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

  • 2015: Kahil Award for Best Graphic Novel (with Donia Maher and Ahmad Nady)
  • 2016: Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy
  • 2021: Eric Hoffer Award, 1st Runner Up Chapbook (with Elliott Colla)
  • 2023: MoCCA Award of Excellence
  • 2023: Kahil Award for Best Comics



Photo by Faith47



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 appeared in 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 commissioned by clients across music, entertainment, and publishing. He is also a regular speaker at universities and colleges.

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 a Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy in 2016. Ganzeer also won Lebanon’s prestigious Kahil Award for Best Comics in 2023 for his work on the short comic Mouthfail. His work has been prominently featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Nation, CNN, the BBC, and more.

Ganzeer has been an artist-in-residence in Germany, Poland, Jordan, Holland, Hawaii, and Finland, and has traveled widely across Europe, Latin America, North Africa, and Asia and lived in multiple cities throughout the United States. He now divides his time primarily between Houston and Cairo.

Email

shout@ganzeer.com

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