Muriel Hasbun
solo + two-person exhibitions (selected)
2023
2022
- University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies, “Pulse: New Cultural Registers / Pulso: Nuevos registros culturales” (curator: Tatiana Reinoza), South Bend, IN.
2021
- Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series Galleries, “Muriel Hasbun: Seismic Traces,” (curator: Tatiana Flores), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, (online catalog, essay by Erina Duganne).
- RoFa Projects, “RECORD: Cultural Pulses,” (curator: Gabriela Rosso), Potomac, MD.
2020
2019
- Brentwood Arts Exchange, “Documented: The Community Blackboard,” Brentwood, MD.
2018
- Gala Hispanic Theater, Muriel Hasbun: Foto-retratos / Photo-portraits, Washington, D.C.
2016
- Civilian Art Projects, “Muriel Hasbun and Caroline Lacey: Calling to You,” Washington, D.C.
- Centro Cultural de España, “ARTE VOZ,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
2015
- Centro Cultural de España, “legado y memoria: trazando el laberinto/legacy and memory: mapping the labyrinth,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
2012
- e-misférica, “X post facto”, New York University, NY, (online).
- University of Texas-Austin, “Archive and Memory,” Austin, TX.
2011
2010
- McKinney Avenue Contemporary - The MAC, “barquitos de papel and other stories,” Dallas, TX.
2009
- Warner Gallery, “Vessels & Vestiges,” O’Brien Arts Center, Saint Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE.
2008
- Lonsdale Gallery, “Memory, Identity and Remembrance,” Toronto, Canada.
2007
- NYU’s Hemispheric Institute & Centro Cultural Recoleta, “barquitos de papel,” Buenos Aires, Argentina, (catalog.)
2006
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Documented: The Community Blackboard,” Washington, D.C.
- Centro Cultural de España, “Terruño: detrás del telón / Backdrop: The Search for Home,” San Salvador, El Salvador, (catalog).
- FotoFest, International Biennial of Photography, “Trace,” JP Morgan Chase Tower, Heritage Gallery, Houston, TX, (catalog).
2004
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, “Memento: Muriel Hasbun Photographs,” Washington, D.C., (brochure).
2003
- Conner Contemporary Art, “Watched Over,” Washington, D.C..
2000
- Sol Mednick Gallery, “Santos y sombras,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
1999
- Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, D.C.CC, “Santos y sombras,” Washington, D.C., (brochure).
- Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, “Protegida: Auvergne--Toi et Moi,” Washington, D.C., (brochure).
1997
1996
- Centre Culturel, “Santos y sombras,” Octobre de la Photo, Agen, France.
- Galerie Le Bleu de Lectoure, L’eté photographique de Lectoure: “Santos y sombras,” France.
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Santos y sombras,” Gallery at the OAS, Washington, D.C., (brochure).
1989
- Galería Imaginaria, “Muriel Hasbun,” Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
1988
- Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, “Muriel Hasbun,” Gallery at the OAS, Washington, D.C., (brochure).
1986
- Galería el laberinto, “Muriel Hasbun-fotografías,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
group exhibitions (selected)
2024
2023
- Whitney Museum of American Art, “Trust Me,” New York, NY.
- DePaul Art Museum, “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities,” curated
by Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky, Chicago, IL, (book, Inventory Press).
2022
- Whitney Museum of American Art, “Time Management Techniques,” New York, NY.
- SWAB Barcelona Art Fair, “Entangled/Entretejidos,” Video Box 2022, Barcelona, Spain.
- Houston Center for Photography, “Beyond the Record,” curated by Dorota Biczel, Houston, TX.
- PS122 Gallery, “Entagled, Entretejidos,” New York, NY.
- University of New Mexico Art Museum, “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities,” curated by Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky, Albuquerque, NM.
- RoFa Projects/Beta Galería, “Reading Room: Current Words, Kentlands, MD.
- RoFa Projects/Beta Galería, In the Heart of the Beholder,” Kentlands, MD.
- Sala Nacional de Exposiciones Salarrué, “Imborrable: La tierra de nuestras memorias,” guest curator: Armando Perla, San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Memoria Galería, “América Anónima,” Madrid, Spain.
- Tufts University Art Galleries, “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities,” curated by Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky, Boston, MA (book, Inventory Press).
- Centro Cultural de España, “Artists Call NOW,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
2021
- Photoville, “On Turning 10: An i3 Family Album,” (curator: Jaime Permuth), Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY.
