Publications & Artist Books

2025 731.52 cm of land, Bishouty, Nour. Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada, in collaboration with Liverpool Biennial and Gallery 44

2025 Bishouty, N., & Sanader, D. Two figures in patchwork clothing move forward via camel, Archive Stories

2025 A Distortion of a Distortion: Nour Bishouty in conversation with Daniella Sanader, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA)

2024 Cento, Ed. Dani Neira, Open Space and Moniker Press, Victoria, Canada

2024 SNAPLINE 2023.3: Family, Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP), Edmonton, Canada (commissioned print edition)

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

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

Solo & Two-person Exhibitions

2027 (forthcoming) Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington, Canada

2026 Unlikely Mother, Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico - Curator: Miguel Lopez

2025 In Between the Verses Winging From Hill to Hill, All Was Utterly Silent (performance), with Adrian Schindler, Bulegoa z/b, Bilbao, Spain

2025 Rock Paper Scissors, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada

2024 Notes for a Guest Book, Ace Hotel & Images Festival, Toronto, Canada - Curator: Jaclyn Quaresma

2023 Shepherded towards a yellowish field, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Toronto, Canada - Curator: Amanda Boulos

2022 Nothing is lost except nothing at all except what is not had, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada - 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, United States

Group Exhibitions

2025 BEDROCK, Liverpool Biennial 2025, Liverpool, United Kingdom - Curator: Marie-Anne McQuay

2024 On the count of three, Cat’s Cradle, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada - Curator: Danica Pinteric

2024 Salt-Kissed: Of Vessels That Have Sailed The Red Sea, Art Jameel, Saudi Arabia

2024 Les forces du sommeil, La Biennale de Québec – Manif d’art, Québec City, Canada - Curator: Marie Muracciole

2024 Gravity Model, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada

2024 How to Time Travel, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan - Curator: Rana Beiruti

2023 Writing Mountains / Entre les lignes, Galerie d’art Stewart Hall, Pointe-Claire, Canada - Curator: Manel Benchabane

2022 I am land that remembers, ArtworxTO, Union Station, Toronto, Canada - Curator: Maya Wilson-Sanchez

2021 GTA21 Triennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada - Curators: Daisy Desrosiers, November Paynter, Rui Mateus Amaral

2021 New Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada - Curator: Jenifer Cane

2020 From Sun to Cement, Herter Gallery, Amherst, United States - Curators: Laylah Ali, Francis Christopher Oakley, Emma Chubb, Ajay Sinha

2016 Twenty-Three Days at Sea, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Canada - Curator: Kimberly Phillips

2016 I Spy With My Little Eye, Casa Árabe, Córdoba and Madrid, Spain - Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath

2015 I Spy With My Little Eye, The Mosaic Rooms, London, United Kingdom

2015 Setups / Situations / Institutions, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

2014 Exposure: Under Construction, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon - Curator: Marie Muracciole

Art Fairs

2025 Art Toronto, with Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada

Bibliography

Critical Writing & Press

2026 María del Carmen Barrios, The Art Newspaper, “Exhibitions to see during Mexico City Art Week”, 4 February 2026 — Includes Unlikely Mother, Nour Bishouty’s solo exhibition at Museo Universitario del Chopo alongside other key exhibitions during Mexico City Art Week.

2025 Nour Bishouty: Rock Paper Scissors. Solo exhibition press listing on ArtViewer for COOPER COLE, Toronto, March 21 – April 26, 2025. [External Link]

2025 Daniella Sanader, Nour Bishouty “A Distortion of a Distortion” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA). [PDF]

2024 Tammer El-Sheikh, “Planes, Trains and Car Bombs: Departures from the Adjectival Orient,”Esse, Issue 111: Tourism. [PDF]

2024 Manif d’art 11, “Nour Bishouty,” Universes.art (Manif d’art 11 – La biennale de Québec). [External Link]

2023 Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, “Unsettled and softened: A Conversation with Nour Bishouty,” The Capilano Review, Summer. [External Link]

2022 Nour Bishouty in Conversation with Leyla El Sayed Hussein: 1–130 | Discussion and Library Intervention. Public conversation and library installation at the Beirut Art Center Library, Beirut Art Center, April 20, 2022. [External Link]

2022 Maia Asshaq, “An Index of the Unseen,” Tank Magazine, February.[External Link]

2021 Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21). e-flux (announcement for Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto exhibition). [External Link]

2021 Daniella Sanader, “Nour Bishouty’s 1—130: Selected Works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan,” The Brooklyn Rail, September. [External Link]

2021 Kareem Estefan, “A Gathering Place for Objects that Have No Place,” The Journal of Visual Culture: The Palestine Portfolio. [External Link]

2021 Karie Liao, “Observing the Changing Same: MOCA Toronto’s GTA21 Triennial,” Vie des Arts, November. [External Link]

2021 November Paynter and Nour Bishouty, “In conversation,” GTA21: Toronto’s Most Exciting Contemporary Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, pp. 124–129.

