فير زملر غاليري Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Bayan Kiwan

Bayan Kiwan (b. 1995, Amman) is a Palestinian-Jordanian artist based between New York City and Amman. She grew up in Tripoli, Libya and Abu Dhabi. Monumentalizing the mundane within the confines of the domestic, Kiwan’s research and practice are driven by questions of place, memory and the everyday. She is currently working with folds, wherein her paintings and ceramics linger on the minor details of intimacy that are severed by the occupation, evidencing the long and pervasive afterlife of dispossession.

1/5Bayan Kiwan, Intimate Trespasses, 2025, oil on canvas, 178.5 × 349.5 cm
2/5Bayan Kiwan, A Permanent Effort, 2023, oil on canvas, 134 × 224 cm
3/5Bayan Kiwan, All our diverse losses, 2025, oil on canvas, 140 × 102 cm
4/5Bayan Kiwan, Fold VIII, VI, XIX, III and V, 2025, glazed ceramics, various dimensions, unique
5/5Bayan Kiwan, Teapot with tongue and daggers, 2025, glazed ceramic, 14 × 26.5 × 15 cm, unique

Gallery Exhibitions

Exhibitions Beyond

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026

  • Intimate Trespasses, Sfeir-Semler Downtown, Beirut, Lebanon

2025

  • heat press fold bend, Brief Histories, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Blind Date 2.0, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon

2023

  • Blind Date 2.0, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

  • Familiar Like Skin, Transmitter Gallery, New York, USA

2022

  • Works on Paper, Harkawik Gallery, New York, USA

2020

  • Far Away So Close, The Gallatin Galleries, New York, USA

  • Amman-Beirut, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan

Residencies

2026

  • CAPACETE Residency, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Tilal Utique, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia

2023

  • Mophradat: New Agents, Brussels, Belgium

2020

  • Arriving Elsewhere II, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

  • Internet of Things Another World is Possible, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan

2019

  • Arriving Elsewhere, AlQamar AlQamar, Wadi Rum, Jordan

2017

  • Spring Sessions: Art of the Possible, Amman, Jordan

Education

2025

  • MFA in Studio Art, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA

2021

  • MA in Gender, Sexuality and Arab Studies, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York, USA

2017

  • BFA in Painting and Drawing, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan