Born in El Salvador to a Salvadoran-Palestinian-Christian father and a French-Polish-Jewish mother, Muriel Hasbun addresses migration, memory and cultural identity in her work. An artist, professor, and founder of laberinto projects --a transnational arts education initiative between El Salvador and its U.S. diaspora-- she is the recipient of numerous distinctions, including a Brandywine Workshop Residency, Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist at Rutgers University, CENTER Santa Fe’s Producer’s and Curator’s Choice awards, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Photography and Media, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Howard Chapnick Grant, Corcoran’s Outstanding Creative Research Faculty Award, and Fulbright Scholar Grant. Her work has been exhibited at art venues such as the Venice Biennale, Rencontres d’Arles, and FotoFest, and collected internationally at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museo del Barrio, Art Museum of the Americas, International Center of Photography, Inter-American Development Bank, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and others.
