Current & Forthcoming

→ Feb, 2026・Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX

→ Sep, 2025・bulegoa z/b with Adrian Schindler, Bilbao, SP

→ Jun, 2025・13th Liverpool Biennial 2025, Liverpool, UK

→ Mar, 2025・Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA

→ Nov - Dec, 2024・In between the verses winging from hill to hill, all was utterly silent・Residency and exhibition in collaboration with Adrian Schindler・Darat Al Funun, Amman, JO

→ Silver Editions 2024, Gallery TPW, Toronto ON

Published Works & Books

2020 Bishouty, Nour “1—130 Selected works, Ghassan Bishouty, b. 1941 Safad, Palestine —d. 2004 Amman, Jordan.” Ed: Jacob Korczynski. Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole and Berlin, Germany: Motto Books, 2020.

2016 Bishouty, Nour “Twenty-Three Days at Sea” Artist Logbook. Access Gallery, Vancouver, 2016

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2025 (forthcoming Aug) Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX - Curator: Miguel Lopez 
2025 (forthcoming Spring) Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
2024 On the count of three, curated by Danica Pinteric, commissioned work for Nuit Blanche Toronto, Waterfront East, Toronto, CA
2024 Notes for a Guest Book, Ace Hotel & Images Festival, Toronto, CA
2023 Shepherded towards a yellowish field, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Palestine Film Festival (2023) 
2022 Nothing is lost except nothing at all except what is not had, Gallery44, Toronto - Curators: Toleen Touq, Lillian O’Brian Davis
2022 Visiting Artist Residency series, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
2017 Adraa Samar, The Lab at Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan - Curator: Rana Beiruti 
2014 Instead of a Resolution, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 (forthcoming June) 13th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2024 Salt-Kissed: Of Vessels That Have Sailed The Red Sea, Art Jameel, SA - Curators: Ahmed Alaqraa and Abdulrahman Shabana
2024 Les forces du sommeil, La biennale de Québec Manif d’art - Curator: Marie Muracciole
2024 Gravity Model, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON
2024 How to Time Travel, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan - Curator: Rana Beiruti
2023 Writing Mountains / Entre les lignes, Galerie d’art Stewart Hall, QC - Curator: Manel Benchabane 
2022 ArtworxTO, I am land that remembers, Union Station, Toronto, Canada - Curator: Maya Wilson-Sanchez.
2021-22 GTA21 Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada - Curators: Daisy Desrosiers, November Paynter, and Rui Mateus Amaral
2021-22 New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC - Curator: Jenifer Cane
2020 From Sun to Cement, Herter Gallery, Amherst, MA, USA - Curators: Laylah Ali, Francis Christopher Oakley, Emma Chubb, and Ajay Sinha
2016 Twenty-Three Days at Sea, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Cathrines, Canada - Curator: Kimberly Phillips
2016 I Spy With My Little Eye, Casa Arabe, Cordoba and Madrid, SP 
Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath
2015 I Spy With My Little Eye, The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK
2015 Setups / Situations / Institutions, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
2014 Exposure: Under Construction, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon 
Curator: Marie Muracciole
2013 In-House, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2013 Boston Young Contemporaries 2013, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 Best of the Northeast MFA Exhibition, Hellen Day Art Center, Stowe VT 
2013 91 to 95, Gallery 102 at George Washington University, Washington D.C
2013 Rondo Scordatura, SUA Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2012 Soft Tissue, Lee Edwards Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2012 Boston Young Contemporaries 2012, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2011 Intersections, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

