Staffage, 2023, Carved walnut with nickel and mother-of-pearl inlay 27 x 90 x 26 cm - Photo: Jessann Reece, courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole, Toronto.
Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, moving image, works on paper, writing, and artist publishing. Her work attends to fragmentation in history, and the ways knowledge and fantasy are produced and withheld. Bishouty’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Museo Universitario del Chopo (2026), Mexico City; Liverpool Biennial (2025); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2025); Art Jameel, Jeddah (2024), La biennale de Québec (2024); Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2022); GTA21 Triennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art, 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 books include 1—130: Selected works Ghassan Bishouty b. 1941 Safad, Palestine — d. 2004 Amman, Jordan (2020), edited by Jacob Korczynski and co-published by Art Metropole and Motto Books; and 731.52 cm of land (2025), published by Art Metropole in conjunction with Liverpool Biennial.
She currently teaches at University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design.
She is represented by Cooper Cole, Toronto
info@coopercolegallery.com
mail@nourbishouty.com