Collecting
Institutions

Germany:
    • University of Bayreuth
    • The Bavarian State Library


United Arab Emirates:
    • Barjeel Art Foundation

United Kingdom:
    • The British Library
    • National Museums Scottland

United States:
    • 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



Photo by Kris Lenore


Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, traversing and combining a rich assortment of artmaking modes in 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, often lecturing about the use of art as a tool of dissent and resisting oppression.


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 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.