- Filter Space, 2021 Filter Photo Festival, “Collaborating with the Archive,” (guest curator: Mary Statzer), Chicago, IL.
- Centro Cultural de España, “Urdir la trama rota,” (guest curator: Elena Salamanca), San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Candela Gallery, “Photography is Dead…Long Live Photography!” Richmond, VA, (catalog).
2020
- Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, “Aceptar,” (guest curator: Irene Clouthier), Washington, DC.
- Art on Paper, “Edgar Endress, Erika Harrsch, Muriel Hasbun,” RoFa Projects, NY, NY.
2019
- George Mason University, “Migratory Aesthetics,” guest curated by RoFa Projects, Fairfax, VA.
- Trawick Prize Finalists Exhibition, Gallery B, Bethesda, MD.
- El Museo del Barrio, Culture and the People, 1969-2019, New York, NY.
2018
- Turchin Center for Visual Arts, Full Circle: 2018 CENTER Award Winners, Boone, NC.
- Ninoska Huerta Gallery, The Moon in the Mirror: A Gaze of Her Own, Coral Gables, FL.
- MARTE-Museo de Arte de El Salvador, Equis-Equis: 20 años del CCE, San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Family Film Project, Video-Installations: Scheherazade or (Per)forming the Archive, Porto, Portugal.
- IA&A at Hillyer, Revealed, Washington, D.C.
- The Athenaeum, Parallel Lives, Alexandria, VA.
2017
- Marion Center for Photographic Arts, CENTER Award Winners Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM, 2017.
- Decker and Meyerhoff Galleries, Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD.
- Betty Mae Kramer Gallery, “Post Memory: Photographs of a Certain Place and Time,” Silver Spring, MD.
2016
- PINTA MIAMI, “Of Fragile Things: Architecture and Desire – Ronald Morán, Muriel Hasbun and Beatriz Cortez,” Aluna Art Foundation, Miami, FL.
- American University Museum, Alper Initiative for Washington Art, “The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington, D.C.,” (catalog).
- Centro Cultural de España, “Vivencias: Legado,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Candela Books and Gallery, “Unbound 5!,” Richmond, VA.
- Sala Nacional de Exposiciones, “A cielo abierto: Construcciones espacio-temporales de género,“ San Salvador, El Salvador.
2015
- S. Embassy in Zagreb, Art in Embassies, “E Pluribus Unum,” Croatia, (catalog).
2014
- Rutgers University, Paul Robeson Galleries, “From There to Here,” Newark, NJ.
- Society for Photographic Education, “Off the Web, On the Wall,” Cleveland, OH.
- Notre Dame of Maryland University, Gormley Gallery, “Contested Divisions,” Baltimore, MD.
2013
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Gallery 31, “Inter Vivos: Margaret Adams, Gabriela Bulisova, Muriel Hasbun,” (guest curator: Michael Mazzeo), Washington, D.C..
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art,” Washington, D.C., (book; traveling).
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, “A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum” (guest curator: Merry Foresta), Washington, D.C., (online catalog).
- Hillyer Arts Space, “Of Place and Time,” (guest curator: Jarvis DuBois), Washington, D.C..
2012
- Maier Museum of Art, “The 101st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Bridges Not Walls,” Lynchburg, VA (catalog).
2011
- Light Work, “En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection,” (guest curator: Elizabeth Ferrer), Syracuse, NY; (Traveling: Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.; Ajira, Newark, NJ, etc.).
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families,” Washington, D.C..
- Lehigh University, Dubois Gallery, “Women Photographers: Selections from the LUAG Teaching Collection,” Lehigh, PA, 2011.
2010
- Michael Mazzeo Gallery, “RSVP: Arbor,” New York, NY.
- S. Embassy in San Salvador, Art in Embassies, El Salvador.
2009
- District of Columbia Arts Center, “Gift Exchange,” (guest curator: Laura Roulet), Washington, D.C..
2008
- American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, “Multiplicitocracy,” Washington, D.C. (brochure).
- Gallery 31 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, “FotoViajeros: International Experience / Transnational Identity,” Washington, D.C..
2007
- Society for Photographic Education (MidAtlantic/Northeast), “Homeland: Video Festival,” Woodstock, NY.
- Cultural Institute of Mexico, “Directions,” (guest curators: Irene Clouthier & Laura Roulet), Washington, D.C., (catalog).
