Muyassar Kurdi

Muyassar Kurdi is a Palestinian-American, New York City–based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, voice, movement, painting, analog photography, and film. Her practice honors both the futuristic and the ancient through meditative movement and sonic exploration. Centered on embodiment and a non-linear approach rooted in improvisation, she explores memory, displacement, and the body in relation to nature.

Kurdi has received support from NYFA’s Women’s Fund for Music, the American Composer Forum’s Create, and the Brooklyn Arts Fund, among others, including grants from the Queens Fund for New Works, NYFA City Artist Corps, and the Puffin Foundation. She was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in Combined Disciplines and has been commissioned by Roulette Intermedium, with additional residency support from the Jerome Foundation. Her work has been developed through residencies at Harvestworks and The Watermill Center with OPERA ensemble. Love is Blue, her solo interdisciplinary exhibition, opened in Fall 2023 at La MaMa Gallery in New York City. In 2025, she performed durational works of voice and movement within Otobong Nkanga’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her LP Mountains of Poetry was released in Fall 2025 with Bilna’es.

Performance highlights include Roulette Intermedium, Abrons Arts Center, Poetry Project (NYC), Center for Performance Research, Lincoln Center, the Rubin Museum of Art, Issue Project Room, Cafe OTO (London), the Chicago Cultural Center, Center for Contemporary Art Łaźnia (Gdańsk), Fridman Gallery, Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon), and Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church (NYC). Her work has also been presented through exhibitions and film screenings at VIERTE WELT (Berlin), Trieze Gallery (Paris), Knockdown Center, Queens Museum, Spectacle Theater, and Anthology Film Archives. She has led interdisciplinary workshops internationally, including at Zaratan – Arte Contemporânea (Lisbon), Bilgi University and Cultur (Istanbul), Maysles Documentary Center (NYC), and MoMA PS1.