2021 Reyhan Yazdani, “1—130 Nour Bishouty,” C Magazine, September. [External Link]

2016 Jaclyn Bruneau, “Twenty-Three Days at Sea,” Canadian Art.

2015 “ فنانون جدد في متاهة المدينة والذاكرة والجسد” Rawan Ezzedine, Al-Akhbar Newspaper

2015 India Stoughton, “Exposing what it means to build,” The Daily Star Lebanon, January.

Exhibition Texts

2026 Mirene Arsanios, “Moether,” for Unlikely Mother, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City [PDF]

2025 Danica Pinteric, “Instructions for Hands or How to Speak with Shadows,” for Rock Paper Scissors, Cooper Cole, Toronto. [PDF]

2022 Tammer El-Sheikh, “Intergenerational Dialogue and Late Style in the Palestinian Diaspora: Nour Bishouty’s Nothing is lost except nothing at all except what is not had” Gallery 44, Toronto [PDF]

2022 Lillian O’Brien Davis and Toleen Touq, “What constitutes an acceptable landscape” Gallery 44, Toronto [PDF]

Research & Residencies

2025 Museo Universitario del Chopo, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

2025 Bulegoa z/b with Adrian Schindler, Bilbao, Spain

2024 Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan (in collaboration with Adrian Schindler)

2023 Ace Hotel Toronto and Images Festival Artist in Residence, Toronto, Canada

2023 Neither on Land Nor at Sea, Unidee Residency, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

2023 Self-directed residency, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan

2021 Visiting Artist Residency, Open Studio, Toronto, Canada

2018 Images Research Forum, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada

2015 March Project, Sharjah Biennial 12, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2014 23 Days at Sea Artist Residency, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Awards & Grants

2026 Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo

2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization

2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation

2023 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artists Creation Projects

2023 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Artists: Creation

2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation

2022 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance

2021 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance

2021 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Artists: Creation

2021 Ontario Arts Council, Chalmers Professional Development Projects

2018 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Artists

2015 Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) — Visual Arts

2015 Access Gallery, Canada Council for the Arts

2013 University of Massachusetts Amherst — Dissertation 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, Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Italy — Mediterranea Artist Residency, L’Aquila

Collections

The National Gallery of Canada, Library & Archives

The Burnaby Art Gallery

The RBC Art Collection

Private collections

Public Presentations

2025 Artist talk (invited), Curating 101: Workshopping Curatorial Process Through Exhibitions and Institutions, organized by Heather Canlas-Rigg, Gallery 44, Toronto

2025 Guest artist talk (invited), Curating Matters—Contexts and Issues in Contemporary Curatorial Practices, Heather Canlas Rigg, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga

2025 Book Launch and public conversation: 731.52 cm of land in conversation with Adam HajYahia, Printed Matter, New York

2025 Session 117, Illegal Cinema, curated in collaboration with Adrian Schindler for bulegoa z/b, Bilbao, Spain

2025 Artist talk in collaboration with Adrian Schindler, bulegoa z/b, Bilbao, Spain.

2025 Book Launch and public conversation: 731.52 cm of land in conversation with Zoe Imani Sharpe, Gallery TPW (170 St. Helens Ave) as a part of Palestine All the Time, a 24-hour program.

2025 Guest artist talk (invited), The Constructed Image, Erdem Taşdelen, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 2023. 

2024 Guest artist talk (invited), Reframing Palestine: Archival Disruptions and New Imaginaries, York University, Toronto, Canada

2023 Guest artist talk (invited) The Constructed Image, Erdem Taşdelen, University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 2023.

2022 Book launch and public conversation: 1—130: Selected works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan, in conversation with Swapnaa Tamhane, Volume 5, Volume MTL, and Maktaba Bookshop, Montreal. 

2022 Public conversation and Library Intervention: 1—130: Selected works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan with Leyla El Sayed Hussein, Beirut Art Center, Beirut

2021 Book lunch and public conversation: 1—130: Selected works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan, in conversation with with Rayya Badran and Jacob korczynski, Art Metropole, Toronto (online) 

Teaching

Visiting Faculty

Banff Art Centre, Early Career Banff Artist in Residence 2026 – with Jacob Korczynski

Sessional Faculty

University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design: Visual Studies VIS 319: Defining Landscapes, Fall 2023, Winter 2025

Instructor of Record

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Fall 2011, Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Fall 2013, Winter 2014

Workshops

MMAG Foundation, Intermediary Regions, Experimental research and study group, Amman, 2023

Education

2014–15  Home Workspace Program, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon

2014  MFA, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

2008  Fusion Arts Exchange Program, Rhode Island School of Design, United States

2008  BFA, School of Visual Arts and Design, University of Jordan, Jordan