- Museum of Photographic Arts, “Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now,” (guest curator: Merry Foresta), San Diego, CA.
2006
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Rompiendo Fronteras/Breaking Borders,” Washington, D.C..
- Zoellner Arts Center, “Latin American Photography 2: Selections from the LUAG Collection,” Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, (catalog).
2005
- Texas Women’s University, Joyce Elaine Grant Photography Exhibition, (guest curator: Alison Devine Nordström), Denton, TX.
2003
- International Center of Photography, Only Skin Deep National Survey, New York, NY.
- 50th Venice Biennale, “Dreams and Conflicts,” Latin American Pavilion-IILA, Santi Cosma e Damiano Convent, Venice, Italy, (catalogs).
- The Art Gallery, “Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing Borders,”Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, (brochure).
- The Lowe Art Museum, “Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art,” University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, (catalog).
2002
- Fries Museum, “Mundos Creados,” Noorderlicht Photofestival, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, (catalog).
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, “Dedicated to Art: 2002 Faculty Biennial Exhibition,” Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, D.C..
2001
- MALBA/Colección Constantini, “Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte iberoamericano fin de siglo,” (guest curator: Virginia Pérez Ratton), Buenos Aires, Argentina, December, & Centro de Convenciones de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, July; organized by Generalitat Valenciana (catalog).
- Lehigh University Art Galleries, “Latin American Artist-Photographers,” Bethlehem, PA, (catalog).
- The Art Gallery at University of Maryland, “Opened Book,” (guest curator: Kristen Hileman), College Park, MD.
2000
- El Museo del Barrio, “Latin American Artist-Photographers,” (guest curator: Ricardo Viera), New York, NY.
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, “Dedicated to Art: 2000 Faculty Exhibition,” CCAD, Washington, D.C..
1999
- Centro de la Imagen , Frontera: Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, (guest curator: José Antonio Navarrete, Mexico, DF, Mexico, (catalog; traveling).
- Centro Cultural Recoleta, “El ojo del milenio: Arte de las Américas,” Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Mastering the Millenium: Art of the Americas,” Washington, D.C., (catalog).
1998
- Musée de l’Histoire Vivante, “Archives des lointains: Mois Off de la Photo à Paris 98,” (guest curator: Christian Gattinoni), Paris-Montreuil, France, (catalog).
- Musée de l’Arles Antique, “Cultes intimes,” 29ème Rencontres internationales de la photographie, (guest curator: Christian Gattinoni), Arles, France, (catalog).
- Rosslyn Spectrum Gallery, “Say the Word- DeMoss, Hasbun, Revere,”Arlington, VA.
- District Fine Arts , “Within the Surroundings-de Borja, Hasbun, Kirtland,” (guest curator: Ken Ashton), Washington, D.C..
- Projectspace, “Visual Arts Fellowship Recipient Exhibition,” Washington, D.C..
1997
- The Washington Design Center, “Contemporary Photography of Iberoamerica,” Washington, D.C., (catalog).
- Arts Club of Washington, “Latino Festival,” (guest curator: Félix Angel), Washington, D.C..
- Arsenal de la Marina, “Muestra de Fotografía Latinoamericana,” San Juan, Puerto Rico, (catalog).
- The Dimock Gallery, “Faculty Show,” George Washington University, Washington, D.C.,.
1996
- Centro de la Imagen, “Muestra de Fotografía Latinoamericana,” V Coloquio de Fotografía Latinoamericana, México, DF, (catalog).
- The Chrysler Museum, “Light Images ‘96,” (guest curator: Alison D. Nordström), Norfolk, VA, (catalog).
1995
- Harn Museum of Art, “Images of Silence: Photography from Latin America & the Caribbean of the ‘80s,” Gainesville, FL.
- Ellipse Arts Center, “All Together Now: Artists at Work In the Community,” ‘Photos & Other Treasures,’ Arlington, VA, (catalog).
- Fine Arts Gallery at UMBC, “7 Views,” (guest curator: David Yager), Baltimore, MD, (catalog).
1994
- Galería el laberinto, “Foto: Hasbun, González Palma, Paredes,”San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, “La matière, l’ombre, la fiction,”Paris, France, (catalog).
- Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, “Israéliens-Palestiniens,”Pontault-Combault, France, September, (catalog); also at the Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris.
- The Chrysler Museum, “Light Images ‘94,” (guest curator: Adam Weinberg), Norfolk, VA, (catalog).
