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INTRODUCING THE 2022 IMPART ARTIST GRANT RECIPIENTS

QAIC is excited to announce the recipients of our 2022 IMPART Artists Grants: Roger Mokbel, Hosey Corona and Nura Dhar.

We were humbled by the large number of applications from various artists in Qatar, America and beyond. We are grateful to all who submitted their proposals.  

The selected grantees will share their artwork to be exhibited as part of our IMPART Artists exhibition in May of this year. Once again, we congratulate the three recipients of the 2022 IMPART Artist Grants on this achievement and opportunity. 

Roger Mokbel

Originally a biotechnology engineer, Roger Mokbel established himself as a self-taught Lebanese photographer by using his visual works asa plea for social justice. 

His work explores the intersection between the personal and the collective. Always socially engaged, he is fascinated in studying the multiple layers through which a topic can be approached. In his storytelling projects, he has often used human psychology as a point of entry to address societal and environmental concerns. 

His first project ‘Describe the sky to me’ was selected by the Arab Documentary Photography Program in 2018 and received the Photography Prize by the Boghossian Foundation in 2019. His second project ‘And then, they just left’ was exhibited at the Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux in 2021 and in Madrid as part of the official selection of PhotoEspaña 2022. 

He is a member of Collectif 1200, a collective of Lebanese photographers and visual artists. 

Hosey Corona

Hoesy Corona (based in the U.S.) is a Queer Latinx artist creating uncategorized and multidisciplinary art, spanning installation, performance and sculpture. He is a current Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center Public Humanities Fellow 2022-2023 at the Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries. Hoesy has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and public spaces in the United States and internationally including recent solo exhibitions: Weathering (2022) at The Kreeger Museum presented by The Nicholson Project in DC; Sunset Moonlight (2021) at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD; and Alien Nation (2017) at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presented by Transformer in DC. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the Mellon Foundation’s MAP Fund Grant, the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund Grant, and the Restoring Hope, Restoring Trust Artist in Residence at Wabash College. His work has been reviewed by The Washington Post, Bmore Art Magazine, and The American Scholar, among others. 

Nura Dhar

Nura Dhar is a junior in the competitive five-year combined undergraduate dual degree program at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she studies apparel design. Her passion for design is filed by her experiences in which objects of traditional craftsmanship are vehicles of conveying culture, politics, social rites and communities.

Nura Dhar is a junior in the competitive five-year combined undergraduate dual degree program at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where she studies apparel design. Her passion for design is filed by her experiences in which objects of traditional craftsmanship are vehicles of conveying culture, politics, social rites and communities.