Dor

Guez

Dor Guez Munayer is an artist whose work examines memory, displacement, and the politics of representation through photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Drawing on archives, vernacular imagery, mapping, and evolving technologies of recording, his practice explores how personal and collective histories are constructed, transmitted, and contested.

Born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydda and Jewish immigrants from North Africa, Guez investigates the intersections of identity, migration, and historical memory across the Mediterranean. His works trace the afterlives of historical events and consider how images and systems of documentation shape what is remembered, forgotten, or transformed over time.

Guez’s studio has developed a number of archival and educational initiatives that extend his artistic practice beyond the exhibition space. These include the Samira Munayer Archive (est. 2006), a community-based archive of photographs, documents, and vernacular histories originating from the Munayer family collection and expanded through contributions from families across Palestine and the Mediterranean region.

Since 2018, Guez has directed SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research in Athens, an artist-led platform that fosters dialogue among artists, curators, and cultural institutions working across the Mediterranean.

Guez’s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2023); Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück (2023); MAMBO: Museum of Modern Art, Bogota (2022); Kunst im Kreuzgang, Bielefeld (2021); Futura Gallery, Prague, (2020); American Colony Archive, Jerusalem (2019); MAN Museum, Nuoro (2018); the Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2016); the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015) the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts (2013); The Mosaic Rooms, A.M Qattan Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Arab Culture & Art, London (2013) and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010).

Guez’s works are included in public collections such as Tate Modern London, Center Pompidou Paris, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, LACMA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, The Jewish Museum New York, Rose Art Museum, FRAC collection Marseille, Museum of Modern Art Bogota, and more.

Guez's studio is based in Athens.