1993
- Ellipse Arts Center, “12th Washington, D.C. Area-wide Photo Show,” (guest curator: Merry Foresta), Arlington, VA.
- Galería Sol del Río, “Una visión de la fotografía latinoamericana,” Guatemala, Guatemala, (brochure).
- Spectrum Gallery, “New Impressions: Photography in the ‘90’s,”(guest curator: Will Stapp), Rochester, NY.
- Maison de l’Amérique Latine, “L’Amerique dans tous ses états,” Paris, France, (catalog).
- Museu de Arte Contemporaneo, “Salón latinoamericano del desnudo,” NaFOTO: International Month of Photography, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
1992
- Galerie L’imaginaire, “Salón latinoamericano del desnudo,” Alliançe Française, Lima, Perú.
- Silver Image Gallery, “The Nude: Classic Image,” Seattle, WA.
- Salon Ltd, “D.C. Commission on the Arts Grantees,”(guest curator: Sammy Hoi), Washington, D.C..
- The Dimock Gallery, “Faculty Show,” GWU, , Washington, D.C..
1991
- Galería el laberinto, “Vecinos,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Abington Art Center, “Photography ‘90,” (guest curator: Duane Michals), Jenkintown, PA.
- Galería Imaginaria, “El mito de la imagen,” Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala.
- Bronx Museum of the Arts, “Images of Silence: Photography from Latin America and the Caribbean in the ‘80’s,” Bronx, NY; also at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR; Galería de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1989
- Galería el laberinto, “Foto 150: Hasbun, González Palma, Hasbun,” San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Images of Silence: Photography from Latin America…,” (catalog).
- Arts Club of Washington, “Washington Invitational 1989: Six Photographers,” Washington, D.C..
- Galería el laberinto, “5 x 5 = 5,” San Salvador, El Salvador, (brochure).
collections (selected)
- Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., USA.
- Bert Hartkamp Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France.
- District of Columbia’s Art Bank, Washington, D.C., USA.
- Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL, USA.
- El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, USA.
- En Foco, Bronx, NY, USA
- Galería el laberinto, San Salvador, El Salvador.
- Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., USA.
- Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
- The Montgomery County Public Art Trust Collection, MD, U.S.A.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA.
- The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
- The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
- Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC, USA.
- Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY, USA.
awards & honors
- Filter Photo, Honorable Mention, Collaborating with the Archive, (Mary Statzer), Chicago, IL, 2021.
- Rutgers University, Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist, 2021.
- AHCMC, COVID-19 General Operating Support Emergency Award for Artists & Scholars, 2021.
- Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalist, 2020.
- FY21 Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County Artist Project Grant, Maryland, 2020.
- Trawick Prize Finalist,
- Chautauqua, University of Colorado, 2019 Archive Transformed: CU Boulder Artist/Scholar Collaborative Residency.
- National Portrait Gallery, Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2019, Smithsonian Institution.
- Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Media, 2019 and 2008.
- CENTER Review Santa Fe, Producer’s Choice, (Keith Jenkins), 2nd Place Award, 2018.
- CENTER, Review Santa Fe, Curator’s Choice, (Corey Keller), 2nd Place Award, 2017.
- Sondheim Prize, Semifinalist, 2017.
- Anonymous Was a Woman, Nominated, 2016.
- FY17 Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County Artist Project Grant, 2016.
- Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador Artist in Residence, 2016.
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Fellow, 2015-2016.
- Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Photography, 2015 & 2012.
- Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador Artist in Residence, 2015.
- Howard Chapnick Grant of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, 2014.
- Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 2014.
- S. Department of State and American Association of Museum’s “Museums Connect” grant, lead artist, curriculum advisor and curator for “Two Museums, Two Nations, One Identity,” AMA-Art Museum of the Americas and MARTE, Washington, D.C. and El Salvador, 2011-12.
- FotoWeek D.C. International Awards Competition, Honorable Mention: Portrait, Wash., D.C., 2011.
- Escuela de Bellas Artes Artist in Residence, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2010.
- Museo de Arte de El Salvador-MARTE, Artista del mes, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2009.
- S. Department of State J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board - Fulbright Scholar Award, 2006-08.
- Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Md. FY08 Creative Projects Grant, 2007.
- Corcoran College of Art + Design Outstanding Creative Research Faculty Award, 2007.
- The No Strings Foundation, Finalist, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.
- Corcoran College of Art + Design Faculty Development Grant, Washington, D.C., 2013, 2010, 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001 & 1998.
