Dor Guez Munayer is an artist working across photography, video, installation, sculpture, and performance. His practice is rooted in archival work and examines how historical knowledge is recorded and circulated through images and documentary systems. Working across family, community, and institutional archives, he brings vernacular photographs, personal documents, and official records into dialogue, treating the archive as a site where historical authority is negotiated.

Born in Jerusalem to a Palestinian family from Lydda and Jewish immigrants from North Africa, Guez’s first body of work focused on three generations of his family in Lydda, articulating the experience of being a “minority within a minority.” This became a defining framework for his subsequent practice, which expanded into sustained artistic, educational, and institutional forms of resistance.

In recent works, the witness is no longer exclusively human: plants, objects, architectural fragments, and landscapes function as carriers of historical evidence rather than metaphor. The work shifts attention from representation toward the conditions that determine what becomes visible or obscured, asking what remains accessible as evidence. This framework extends into an engagement with documentary systems shaped by both recording and structural absence.

Over more than two decades, Guez’s practice has expanded beyond individual works into long-term institutional, archival, and pedagogical infrastructures. It operates through conditions, spaces, protocols, and support structures through which cultural memory and forms of resistance are sustained. These include the "Samira Munayer Archive" (2006), the founding of "SeaPort" (2018), an independent art and research center in Athens, and ongoing engagements with cultural activism and support for art students. Guez’s recent survey exhibition, Catastrophe, presented at the Museum of Modern Art Bogotá, brought together a body of work addressing archival materials, community narratives, ecological traces, and the politics of representation. Based between Athens and Jaffa, his practice continues to develop artistic and research-based projects that engage the Mediterranean as both a historical space and a contemporary condition. 

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Community Programs & Institutional Initiatives

Over more than two decades, Guez’s studio practice has expanded beyond individual works into long-term institutional and pedagogical infrastructures, operating through conditions that sustain cultural transmission and forms of resistance. These include the Samira Munayer Archive  (est. 2006), an evolving collection originating from the Munayer family archive and expanded through contributions from families across Palestine diaspora, and SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research (est. 2018), an independent artist-led platform in Athens. Through processes of preservation, research, residencies, and public programming, these initiatives function as infrastructures for curatorial practice, cultural exchange, and the circulation of community-based knowledge.​

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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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Guez's performances combine photographs, archival materials, historical objects, and spoken analysis, and 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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Guez’s work has been the subject of 11 internationally publications and monographs, released by publishers including Kerber Verlag, Distanz, New England Press, and the A. M. Qattan Foundation.

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Contact

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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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