Meet the Artist
Nour Shantout
(b. 1991, Damascus) Nour Shantout is an artist and researcher. She began studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2009 and continued her work abroad. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut (2014), the Helen Khal prize (2014), and pursued her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received a diploma in Fine Arts from the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Textual Sculpture, Prof. Heimo Zobernig) in 2020. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Philosophy from the same academy and is a visiting lecturer at IZK the Institute for Contemporary Art, Architecture Faculty of the Graz University of Technology. In 2021, her research-based project "Searching for the New Dress" received the Production Award; Culture Resource, as well as The Visual Arts grant; The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (Beirut). Shantout has shown her work internationally. In 2022, she had her solo exhibition Searching for the New Dress at Minuseins Offspace, Vienna. Austria and at Stroboskop Art Space, Warsaw, Poland. Her articles have appeared in JEEM, Al-Jumhuriya, and elsewhere. She works around subjugated heritage, counter-memory, labor, and alienation, from a post-colonial feminist perspective.