Muriel Hasbun

2024 Stepping Stone Grantee

Bio

Muriel Hasbun’s expertise as a multidisciplinary artist and educator focuses on issues of cultural identity, migration, diaspora, and memory. Distinctions include: Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Howard Chapnick Grant, Fulbright Scholar Grant, and representing El Salvador in the 50th Venice Biennale. Building upon her socially engaged art and teaching practice, Hasbun is the founder and director of laberinto projects, an arts, education, and cultural memory initiative. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally: American University Museum, Art Museum of the Americas, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Corcoran Gallery of Art, International Center of Photography, FotoFest, Lehigh University, Museo del Barrio, Rencontres d’Arles, Smithsonian American Art Museum, University of Texas, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others.

Pulse: Pulsante deseo / Self-portrait (Homage, Carlos Cañas), from the series 'Pulse: New Cultural Registers / Pulso: Nuevos registros culturales', 2020Archival pigments on Canson Edition Etching Rag or on anodized aluminum plate20 × 30 inches