- 50th Venice Biennale, Represented El Salvador, 2003.
- The Janice Goldsten Community Artists Program Grant, The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, Rockville, Maryland, in collaboration with the D.C. Jewish Community Center, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001.
- C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1999, 1996, 1994 & 1991.
- The George Washington University 175th Anniversary Academic Program Grant, Related Destinies: The Children of Abraham throughout the World, 1996.
- Ellipse Arts Center, First Place Black & White, (Merry Foresta), 12th Wash. D.C. Photo Show, Arlington, VA, 1993.
- Honorable Mention: (W. Stapp), New Impressions, Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1993.
- C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities/NEA Technical Assistance Recipient, 1993.
- Cecille R. Hunt Prize, Washington, D.C., 1988.
- Patricia M. Toel Memorial Prize, Washington, D.C., 1988.
- David Lloyd Kreeger Award in Photography, Washington, D.C., 1985.
bibliographical references (selected)
- Anastario, Mike, Elena Salamanca, and Elizabeth Hawkins, Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa, The University of Arizona Press, 2024.
- Gallun, Lucy, Five Artist-Publishers Who Are Changing the Photobook Landscape, MOMA Magazine, March 27, 2024.
- Bate, David, Erina Duganne & Liz Wells, eds., photographies, “Pulsante deseo: Representing El Salvador Across Spatial and Temporal Boundaries,” Vol. 17, Issue 1-2, 2024.
- Muriel Hasbun, Pax Tecum Filomena: Una Canción para Ti, by Matarile Ediciones, 2023.
- Lenscratch, The 2023 Lenscratch Staff Favorite Things, December 30, 2023.
- Durón, Max, The Year in Latinx Art: Icons Receive Their Due as Mid-Career and Emerging Artists
Get Spotlights, ARTnews, December 29, 2023.
- Artishock Revista, ICP Presents First NYC Career Survey of Muriel Hasbun, 22.12.2023.
- Reinoza, Tatiana, Muriel Hasbun, Todos los santos (Volcán de Izalco, amén), Smarthistory,
November 30, 2023.
- Zhu, Kaleo, Review: ‘Muriel Hasbun: Tracing Terruño’ examines the fragility of memory and
identity amid displacement, NYU News, December 5, 2023.
- Selden, Richard, New York Bound? Seek Out These 6 Art Shows, The Georgetowner, Dec. 7, 2023.
- Packard, Cassie, The Case for the Place of Feeling in Photography, Art Review Magazine, 5 Oct.2023.
- Heinrich, Will, Fall Preview: Art Shows and Exhibitions to See This Fall, NYT, Sept. 4, 2023.
- Vartanian, Hrag, Hyperallergic Fall 2023 New York Art Guide, Hyperallergic, September 1, 2023.
- Garcia Cheran, Joanna, Late Summer is for NYC Art Lovers, LATINA, August 2023.
- ISLAA, Erina Duganne on Muriel Hasbun, 270 Film Series, 2023.
- Esposito, Veronica, ‘We’re craving intimacy’: how art can show the power and limitations of trust, The Guardian, August 21, 2023.
- Duganne, Erina, “Art for the Future: Curator Talk with Erina Duganne,” UNM Art Museum, 2022.
- Capps, Kriston, “The Stories Art Can Tell,” The Washington Post Magazine, June 19, 2022.
- Moalemi, Mahan, “Archived Opposition: ‘Art for the Future’ at Tufts University Art Galleries,” Art in America, April 25, 2022.
- Oslé, Emma, “Lost and Found: Unearthing the Echoes of Muriel Hasbun’s Seismic Traces,” Intervenxions, NYU Latinx Project, NY, NY, April 5, 2022.
- Erina Duganne and Abigail Satinsky, eds., Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, Inventory Press and Tufts University Art Galleries, 2022.
- Villasmil, Alejandra, Artists Call. Redes de solidaridad entre artistas y activistas de EEUU y Centroamérica, Artishock Revista, 27 Feb 2022.
- Duganne, Erina, “Registers for the Future: Muriel Hasbun’s Pulse,” Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, (online catalog essay for “Muriel Hasbun: Seismic Traces”), 2021.
- Balestrino, Alice, ed., Past (Im)Perfect Continuous: Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII, Sapienza Università Editrice, Rome, Italy, 2021.
