Serge Hamad is a French/Algerian self-taught visual artist based in NY. The artist started photography at a very young age. In the mid-eighties, he used both video and photography as media to cover war zones and report on sociopolitical situations, such as in Iraq and the Balkans… Exposed to both Western and Eastern culture at a young age, he feels that “An artwork is successful when once injected into the communication channels it manages to awaken a dialog.” Yet Serge Hamad also makes room in his oeuvre for more light-hearted works. Turning an expressive, realistic image into abstraction, he shifts colors and blurs them into reality between photography and digital rendering in his Temporal Perception series. In 2010, Serge Hamad dedicated his time mainly to Fine Art photography and Interactive and kinetic sculptures. Since then, his works have been exhibited in over twenty galleries across several countries and have also been auctioned on Artsy, at Christie’s London, and by the Robert Wilson Water Mill Foundation. He has also successfully exhibited in major art fairs such as Art Basel, Art Miami, Scope, Intersect Aspen, and the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, to name a few. Furthermore, he maintains a strong presence on major art platforms like Artsy, Artspace/Phaidon, and the Samsung Art Store.
