Nour Bishouty

Nour Bishouty (born 1986) is a multidisciplinary visual artist. Born in Amman, Jordan, and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. She holds Lebanese and Canadian citizenship. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Jordan and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts and participated in the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut

Bishouty works across media including video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. She has produced work featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Manif d'art la Biennale de Quebec; Gallery 44, Toronto; SAVAC: South Asian Visual Arts Centre, Toronto; Darat Al Funun, Amman; Casa Arabe, Madrid; the Mosaic Rooms, London; and the Beirut Art Centre, amongst others. Bishouty's work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada's Library and Archives, and the Burnaby Art Gallery amongst others.

Artistic Career

Nour Bishouty's interdisciplinary work explores notions of permission and articulation in the context of cultural narratives, exploring gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy. Her work proposes artistic strategies that unsettles museological conventions of classification and order, and troubles ideas like “legacy” in narratives overwritten by dispossession and displacement.

Bishouty's 2021 book "1—130: Selected Works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan," revisits the artistic oeuvre and personal archives of her late father, Ghassan Bishouty a Palestinian-Lebanese artist whose work was little known during his lifetime. The book constitutes an improvised study into a collection of artworks and envisions a partly speculative narrative of the late artist's life acting as an intimate act of commemoration, while at the same time looking into the parameters and complexities of artistic legacy and obscurity. It was co-published by Art Metropole in Toronto and Moto Books in Berlin.

In an essay review by scholar and art historian Tammer El-Sheikh, Bishouty’s work is described as stylistically diverse and compared with Edward's Said’s notion of a “late style”: "from one generation to the next, we have an example of a late style that emerges with the young, on the shoulders of the dead, so late it is posthumous, in fact, but freer in its versatility as a result of having begun anew."

Bishouty's work was included in the inaugural triennial of MOCA the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto GTA2021 and the 2024 Quebec City Biennale Manif d'art.

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