Muriel Hasbun
2024 Stepping Stone Grantee
Bio
Muriel Hasbun’s expertise as a multidisciplinary artist and educator focuses on issues of cultural identity, migration, diaspora, and memory. Distinctions include: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Howard Chapnick Grant, Fulbright Scholar Grant, and representing El Salvador in the 50th Venice Biennale. Building upon her socially engaged art and teaching practice, Hasbun is the founder and director of laberinto projects, an arts, education, and cultural memory initiative. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally: American University Museum, Art Museum of the Americas, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Corcoran Gallery of Art, International Center of Photography, FotoFest, Lehigh University, Museo del Barrio, Rencontres d’Arles, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Texas, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.
Artwork details
Pulse: Pulsante deseo / Self-portrait (Homage, Carlos Cañas), from the series 'Pulse: New Cultural Registers / Pulso: Nuevos registros culturales'
, 2020Archival pigments on Canson Edition Etching Rag or on anodized aluminum plate20 × 30 inches
Pulse Replicas
, 2020Pigment print20 × 60 inches
Je me souviens, c. 1945
, 1986Chromogenic print10 7/16 × 8 ×/18 inches
Todos los santos (Volcán de Izalco, amén) / All the Saints (Izalco Volcano, Amen), from the series 'Santos y sombras / Saints and Shadows' (1991-1997)
, 1995–1996Gelatin silver print14 × 18 inches
Scheherazade or (Per)forming the Archive
, 2016Installation view of single channel video projection, 'Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño, International Center of Photography'13:49 mins
Pulse: Pulsante deseo / Self-portrait (Homage, Carlos Cañas), from the series 'Pulse: New Cultural Registers / Pulso: Nuevos registros culturales', 2020. Archival pigments on Canson Edition Etching Rag or on anodized aluminum plate. 20 × 30 inches.