Nour Ballout
February 1 through February 25, 2022
Kresge Artist Lecture: Wednesday, February 9, 6PM
Zoom Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/38efhywd
Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and are currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour’s work as a visual artist and curator is rooted in a social practice exploring the concept of home as it manifests within bodies, built environments, and communities. Photographic self-portraiture, collaboration, and space making intersect in the interpretation and dissemination of their experience coming home to their body and the world as a trans-masculine queer immigrant. By reconsidering the right to look; the paradoxes of representation, access, and privacy collide.
They are the recipient of the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, the 2019 Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award, and the 2019 Applebaum Photography Fellowship. Nour has exhibited their work across the United States and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit and Flux Factory in New York.
Untitled, Body of work Transition | Transformation 2021, by Nour Ballout on exhibit February 3 through February 25, 2022, Woodward and E. Canfield, Detroit