Mohamad Abdouni
Mohamad Abdouni is an artist, photographer, filmmaker and curator based in Beirut. He is also Editor in-Chief and Creative Director of COLD CUTS magazine, the photo journal exploring queer cultures in SWANA.
His work has been exhibited namely at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, LAfayette Anticipations, L’Institut du Monde Arab, Art Basel by Paris+ and the Institute of Islamic Culture in Paris, the FOAM Gallery in Amsterdam, Patel Brown in Toronto, and the Lyon Biennale amongst many others. He is also the recipient of the 2023 LaFayette Anticipations prize.
His films have been screened and awarded at festivals such as Eyes Wide Open and the Leeds Queer Film Festival in the UK, IQMF in Amsterdam, The Brooklyn Museum and Woodbury LGBTQ Film Festival in the US, and Pink Apple Schwullesbisches Lesbian & Gay Film Festival in Switzerland to name some.
Commercially, he has shot for and directed films and music videos with the likes of Gucci, Vogue US, Vogue Italia, Burberry, Puma, The New York Times, Slate, Fendi, Farfetch, GQ, King Kong, Dazed, Another, Nowness, Vice UK and L’officiel.
His personal endeavors tend to focus on the untold stories of Beirut and uncovering the rich yet eradicated queer histories of the Arab-speaking region through several documentaries and photo stories that have been featured in publications from A24, Telerama, Foam Magazine, Rizzoli, Tetu, New Queer Photography, Kaleidoscope, i-D, Photoworks, The Guardian and more.
