Muriel Hasbun

Muriel Hasbun’s expertise as an artist and educator focuses on issues of cultural identity and memory. Through an intergenerational, transnational and transcultural lens, Hasbun constructs contemporary narratives and establishes a space for dialogue where individual and collective memory spark new questions about identity and place.

Hasbun is the recipient of numerous distinctions, including awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, CENTER Santa Fe, the Howard Chapnick Grant of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, the US Department of State, the American Association of Museums, and the Fulbright Program. She has undertaken residencies at University of Colorado Boulder, the Centro Cultural de España in San Salvador, and the Escuela de Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her photo-based work has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous private and public collections.

Building upon her socially engaged art and teaching practice, Muriel Hsabun is the founder and director of laberinto projects, a transnational, cultural memory and education initiative that fosters contemporary art practices, social inclusion and dialogue in El Salvador and its US diaspora, through exhibitions, art education, artist residencies and community engagement. She is professor emerita at the GWU Corcoran School of Arts and Design and visiting artist/distinguished practitioner with the Noman/9 MFA program at the Hartford Art School. She received an MFA in Photography from George Washington University and an AB in French Literature from Georgetown University.