and more. Guez is represented by Dvir Gallery, Paris/Brussels/Tel Aviv, Goodman Gallery, London/Johannesburg/Cape Town, and Carlier-Gebauer Gallery, Berlin/Madrid.

Education

2002-06 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, Photography and Video
2007-08 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Interdisciplinary Arts Program,MA,
2008-09 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Museology
2009-11 Faculty of Art, Tel Aviv University, PhD

Teaching

2014 Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, Head of Photography Department,

Awards And Prizes

2009 Dean's Scholarship for Excellence, Tel Aviv University
2010 Young Artist Prize, Ministry of Education
2010 The Fund for the Encouragement of Video Art and Experimental Cinema
2010-2011, Tel Aviv University scholarship for research, Tel Aviv University
2011 Finalist for the Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize, The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation
2011 Scholarship, Rabinovich Foundation, Tel Aviv
2012 Artist's Grant Recipient
2012 The Orgler Scholarship for excellent PhD scholars in the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Perlmutter Artist Award, The Rose Art Museum, Boston
2012 Artist In Residency, Artspace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
2013 First Prize, MAXXI Museo Nazionale Delle Arti, Rome, Italy