- Pretelin, Claudia and Muriel Hasbun, “Between Memories: An Interview with Muriel Hasbun,” Instruments of Memory, October 2021.
- Pardo, Cristina, “Entre Auvergne e Izalco. Terruño y lugar diaspórico en el trabajo fotográfico de Muriel Hasbun,” VIII Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales, Guatemala, Oct. 15, 2021.
- Duganne, Erina, “Registers for the Future: Muriel Hasbun’s “Pulse/Pulso,” Lund University, Hasselblad Foundation and Landskrona Foto, Sweden, September 30, 2021.
- Jenkins, Mark, “In the galleries: Exploring the many perspectives of terricide,” Washington Post, August 13, 2021 and ““Latino artists remind us art should raise consciousness,” August 15, 2021.
- Duganne, Erina, “There was no record of her smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto,” in Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, Justin Carlisle, Sigrid Lien (eds.), Leuven University Press, 2021.
- Lara Martínez, Rafael, “Muriel Hasbun: Arte, Laberinto Migratorio,” El Escarabajo, abril 27, 2021.
- Duganne, Erina, “There was no record of her smile: Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto,” in Photography Between Evidence and Disclosure, Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis, April 9, 2021.
- Benítez, Raúl, “Fotografío para cuestionar: Muriel Hasbun,” Disruptiva, febrero 15, 2021.
- Pineda, Grego, “El mundo fotográfico de Muriel Hasbun: contra el silencio y el olvido,” 9 feb 2021.
- Rosso, Gabriela, “Muriel Hasbun. RECORD: Cultural Pulses,” Artishock, 19.02.2021.
- Rousseau, Claudia, “RECORD: Cultural Pulses/Muriel Hasbun,” East City Art, Feb. 19, 2021.
- “Photography is Dead…Long live Photography!,” Candela Books + Gallery, exhibition catalog, 2021.
- Ferrer, Elizabeth, Latinx Photography in the United States: A Visual History, University of Washington Press, 2021.
- Espinoza, Claudia, “Museo Whitney adquiere foto de Muriel Hasbun,” La Prensa Gráfica, 11 de enero, 2021.
- Espinoza, Claudia, “El prestigioso museo Whitney de Estados Unidos adquiere imagen de fotógrafa salvadoreña,” La Prensa Gráfica, 10 de enero 2021.
- Jenkins, Mark, “In the galleries: Perspectives on blending culture and identity,” The Washington Post, December 11, 2020.
- Rousseau, Claudia, “Aceptar: Una Exposición Colectiva at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery,” East City Art, October 19, 2020.
- Rousseau, Claudia, “Aceptar: Group Exhibition at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery,” Arte al Día, 2020.
- Ober, Cara, “The 2020 Sondheim Prize Finalists,” BmoreArt, July 24, 2020.
- “Fotógrafa salvadoreña es finalista en prestigiosa premiación en E.E.U.U,” El Mundo, viernes, 24 julio, 2020.
- Jacobson, Louis, “City Lights: Attend a Virtual Puppet Show or Peruse Pulse and Memory/Pulso y Memoria,” The Washington City Paper, July 23, 2020.
- Rousseau, Claudia, “The Trawick Contemporary Art Awards 2019,” East City Art, Sept. 18, 2019.
- Wexler, Ellyn, “Gallery B Exhibits Visual Arts by Trawick Prize Finalists: Muriel Hasbun’s Photography, Video and Interactive Installations Explore Identity, Migration, Memory,” Culture Spotlight MC, Sept. 2019.
- Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Migratory Aesthetics,” The Washington Post, September 11, 2019.
- Jiménez, Ramón A., MetroLatinoUSA, “Artistas hispanos que destacan en Washington,” 14 de septiembre 2019.
- Paz, Mario Enrique and Melissa Pacheco, “La docencia estadounidense se acerca a la realidad del país,” La Prensa Gráfica, El Salvador, 21 julio del 2019.
- Cornejo, Kency, S. Central Americans in Art and Visual Culture, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Online Publication, Feb. 2019.
- Marchio, Julie, “(Pos)Memoria(s) de la diaspora judia en Centroamerica: ¿De un trauma a otro?,” Revista de Historia, IHNCA (UCA), Nicaragua, No. 36, 2019.
- La Horchata Zine Arts Magazine, “Muriel Hasbun: si je meurs/if I die,” Wash. D.C., Invierno 2019.
- Roth, Paul, “Muriel Hasbun: Saints and Shadows, A Journey of a Complex Heritage,”in TRIBE: Photography and Media from the Arab World, Dubai, Issue 7, 2018.
- Smithson, Aline, “Center’s Producer’s Choice 2nd Place Award: Muriel Hasbun,” Lenscratch, May 27, 2018.
- Brook Andrew & Jessica Neath (2018), “Encounters with Legacy Images: Decolonising and Re-imagining Photographic Evidence from the Colonial Archive,” History of Photography, 42:3, 217-238.
- Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: More than just selfies, more than just photos,” The Washington Post, April 20, 2018.
- Smithson, Aline, “Center’s Curator’s Choice 2nd Place Award: Muriel Hasbun,” Lenscratch, June 27, 2017.
- Herrera, Adriana, “Artist Immigrants of Washington: The Looking Glass,” Arte al Día, 2017.
- Landau, Lauren, “At GALA Theatre, Flamenco Rises From the Ashes of the Mt. Pleasant Riots,”C.ist, Nov. 4, 2016.
- Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Conversations between mother and daughter, teacher and student,” The Washington Post, October 8, 2016.
- Galindo, Evelyn, “Arte y memoria colectiva en la posguerra: rupturas, interrupciones y discontinuidandes,” Revista Cultura 118, 2016.
- Jacobson, Louis, “Critics’ Picks: Calling to You,” Washington City Paper, September 2016.
- The Kojo Nnamdi Show, “Through “The Looking Glass”: Latin American Immigrant Artists in D.C.” WAMU 88.5, Tuesday, August 9, 2016.
- Anderson, John, “The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington” at the Katzen Arts Center, Reviewed,”Washington City Paper, July 13, 2016.
- Galindo-Doucette, Evelyn, “Una crítica del arte y la cultura oficiales en El Salvador,” Séptimo Sentido, La Prensa Gráfica, 17 de julio, 2016.
- Salamanca, Elena, “Preguntas para el arte de posguerra en El Salvador,” ConteXtos, X Bienal Centroamericana, 14 de julio 2016.
- Castro, Sara, “Diálogo artístico: Entre recuerdos y desafíos,” El Diario de Hoy, 7 de julio de 2016.
- Rassmussen, Jack, The Looking Glass: Artist Immigrants of Washington, exhibition catalog, Alper Initiative for Washington Art, American University Museum, 2016.
- Erlich, June, ed. “El Salvador. Santos y sombras/Saints and Shadows by Muriel Hasbun,” ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America, Spring 2016, Volume XV, Number 3.
- Pleitez Vela, Tania Pleitez, “Pulsantes Mundos,” in "A cielo abierto: Construcciones espacio-temporales de género,“ exhibition catalog, Sala Nacional de Exposiciones, San Salvador, 2016.
- Park, Regina, “Students Mix Media in Corcoran Thesis Exhibit,” The GW Hatchet, April 18, 2016.
- Mejía, Diandra, “Arte Voz El Salvador, memoria e identidad,” El Diario de Hoy, 27.mar.2016.
- Aragón, Francisco, “Pintura: Palabra,” Poetry, March 2016.
- Trull, Armando, “El Salvador y la memoria a través del arte,” The Washington Post/El Tiempo Latino, Washington, D.C., October 30, 2015.
- Trull, Armando, “Art From El Salvador’s Civil War Sparks Painful Memories,” WAMU 88.5, Washington, D.C., October 9, 2015.
- Fuentes Guaza, Luisa, “San Salvador: primavera silenciosa/ San Salvador: Silent Spring,” Colección Sandra Phelps de Cisneros, August 31, 2015.
- Cornejo, Kency, “Does That Come with a Hyphen? A Space?: The Question of Central American-Americans in Latino Art and Pedagogy,” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 40:1, University of California Regents, Spring 2015.
- Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío, “Art Adventures with El Museo del Barrio: El Salvador,”Artsy, May 2015.
- Andreu, Tomás y Fred Ramos, “La galería El Laberinto creció y floreció durante la guerra, que es la paradoja más grande que existe,” El Faro, April 26, 2015.
- GenteVé Noticias, “Legado y memoria,” Canal GenteVé, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2015.
- Hasbun, Muriel, Smithsonian Magazine Instagram, March 16-20, 2015.
- IndexFoto, Una foto, una historia,” November 3, 2014.
- Hubbard, Kitty, Report: Society for Photographic Education 51st National Conference, Afterimage, June 2014.
