Tarek Al-Ghoussein is a Kuwaiti visual artist of Palestinian origin, best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture and performance art.
Background
Tarek Al-Ghoussein was born in Kuwait, his parents were Palestinian exiles who were unable to visit their native home. His father, Talat Al-Ghoussein, was a journalist, editor and a diplomat who served as the Kuwait ambassador to the United States in the 1960s.
Education
He received his bachelor's degree in photography from New York University and completed his master's degree in Fine Arts from University of New Mexico.
Career
He moves between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places. His family moved a lot during his childhood between Kuwait, United States, Morocco and Japan. He held several positions during his career, worked as a photojournalist, taught photography at the American University of Sharjah and is currently a professor at New York University branch in Abu Dhabi.
1995 Zwemmers Fine Photographs, London, UK Tarek's work is collected by several museums and foundations worldwide such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Royal Museum of Photography, Copenhagen.