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

Described as a “chameleon” by Carlo McCormick in the New York Times, Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, creating what he has coined: Concept Pop. His medium of choice according to Artforum is “a little bit of everything: stencils, murals, paintings, pamphlets, comics, installations, and graphic design.”

With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s work has been seen in a wide variety of art 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, Greek State Museum in Thessaloniki, the V&A in London, and the Edith Russ Haus in Oldenburg.


Ganzeer’s current projects include a short story collection titled TIMES NEW HUMAN, and a sci-fi graphic novel titled THE SOLAR GRID, an epic work-in-progress that won the 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, and Finland, and has lived extensively in Cairo, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and finally Houston—where he is now based.