Kevork Mourad was born in Kameshli Syria, received his degree from the Yerevan institute of Fine Art, and now lives in New York. A painter and video artist, he has had his animated and live visuals performed around the world--at the Spoleto Festival in SC 2022), Korea National Opera in Seoul (2020), National Cathedral in DC (2020), Dutch Royal Palace for the Prince Claus Foundation (2016), Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (2018, 2012, 2010), Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (2018), Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA (2018), ElbPhilharmonie in Hamburg (2017), Tanglewood in MA (2016), National Sawdust in NYC (2016), MuCEM in Marseille (2015, 2013), The Round Tower of Copenhagen, (2013), and Lincoln Center in NYC (2012), among many others. His work is in the permanent collection of Paris's Institut du Monde Arabe and the Spurlock Museum. The 2016 recipient of the Robert Bosch Stiftung prize, he created the short film Four Acts for Syria. A member for two decades of the Silkroad ensemble, he is one of the artists featured in the documentary The Music of Strangers, directed by Morgan Neville. He has exhibited in galleries around the US, Europe and the Middle East, including the Asia Society Triennial in 2020, the Spurlock Museum, Illinois,(2020), the Paris Art Fair, (2019), the Rose Art Gallery, Boston (2017), the Claude Lemand Gallery, Paris (2016), Kuchling Galerie in Berlin (2019), and Tabari Art Space, Dubai, (2019). He is represented by Galerie Tanit, Beirut, and Studio La Cittá, Verona.
