Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing.
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Broadly concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy, her practice explores notions of permission and articulation in cultural narratives overwritten by dispossession and displacement.
Bishouty’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Art Jameel, Jeddah (2024); La biennale de Québec (2024) Quebec City; Cooper Cole, Toronto (2024); Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2022); the Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, 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 and Motto Books. Upcoming projects include solo exhibitions at Cooper Cole, Toronto (March 2025) and the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City (Aug 2025).
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Nour Bishouty, Nothing is lost except nothing at all except what is not had, 2022. Courtesy of Gallery 44 and SAVAC, Toronto Canada. Photography by Darren Rigo. -
Nour Bishouty, On our Wadi Sabra adventure with Ali-f and Raweya, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. -
Nour Bishouty and Ghassan Bishouty, 0°, 0° (1981-83, 2022). Courtesy of Gallery 44 and SAVAC, Toronto Canada. Photography by Darren Rigo. -
Nour Bishouty, Visible Regions, 2022.Courtesy of Gallery 44 and SAVAC, Toronto Canada. Photography by Darren Rigo
