Jad El Khoury

CV

Personal details:
Titles: Architect and Artist – Date of birth: 29/09/1988 – Place of birth: Baabda, Lebanon – Nationality: Lebanese
Contact info: Mobile: 0047 98810989 – Email: jadelkhoury@hotmail.com – Website: jadelkhouryart.com – Instagram: @jadelkhoury.art
Languages: Fluent in spoken and written English, French, Arabic.
Digital softwares: Advanced level in Autocad, Photoshop, Blender, InDesign.

Education:
2019 to 2022 – Master in art and public space from Oslo national academy of the art.
2012 to 2014 – Master in architecture from the Lebanese university of fine arts.
2009 to 2012 – Bachelor in architecture from the Lebanese university of fine arts.

Scenography experience:
-”Ruth Reese” performed at Nordic Black Theater and Oslo Opera House – Oslo, Norway 2022
-”Hope Road 56 revisited” performed at Nordic Black Theater and Oslo Opera House – Oslo, Norway 2024

Awards and art residencies:
Nordic artist’s center Dale art residency – Dale, Norway 2024
-Åfjord art residency – Åfjord, Norway 2023
-Work grant from BKV – Norway 2023
-Rådhuset I Oslo, Atelier at Oslo city hall for 2022 to 2025
-Kulturrådet Kunstnerstipen – Oslo, Norway 2022
-BKH Kunststudentstipend x2 – Oslo, Norway 2021 and 2022
-Mildreds lane art residency – New York, USA 2022
-Prakisis art residency – Oslo, Norway 2021
Cité des arts residency – Paris, France 2020
-Nuart Festival art residency – Stavanger, Norway 2019
-Farm cultural park art residency – Sicily, Italy 2019
-Arte Laguna Venice – Main prize for Urban art and land art – Venice, Italy 2019
-Fallani serigrafia art residency – Venice, Italy 2017

Previous installations:
-”Healing Blanket” – Gallery F15 – Moss, Norway 2022
-”Care Portal” – STRAAT street art museum – Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2021
-”Winking House” – Nitja art center – Lillestrøm, Norway 2021
-”Halle aux vents” – Halle aux sucres art center – Dunkirk, France 2019-”13th of April” – Beirut national museum – Beirut, lebanon 2019
-”Beirut pavilion” – Farm Cultural Park – Sicily, Italy 2019
-”Beirut” – Nuart street art festival – Stavanger, Norway 2019
-”Burj el Hawa” – Independent project on Murr tower – Beirut, Lebanon 2018
-”War piece” – Independent project – Beirut, Lebanon

Solo exhibitions:
-”Soft shields” – Gallery Tanit – Beirut, Lebanon 2023
-”Curtain show” – Nordic black theater – Oslo, Norway 2022
-”Burj El Hawa” – Platform 39 gallery – Beirut, Lebanon 2018
-”Connection” – French institute gallery – Beirut, Lebanon 2018
-”Road to Black” – CAP contemporary art platform – Kuwait city, Kuwait 2017
-”War piece” – Al Bustan – Beitmerri, Lebanon 2017

Group exhibitions:
-”Anti action figures” for “Everything could go” at Mildred’s Lane – New York, USA 2022
-”Winking man” for KHIO graduation exhibition and ROM architecture triennale exhibition – Oslo, Norway 2022
-”Single Woman” – FA gallery – Kuwait city, Kuwait 2016

Public talks and presentations:
-National Museum (Natinal memorial proposal) – Oslo, Norway 2024
-OsloMet – Oslo Norway 2023-Grape architects – Oslo, Norway 2020
-UTS School of architecture (Cities under surveillance project) – Sydney, Australia 2019
-TEDx LAU Lebanese American University – Beirut, Lebanon

Design works:
-Zebox offices (Mural paintings and installations) – Washington, USA 2019
-Swatch (Spring collection, limited edition watch design) – Sold worldwide 2019
-Alghanim International (Artworks for Head office) – Kuwait city, Kuwait 2019
-Solana (Spring collection, limited edition shoes design) – New York, USA 2019
-IXIR winery (Summer edition, Wine labels design) – Beirut, Lebanon 2016

Architecture Experience:
-Al Ghanim International worked on SAASCC project – Kuwait city, Kuwait – From December 2015 to June 2016.
-Hapsitus worked on The Cloud of Dubai project – Beirut, Lebanon – From September 2014 to June 2015.
-Blank Workshop worked on various interior architecture projects – From January 2012 to September 2013.