Dor Guez Munayer is an artist whose practice examines memory, displacement, and the politics of representation through photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Working with archives, vernacular images, mapping, and technologies of documentation, his work explores how personal and collective histories are produced, transmitted, and contested through visual culture. Through these intersections, the present comes into view alongside possible futures, attentive to how histories of rupture, migration, and erasure continue to shape contemporary landscapes.

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Born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydda and Jewish immigrants from North Africa, Guez draws on communal and personal histories to explore the entanglement of identities across the Mediterranean. His practice traces the afterlives of historical events through images, archives, mapping, and evolving technologies of recording and preservation, examining how visual systems shape, obscure, and transmit memory across generations. His recent survey exhibition, Catastrophe, at the Museum of Modern Art Bogotá reflects his sustained engagement with archival practices, community histories, and the politics of visual representation.

Guez’s studio is based in Athens, where he also runs SeaPort, an artist-led center for curatorial research and exchange focused on artistic and curatorial dialogue across the Mediterranean.

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Performance

In his multimedia performances, Guez draws on photographs, archival documents, and historical objects to connect personal narratives with broader histories of image production, circulation, and political representation. Moving between public and private archives, his performances examine how photographs construct historical knowledge, mediate memory, and shape understandings of place and identity.

Guez’s performances have been presented at institutions including the Centre Pompidou, Princeton University Art Museum, the American Colony Archive, and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art.

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Archives, Education & Public Programs

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

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

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Exhibitions 

Guez's work has been displayed in over 60 solo exhibitions worldwide at notable institutions, including Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City (2023), Felix Nussbaum Museum in Osnabrück (2023), Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey (2022), MAMBO: Museum of Modern Art in Bogota (2022), Kunst im Kreuzgang in Bielefeld (2021), and Futura Gallery in Prague (2020). His exhibitions also include the American Colony Archive in Jerusalem (2019), MAN Museum in Nuoro (2018), DEPO in Istanbul (2017), Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem (2017), Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (2016), Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2015), Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv (2015), Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts (2013), Artpace in San Antonio (2013), The Mosaic Rooms at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in London (2013), KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2010), and Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2009).

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Guez has participated in group exhibitions at a variety of institutions, including Kunstmuseum Bonn (2023), The Jewish Museum in New York (2021), Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin (2020), Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg (2019), Musée des Beaux-Arts in France (2018), and MODEM Museum in Hungary (2018). His work has also been featured at Brown University in Providence, (2017), Arab World Institute in Paris (2017), CEPA Gallery in Buffalo,  (2017), UNTREF Museum in Buenos Aires (2016), and the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (2016). Other notable exhibitions include the North Coast Art Triennial in Denmark (2016), Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina (2015), and the 17th, 18th, and 19th International Contemporary Art Festival Videobrasil in São Paulo (2011, 2013, 2015). Additionally, he has exhibited at the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Cleveland Institute of Art (2014), Triennale Museum in Milano (2014), Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun (2014), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2014), Maxxi Museum in Rome (2013), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2012), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), and the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana (2010).

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To date, nine books have been published internationally about Guez's practice. Publishers include Kerber Verlag, Distanz, New England Press, and A.M Qattan Foundation. 

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Collections

Guez's works are a part of substantial public collections, including 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.

Contact

Dor Guez Muanyer is based in both Jaffa and Athens. He is represented by Dvir Gallery, Paris/Brussels/Tel Aviv, Goodman Gallery, London/Johannesburg/Cape Town/ New York, and Carlier-Gebauer Gallery, Berlin/Madrid.

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Guez Studio: Velissariou 11, Athens 11471, Greece

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