Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, educator, and social justice activist, Doris Bittar is a 2023-2024 California Arts Council Legacy Artist for her art, community engagement, and mentoring of young artists. Bittar’s work is exemplified by patterns used as structure and often combined with text to explore overlapping colonial identities. Bittar views patterns as cultural DNA mutating in tandem with human migration and attached to codes of decorum. Bittar’s current project, Colonial Colonnade, now being shown at the Arab American National Museum in Michigan concretizes texts to examine how immersive environments conjure improvisational projections within Arab Futurism.

Bittar’s work has been shown in several international biennials, including the Venice Biennale 2015, Alexandria Biennial 2009-10, and the Sharjah Biennial 2009. Residencies include stays in  Berlin, Stuttgart, Ravenna, Sharjah, Alexandria, (Egypt), and the Arab American National Museum. Bittar is a founding member of Gulf Labor, participant in ArabAmp, Public Address, and taught studio art at the University of California San Diego, American University of Beirut, and Cal State University San Marcos. 

Bittar was born in Baghdad, Iraq to Lebanese and Palestinian parents who immigrated to the United States from Beirut when Bittar was 6 years old. Bittar has a BFA from the State University of New York and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. 
For more information visit Bittar’s website at www.DorisBittar.com