During Wafaa Bilal’s childhood in Kufa, Iraq, his parents held one rule above all others: Do not, under any circumstances, talk about the regime. The young artist and his friends wondered if the walls ...

CHICAGO – When you look through the eyes of an artist, new perspectives can take shape. It’s a perspective formed a world away for Wafaa Bilal. His latest exhibit, “Indulge Me,” is currently on ...

Wafaa Bilal, "Rendering of Canto III" (2024) (© Wafaa Bilal, courtesy the artist) CHICAGO — Though Wafaa Bilal was born in Iraq and is based in New York, his survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art ...

Witness the innovative, exploratory, and provocative work of internationally renowned artist Wafaa Bilal in his first major museum survey, Indulge Me, now open at the Museum of Contemporary Art ...

Wafaa Bilal (right) is an Iraqi-American artist who had attended the University of Baghdad before the US invasion of Iraq. During the invasion, its library was destroyed. Now he plans to rebuild it ...

When Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal decided to sequester himself in a Chicago art gallery for 42 days with a paintball gun that people could aim and fire at him over the Internet, he thought he might get a ...

Giving new meaning to the phrase “Your body is a battleground,” Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal will get a tattoo next month containing one dot for every soldier and civilian who has died in the Iraq war.

New York University photography professor Wafaa Bilal has surgically attached a camera to the back of his head to capture images for an art installation, which will be held at the Arab Museum of ...

Wafaa Bilal, 44, who had a camera inserted in the back of his head for an art project, underwent surgery to remove part of the camera... Curses, Foiled Again Matthew Meguiar, 26, handed the teller at ...

An NYU professor whose big plan to document his life using a camera surgically implanted in the back of his head has hit a snag. You'll recall that Wafaa Bilal, a provocative "performative and ...

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