Michael Hambouz
Michael Hambouz (b. Niles, Michigan, 1977) is a Palestinian-American multidisciplinary artist, multi-instrumentalist musician, and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. The first-generation Palestinian-American creates chromaesthesia-influenced works – experiments in dimension and color, created under the guidance of music – to process bouts of loss and self-reflections on cultural identity. Experimenting freely with mediums, he encourages unexpected results and mutations in compositional form to bloom in the studio, resulting in conceptually abstracted paintings and prints, intricate paper cut outs, sculpture, drawings and animations. Hambouz received a B.A. in painting and sculpture with a minor in video from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH in 1999, and has been awarded two residencies with Wassaic Project in upstate New York. Solo/two-person exhibitions include Wassaic Project (NY), Future Fair (NYC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), chashama (NYC), Kayrock (NYC), The Krasl Art Center (St. Joseph, MI), 3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH), and a 20-year survey exhibition at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH) in 2018. Select group exhibitions include The National Arts Club (NYC), Andrew Edlin Gallery (NYC), IPCNY (NYC), Growroom//Showroom (NYC), Paradice Palase (NYC), Standard Space (Sharon, CT), Dominique Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Northern-Southern (Austin, TX), Eve Leibe Gallery (London, UK), The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking, (Bangor, N. Ireland). His art and curatorial work have been featured in Artnet News, Artsin Square Magazine, Create! Magazine, Design Milk, Hyperallergic, and Vice. His work is included in the collections of Antioch College, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, Niles History Center, and Fidelity Corporate Art Collection.
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