Photo by Ed Tadevossian
Kevork Mourad, visual artist
New York-based artist Kevork Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation in concert with musicians, developing a collaboration in which art and music harmonize with one another. Counted among his diverse collaborators are Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian, and PCE, and they stretch from North America to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Mr. Mourad premiered his animated film, Four Acts for Syria, at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and was the 2016 recipient of the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize. His works are in the permanent collection of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.
Recent commissions include Seeing Through Babel, a 20-foot drawing-sculpture which is currently on exhibit at the Asia Society Triennial in New York; the visuals for the Korea National Opera’s production of Beethoven’s Fidelio; and Well Wish Ya, a dance performance piece with the OYO (Ombetja Yehinga Organisation) Dance Troupe in Namibia. Mr. Mourad has been a resident teaching artist at Brandeis University, Harvard University, and College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA). Born in Qamishli, Syria, Kevork Mourad received his Master of Fine Arts from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia.