Nour Bishouty

Lebanon

Nour Bishouty is an interdisciplinary artist working across media including video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Her practice is broadly concerned with interpersonal perimeters, permission, and articulation, drawing on the narratives and histories of place to pose questions around dissonance, opacity, legibility, and the generative possibilities of misunderstanding. Bishouty’s work has been exhibited internationally including at La biennale de Québec (2024); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2024) Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2022); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2021); Darat Al Funun, Amman (2017); Casa Arabe, Madrid (2016); Access Gallery, Vancouver (2015); the Mosaic Rooms, London (2015); and the Beirut Art Centre, Beirut (2014). Her artist book 1—130: Selected works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan, edited by Jacob Korczynski, was co-published in 2020 by Art Metropole (Toronto) and Motto Books (Berlin).  Her work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, The Burnaby Art Gallery, and the RBC collection amongst others.