Dor Guez

Dor Guez is an artist whose work is shaped by acts of return to places, images, narratives, and material traces, revisited over years and sometimes decades to trace how their meanings shift over time. Moving between personal, communal, and institutional contexts, he considers how images, environments, and objects shape what can be seen, remembered, and transmitted.

His practice initially took shape through the experiences of three generations of his Palestinian family and community in Lydda, and later expanded to engage with the histories of his Jewish family from Tunisia. Working with personal documents, oral testimonies, archival materials, photography, film, and architectural sites, Guez examines the distance between historical events and the forms through which they are recorded and reconstructed.

In 2006, he established the Samira Munayer Archive, originating from his maternal family albums and later expanded through contributions from Palestinian families and communities. He is also the founder and director of SeaPort Art Center for Curatorial Research. His studio operates from Athens.

Guez has presented solo exhibitions internationally, including at Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Princeton University Art Museum; MAMBO – Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. He has participated in the Berlin Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Bienal de Arte Paiz, and Videobrasil.

His works are held in public collections including Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.