Tarek Al-Ghoussein Explained

Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Native Name:Arabic: طارق الغصين
Native Name Lang:Arabic
Birth Date:17 January 1962
Birth Place:Kuwait
Citizenship:Kuwait
Death Place:New York City, USA
Occupation:artist

Tarek Al-Ghoussein (Arabic: طارق الغصين; 17 January 1962[1] – 11 June 2022),[2] [3] was a Kuwaiti multi-genre artist best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture, and performance art. His work moved away from subjects of land, belonging, nostalgia and barriers and instead gravitated toward the metaphorical transit to his ancestral homeland - Palestine. He moved between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places.[4]

Career

Tarek Al-Ghoussein was born in Kuwait to Kuwaiti parents of Palestinian ancestry who were originally displaced from their ancestral homeland in Ramleh, Palestine. His father, Talat Al-Ghoussein, was a famous Kuwaiti journalist, editor and a diplomat who served as the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United States during the 1960s.[5] His family moved a lot during his childhood between Kuwait, United States, Morocco, and Japan. He received his bachelor's degree in photography from New York University and completed his master's degree in Fine Arts from University of New Mexico. He held several positions during his career, worked as a photojournalist, taught photography at the American University of Sharjah, and at the time of his death was a professor at New York University branch in Abu Dhabi.[6]

Selected exhibitions

Collection

Tarek's work has been collected by numerous museums and foundations worldwide such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; Darat Al-Funun, Amman, Jordan; Mathaf Museum, Doha, Qatar; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; British Museum, London, UK; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, and the Sharjah Art Foundation in Sharjah, UAE.

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Book: In Absentia: Photographs by Tarek Al-Ghoussein . 9789812458056 . Al-Ghoussein . Tarek . Persekian . Jack . 2009 . June 12, 2022 . June 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615183304/https://books.google.com/books?id=xUnrAAAAMAAJ&q=tarek+Al-Ghoussein+January+17+%2C+1962 . live .
  2. Web site: UAE: Tarek al Ghoussein, NYUAD professor and artist, dies at 60 . June 12, 2022 . June 15, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220615183306/https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-tarek-al-ghoussein-nyuad-professor-and-artist-dies-at-60 . live .
  3. Web site: Kuwaiti artist Tarek Al-Ghoussein dies aged 60 in New York . June 12, 2022 . June 12, 2022 . June 14, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220614185206/https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/06/12/kuwaiti-artist-tarek-al-ghoussein-dies-aged-60-in-new-york/ . live .
  4. News: April 19, 2011 . Art, diplomatically deployed . live . August 8, 2015 . . June 28, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150628141034/http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/04/tarek_al-ghoussein .
  5. Web site: Seaman . Anna . Tarek Al Ghoussein to represent Kuwait at the 55th Venice Biennale . dead . August 8, 2015 . May 11, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150511203843/http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/tarek-al-ghoussein-to-represent-kuwait-at-the-55th-venice-biennale .
  6. Book: Mikdadi . Salwa . New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century . September 7, 2009 . Thames & Hudson Ltd . 978-0-500-97698-2.
  7. Book: Al-Ghoussein . Tarek . Transfigurations: Tarek Al-Ghoussein . 2014 . Black Dog Publishing . 978-1-908966-61-2.
  8. Book: Ghoussein . Tarek Al- . In Absentia: Photographs by Tarek Al- . 2009 . Third Line . 978-0-14-312018-6.

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