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Birth Name:

Wafaa Bilal

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Jun 10, 1966

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Najaf, An Najaf, Iraq

Age:

57

Zodiac Sign:

Gemini

Astrology Data:

Sun

19°

Gem

2'

About Wafaa Bilal

Dr. Wafaa Bilal (Arabic: وفاء بلال‎ [wæfæ bɪlˤɑːlˤ]; born June 10, 1966) is an Iraqi American artist, a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an art professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is a Creative Capital Award winner in 2021 for his project In a Grain of Wheat: Cultivating Hybrid Futures in Ancient Seed DNA and named one of Foreign Policy magazine's Leading 100 Global Thinkers in 2016 for his work as an advocate. Bilal’s work, Canto III, was included as part of the Iranian pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale. Bilal’s current work 168:01 brings awareness to cultural destruction and promotes the collective healing process through education and audience participation. He is best known for his work, Domestic Tension, a performance piece in which he lived in a gallery for a month and was shot by paintballs remotely by internet users watching from a webcam and for his book, Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life, and Resistance under the Gun, based on that performance, which details the horrors of living in a conflict zone and growing up under Saddam Hussein's regime. He holds a BFA from the University of New Mexico, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was conferred an honorary Ph.D. from DePauw University.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Official website

• Shoot an Iraqi article in The National

• "Bilal and the media" article in F Newsmagazine

• Interview with Bilal from Network Performance Daily

• Interview with Bilal from F Newsmagazine

• Wafaa Bilal's page at YouTube, including daily dispatches from Domestic Tension

• Iraqi Artist Makes a Point with Virtual Paintballs by NPR All Things Considered

• 105,000 Tattoos: Iraqi Artist Turns His Own Body into a Canvas to Commemorate Dead Iraqis & Americans

• CNN coverage of "3rd I"

• The Guardian's coverage of "168:01"

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Wafaa Bilal: Sun 19 Gemini, Moon 9 Pisces, Mercury 4 Cancer, Venus 11 Taurus, Mars 8 Gemini, Jupiter 7 Cancer, Saturn 28 Pisces, Uranus 15 Virgo, Neptune 20 Scorpio, Pluto 15 Virgo, Sun Square Pluto, Sun Square Uranus, Sun Quincunx Neptune, Mercury Conjunct Jupiter, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Venus Sextile Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Saturn, Venus Trine Uranus, Venus Trine Pluto, Mars Semi Sextile Jupiter, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Uranus Conjunct Pluto

Categories related to Wafaa Bilal: Living people, American performance artists, June 10 births, 1966 births, University of New Mexico alumni, Tisch School of the Arts faculty, Iraqi emigrants to the United States, School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni, People from Najaf, Iraqi Shia Muslims, American people of Iraqi descent, Iraqi refugees, School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty, Iraqi contemporary artists, Video game developers, American Shia Muslims