The participation March 2014
Kevork Mourad was born in 1970 in Kamechli, a town in the upper
reaches of Syria. After getting a masters from Yerevan Institute of
Fine Arts in Armenia, Mourad got the idea to combine his world of
visual art with his love for music. With his technique of
spontaneous painting, where he shares the stage with musicians—a
collaboration in which art and music develop in counterpoint to each
other—he has worked with many world class musicians. Among them are
Kinan Azmeh, Ezequiel Viñao, Tambuco, Brooklyn Rider, Mari Kimura,
Ken Ueno, Liubo Borissov, Eve Beglarian, Rami Khalife, Maya Trio,
SYOTOS, Song Fusion, and Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, of
which he is a member as a visual artist. He has performed at the
Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Chelsea Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum
of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Chess Festival of
Mexico City, The Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art
in Yerevan, Le Festival du Monde Arabe in Montreal, the Stillwater
Festival, the Nara Museum in Japan, the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Rubin Museum of Art, Harvard University, the American Museum of
Natural History, Lincoln Center, Central Park’s Summerstage, and the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
