ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

HADY BEYDOUN

Born 1974, Beirut. Lives and works in Beirut.

Hady Beydoun is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, product design, and digital media. His practice interrogates systems of power, belief, and mass conditioning through the transformation of cultural symbols and material forms.

Drawing from consumer culture, mythology, and psychological archetypes, he reconfigures familiar objects and figures into confrontational structures. His work operates through tension between desire and control, tradition and disruption, the material and the ideological.

Across media, form is reduced, exaggerated, or destabilized, exposing the mechanisms that shape identity and collective behavior. Hady’s practice resists narrative closure, functioning instead as a sustained inquiry into manipulation, freedom, and the human condition.

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Hady Beydoun’s practice investigates contemporary systems of belief, consumption, and identity through material transformation and symbolic reduction. Working across sculpture, painting, design, and digital media, he appropriates familiar forms and cultural references, repositioning them as instruments of psychological and social inquiry.

Central to Beydoun’s work is the reconfiguration of consumer objects and archetypal figures. Removed from their original function, these forms expose the structures of desire, control, and conditioning embedded in everyday life. Material excess is stripped back to reveal its ideological and spiritual implications.

Beydoun’s figures and surfaces are deliberately destabilized, exaggerated, fragmented, or confrontational. Rather than offering narrative or resolution, the works operate as reflective devices, confronting the viewer with states of addiction, disillusionment, sensuality, and absurdity that define the contemporary human condition.

Across all media, Beydoun’s work resists decoration and comfort. It functions as a sustained examination of how collective systems shape individual consciousness, inviting viewers to confront the psychological mechanisms underlying modern existence.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Espace 22, Monaco - 2025
  • Spectrum, Miami Art Basel Week - 2024
  • Espace 22, Monaco - 2024
  • Monaco Boat Show - 2024
  • Grimaldi Forum, Monaco - 2024
  • Art Riviera Tour, St. Jean Cape Ferrat, France - 2024
  • World Art Dubai – 2024
  • Art Scene Gallery Beirut – 2023
  • Art District Gallery Beirut – 2022
  • Maison des Artistes Beirut – 2022
  • Art in Space / Foundry Dubai – 2022
  • Hunna art exhibition – ABC Beirut – 2021
  • Jacques Ouaiss Gallery Beirut – 2017
  • Jacques Ouaiss Gallery Beirut – 2014
  • American University of Beirut – 2014