Dor Guez Munayer is an artist working across photography, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and archival research. His practice examines how histories are produced, transmitted, and contested through images, archives, landscapes, and technologies of documentation. Drawing on personal, communal, and institutional archives, his work traces the afterlives of historical events and the ways memory is shaped by systems of recording, preservation, and visual representation.

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Born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydd and Jewish immigrants from North Africa, Guez explores the entanglement of identities, geographies, and historical narratives across the Mediterranean. His work moves between public and private archives, vernacular photographs, mapping practices, and material environments, investigating how histories of displacement, migration, and rupture continue to shape contemporary life.

In recent projects, the witness is no longer exclusively human. Plants, objects, architectural fragments, and landscapes emerge as carriers of historical knowledge, suggesting alternative forms through which memory persists across generations. Through these inquiries, Guez examines the relationship between image-making, historical consciousness, and the political conditions under which certain histories become visible while others remain obscured.

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His recent survey exhibition, Catastrophe, presented at the Museum of Modern Art Bogotá, brought together over two decades of work addressing archives, community histories, ecological traces, and the politics of representation. Based between Athens and Jaffa, Guez continues to develop artistic, archival, and research-based projects that engage with the Mediterranean as both a historical space and a contemporary condition.

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Performance

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Guez’s performances combine photographs, archival materials, historical objects, and spoken narrative to examine the lives of images beyond the exhibition space. Drawing from both personal and institutional archives, these works explore how photographs circulate across generations, acquire new meanings, and participate in the construction of historical knowledge. Often presented as lecture-performances, his projects move between storytelling, research, and visual analysis, inviting audiences to reconsider the relationship between images, memory, and public history.

 

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

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​Archives, Research & Public Initiatives

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Alongside his artistic practice, Guez has developed a number of long-term archival and public initiatives dedicated to the preservation and circulation of community histories. Among them is the Samira Munayer Archive  (est. 2006), an evolving collection originating from the Munayer family archive and expanded through contributions from families across Palestine and the broader Mediterranean region. Through processes of preservation, digitization, cataloguing, and public access, the archive has become a significant repository of photographs, documents, and vernacular histories.

 

These initiatives function not only as research platforms but also as living sites of cultural transmission, bringing together artists, scholars, curators, students, and community members around questions of memory, documentation, and historical preservation.

 

​SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research

 

Since 2018, Guez has directed SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research, an independent artist-led platform based in Athens. Through international residencies, research programs, public events, lectures, and institutional partnerships, SeaPort supports curators, artists, and cultural practitioners working across the Mediterranean and beyond. The program serves as a site for critical exchange, fostering new networks and conversations between local and international art communities.

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Exhibitions 

 

Guez has presented over 65 solo exhibitions internationally at institutions including Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2023); Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück (2023); Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey (2022); MAMBO – Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá (2022); Kunst im Kreuzgang, Bielefeld (2021); and Futura Gallery, Prague (2020).

 

Earlier solo exhibitions include the American Colony Archive, Jerusalem (2019); MAN Museum, Nuoro (2018); DEPO, Istanbul (2017); Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2016); Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2015); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (2013); Artpace, San Antonio (2013); The Mosaic Rooms, London (2013); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2010); and Petach Tikva Museum of Art (2009).

 

Selected group exhibitions include Rencontres International, Loods6, Amsterdam (2025); the 24th Bienal de Arte Paiz, Guatemala City & Antigua Guatemala (2025–2026); K21 – Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2025–2026); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2023); The Jewish Museum, New York (2021); Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2020); Susquehanna Art Museum (2019); Musée des Beaux-Arts, France (2018); MODEM Museum, Hungary (2018); Brown University, Providence (2017); Arab World Institute, Paris (2017); CEPA Gallery, Buffalo (2017); UNTREF Museum, Buenos Aires (2016); and Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (2016).

 

Additional presentations include the North Coast Art Triennial, Denmark (2016); Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro (2015); the 17th, 18th, and 19th editions of Videobrasil, São Paulo (2011, 2013, 2015); the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2013); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011); and the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana (2010), among others.

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Publications

 

Guez’s work has been the subject of nine internationally published books and monographs, released by publishers including Kerber Verlag, Distanz, New England Press, and the A. M. Qattan Foundation.

 

Contact

 

Dor Guez is based between Athens and Jaffa.

 

He is represented by Dvir Gallery (Paris, Brussels, Tel Aviv), Goodman Gallery (London, Johannesburg, Cape Town, New York), and Carlier-Gebauer Gallery (Berlin, Madrid).

 

Studio

Velissariou 11
Athens 11471
Greece

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