Collecting
Institutions
Germany:
- University of Bayreuth
- The Bavarian State Library
United Arab Emirates:
- Barjeel Art Foundation
- The British Library
- National Museums Scottland
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The New York Public Library
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Connecticut
- Wellesly College
- Grinnell College
- Northwestern College
- Spencer Museum of Art
- Bryn Mawr College
- Columbia University
- University of Texas at San Antonio
-
RISD Museum
- Letterform Archive
- The Arab American National Museum
- Rice University
- University of Delaware
Awards
- Kahil Award for Best Graphic Novel, 2015 (with Donia Maher and Ahmad Nady)
- Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy, 2016
- Eric Hoffer Award, 1st Runner Up Chapbook, 2021 (with Elliott Colla)
- MoCCA Award of Excellence, 2023
- Kahil Award for Best Comics, 2023
Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, combining a rich assortment of artmaking modes into an approach he calls Allschool.
With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s visual art has been seen in a wide variety of galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, and the V&A in London. His fiction has been published by Temple University Press, Vintage, and MIT Press, and his design work has been utilized by clients from a wide range of fields, such as music, enertainment, and publishing. He is also a regular speaker at universities and college campuses.
Ganzeer’s current major project is a serialized graphic novel titled THE SOLAR GRID, an epic work-in-progress that won the Society of Illustrators’ MoCCA Award of Excellence in 2023 and awarded Ganzeer the Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy in 2016. He has had the fortune of being prominently featured in a number of esteemed publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Nation, and more.
He has been an artist-in-residence in Germany, Poland, Jordan, Holland, Hawaii, and Finland, and has lived extensively in Cairo, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and finally Houston—where he is currently based.
With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s visual art has been seen in a wide variety of galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, and the V&A in London. His fiction has been published by Temple University Press, Vintage, and MIT Press, and his design work has been utilized by clients from a wide range of fields, such as music, enertainment, and publishing. He is also a regular speaker at universities and college campuses.
Ganzeer’s current major project is a serialized graphic novel titled THE SOLAR GRID, an epic work-in-progress that won the Society of Illustrators’ MoCCA Award of Excellence in 2023 and awarded Ganzeer the Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy in 2016. He has had the fortune of being prominently featured in a number of esteemed publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Nation, and more.
He has been an artist-in-residence in Germany, Poland, Jordan, Holland, Hawaii, and Finland, and has lived extensively in Cairo, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and finally Houston—where he is currently based.