Mohamad Hafez Explained

Mohamad Hafez
Native Name:Arabic: محمد حافظ
Birth Place:Damascus, Syria
Nationality:Syrian-American
Education:Damascus University Iowa State University

Mohamad Hafez (ar|محمد حافظ; born 1984) is a Syrian-American artist and architect living in the United States. His work primarily explores around the stories and dislocation of Syrian refugees.[1] [2]

Early life

Hafez was born in 1984 in Syria.[3] He emigrated to the United States in 2003,[4] on a visa to study architecture at the University of Iowa.[5]

Work

Hafez is best known for his miniature diorama works, which depict daily life in Syria, which he has been creating since 2004.[6] [7] His 2017 work Unpacked: Refugee Baggage is a series of miniature dioramas based on interviews that conducted with refugees from the Syrian war.[8] It is intended to humanize the refugee subjects.[9]

In 2021, The New Yorker produced a short film on Hafez's work, directed by Jimmy Goldblum and titled A Broken House.[10] [1] The film later aired on the PBS series POV during the POV Shorts installment "Where I'm From."[11]

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: A Syrian Artist Remakes the Home He Cannot Visit. August 18, 2021. The New Yorker.
  2. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Art of Now, Dreaming of Damascus. BBC.
  3. Web site: Mohamad Hafez’s Complex Models of Syrian Devastation . Art21 Magazine.
  4. Web site: Mohamad Hafez: how he uses artwork to celebrate Syria's past . the Guardian . en . 20 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Khan . Aina . ‘I start by looking at dramatic photos of destruction’ . www.aljazeera.com . en.
  6. Web site: Watching The War For His Native Syria, Artist Mohamad Hafez Sculpts Models Of A Ravaged Homeland . www.wbur.org . en.
  7. Web site: Halpern . Jake . An Artist’s Obsession with the Ruins of His Homeland .
  8. News: Cole. Diane. Artist Creates Tiny Houses from the memories of Refugees. May 24, 2021.
  9. Babaee. Mohamadreza. 2020. Performing (In)visible Bodies in Unpacked: Refugee Baggage. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 34. 2. 53–70. 10.1353/dtc.2020.0008. 220495008.
  10. Web site: 'A Broken House': Syrian artist Mohamad Hafez is the focus of new short documentary . The National.
  11. New Hampshire PBS. "POV Shorts: Where I'm From" (program description).
  12. Web site: Lopez . Natalina . Exhibit gives refugee crisis a human face . yaledailynews.com.
  13. Web site: Refugee Stories Come to Life in "UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage" . Yatzer . en . 15 October 2018.
  14. Web site: Unsettled Nostalgia, a Solo Exhibition by Syrian Artist Mohamad Hafez . Islamic Arts Magazine . en.
  15. Web site: Ambery . N. F. . New Haven's Mohamad Hafez, a Syrian refugee, tells story through art . New Haven Register . 12 February 2016.
  16. Web site: DUNNE . SUSAN . Syrian Refugees' Suffering Reflected In Real Art Ways Exhibits . courant.com.
  17. Web site: UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage . Center for Design and Material Culture . 1 June 2020.
  18. Web site: Unpacked: Refugee Baggage. 2021-06-01. Unpacked: Refugee Baggage. en-US.
  19. Web site: Martin . Malea . Mohamad Hafez's Retrospective exhibit asks viewers to find the 'common denominator' in our lived experiences . New Times San Luis Obispo . en.
  20. Web site: Edge Of Arabia - Contemporary art and creative movements from the Arab World. 2021-06-01. edgeofarabia.com.
  21. Web site: Brooklyn Museum . www.brooklynmuseum.org.

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