Bibliography

— 2024 May Tammer El-Sheikh, Planes, Trains and Car Bombs: Departures from the Adjectival Orient, Esse, Issue 111 Tourism
— Behzadi, Mojeanne (Dec 2023) “Entre les lignes – Writing Mountains” — Nour Bishouty, Kuh Del Rosario, Joyce Joumaa, Anahita Norouzi, La Société des archives affectives (Fiona Annis and Véronique La Perrière M.), Hajra Waheed, Leila Zelli Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Montreal, 18 March to 28 May 2023, C Magazine, Issue: 156.
—Zong-Li Ross, Jacquelyn (Jul 2023) “Unsettled and softened: A Conversation with Nour Bishouty” The Capilano Review, Issue 3.50: In(ter)ventions in the Archive (Summer 2023) [External link]
— El-Sheikh, Tammer (Mar 2022) “Intergenerational Dialogue and Late Style in the Palestinian Diaspora: Nour Bishouty’s Nothing is lost except nothing at all except what is not had at Gallery 44” Gallery 44: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
— O’Brien Davis, Lillian and Touq, Toleen (Feb 2022) “What constitutes an acceptable landscape”, Gallery 44: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
— Zavialoff, Alexis and Asshaq, Maia (Feb 2022) “An Index of the Unseen” Tank Magazine [External link]
— Liao, Karie “Observing the Changing Same: MOCA Toronto’s GTA21 Triennial” (Nov 2021) Vie des Arts [external link]
— “Nour Bishouty in conversation with November Paynter” (2021) GTA21: Toronto's Most Exiting Contemporary Artists, p.124-129, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada
— Sanader, Daniella, “Nour Bishouty’s 1—130: Selected Works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan,” (Sep 2021), The Brooklyn Rail [External link]
— Estefan, Kareem “A Gathering Place for Objects that Have No Place” (2021) The Journal of Visual Culture, Vol 20-2, 2021 The Palestine Portfolio [External link]
— Yazdani, Reyhan “1—130 Nour Bishouty” (Sep 2021), C-Magazine, Issue 149 
— Bruneau, Jaclyn
— Ezzedine, Rawan “فنانون جدد في متاهة المدينة والذاكرة والجسد,” (Jan 2015) Al-Akhbar Newspaper
— Stoughton, India “Exposing what it means to build,” (Jan 2015), The Daily star Lebanon
— Muracciole, Marie “Exposure”, (2015) Beirut Art Centre, Beirut, Lebanon
— “We Don’t Know What We’re Doing Till It’s Done” (2015), Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
— “I Spy With my Little Eye”, The Mosaic Rooms, London, United kingdom - Texts by Rachael Jarvis, Eduardo López Busquets, Sam Bardaouil, and Till Fellrath

Residencie & Research

2024 (forthcoming) in collaboration with Adrian Schindler, The Lab at Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2023 Images Festival and Ace Hotel Artist in Residence
2023 Neither on Land Nor at Sea (Curator: Chiara Chiara Cartuccia) Unidee Residency Program Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella Italy 
2023 MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan 
2021 Visiting Artist Residency, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada
2018 Images Research Forum, Images Festival, Toronto 
2015 March Project, Sharjah Biennial 12, The Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2014 23 Days at Sea Artist Residency, Access Gallery, Vancouver BC

Awards & Grants

2024 Canada Council for the Arts - Arts Abroad
2023 Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant
2023 Toronto Arts Council - Individual Visual Artist Grant
2022 Canada Council for the Arts - Arts Abroad
2022 Ontario Arts Council - Chalmers Professional Development Projects
2021 Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant 
2021 Toronto Arts Council - Individual Visual Artist Grant
2021 Ontario Arts Council - Art Response Initiative Grant
2018 Toronto Arts Council - Individual Visual Artist Grant
2015 Arab Fund For Arts and Culture AFAC - Visual Arts Grant
2015 Canada Council for the Arts - Visiting Foreign Artists Program, Access Gallery
2013 University of Massachusetts - Dissertation Graduate Fellowship Short List
2012 UMass Arts Council - Production Grant
2008 Fusion Arts Exchange Program Scholarship, Rhode Island School of Design
2008 Visiting International Artist Award, The Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Italy Mediterranea, Artist Residency, L’Aquila, Italy.

Collections

The National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives
The Burnaby Art Gallery
The RBC Art Collection
Private collections 

Education

2011-14 MFA Studio Arts, The University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014-15 Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Lebanon
2004-08 BFA School of Visual Art and Design, The University of Jordan