- Jacobson, Louis, “The Eerie, Mesmerizing Photographs of ’72 Grams per Pixel’ at Gallery B,” Washington City Paper, May 12, 2014.
- Coppola, John, “What is American about Latino Art?,” The Miami Herald, March 2, 2014.
- Platt, Susan Noyes, “Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art: A Radical Proposal,” Art and Politics Now, February 14, 2014.
- Ramos, Carmen E., Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014.
- Gross, Rebecca, “Getting to Know Oneself,” NEA ARTS Magazine, No. 4, 2013.
- Harlan, Becky and Muriel Hasbun, “Five Questions with Photographer Muriel Hasbun,” EyeLevel, December 12, 2013.
- O’Sullivan, Michael, “A Democracy of Images Art Review,” The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2013.
- Ashfar, Sareh and Muriel Hasbun, “Reflexiones sobre la serie de fotografías X post facto de Muriel Hasbún,” El Faro Académico, El Salvador, Oct. 2013.
- Hume, Sophia, “EyeLevel: A Look at Professor Muriel Hasbun’s Photography,” UnVeiled, September 2013.
- Ramos, Carmen and Florencia Bazzano-Nelson, “Preparing for Our America: Close to Home: Muriel Hasbun and Washington D.C.’s Salvadoran Community,” EyeLevel, Sept. 14, 2013.
- Foresta, Merry, Curator Talk for A Democracy of Images, video, SAAM, June 28, 2013; also linked at: A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- Hirsch, Marianne, The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust, NY: Columbia University Press, 2012.
- Hirsch, Marianne & Diana Taylor, eds., e-misférica, “On the Subject of Archives,” Vol. 9, 2012.
- Afshar, Sareh, “Tracing the Image, Imagining the Trace: Seeing Through, Looking Between, Feeling Muriel Hasbun’s X post facto,” e-misférica multimedios, Vol. 9, Issues 1&2, Summer 2012.
- O’Sullivan, Michael, “Conversación: Pictures from a conversation,” The Washington Post, 30 December 2011.
- O’Sullivan, Michael, “Art in Focus: Conversación,” The Washington Post GOG Blog, 29 Dec. 2011.
- Campello, Lennox, 100 Artists of Washington D.C., Schiffer Publishing, 2011.
- Guevara, Tomás, “Muriel Hasbun en el Museo de Arte del Smithsonian,” El Diario de Hoy, 3 June 2011.
- Vargas, Carlos, “Muriel Hasbun: Mis raíces salvadoreñas a través de la fotografía,” Metro Latino USA News, 28 May 2011.
- Jenkins, Mark, “Family Life, captured in snapshots,” The Washington Post Weekend, 4 Feb. 2011.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Meet Muriel Hasbun, videocast, 2010.
- Merry, Stephanie, “Art: Postmemory as Muse,” The Washington Post, 6 October 2010.
- The Fulbright Experience, video, US Dept. of State Fulbright Scholar Program, 2010.
- Elman, Julie, “Found in Translation: Corcoran class open students’ eyes to El Salvador people’s cultural identity and sense of home,”PDNedu, Spring 2010.
- Huezo Mixco, Miguel, Un pie aquí y otro allá: Los migrantes y la crisis de la identidad salvadoreña, Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador, 2009.
- Romero, Pedro G. y Walo Araújo, De Rasgos Árabes, brochure for symposium, 22-26 July, 2009, Centro Cultural de España de El Salvador, 2009.
- Marcelo Brodsky and Julio Pantoja, eds., Body Politics: Políticas del cuerpo en la fotografía latinoamericana, Buenos Aires: la marca editora, 2009.
- David Lazar, ed. Truth in Nonfiction: Essays, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008, pp. 163-190.
- Ramanathan, Lavanya, “From Here to El Salvador,”The Washington Post, 24 January 2008.
- O’Sullivan, Michael, “Latino Artists in the Right ‘Directions’,” The Washington Post, 8 June 2007.
- Pincus, Robert L., “Narrative is Making a Comeback,” San Diego Union-Tribute, 11 Feb 2007.
- Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer, “What’s Wrong with this Picture? Archival Photographs in Contemporary Narratives,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2006, pp.229-252.
- Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer, “Erinnerungspunkte: Schoahfotografien in zeitgenössischen Erzaählungen,” Fotogeschichte, 2005, p. 29-44.
- Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer, “Tainted Sites: Photography, Identity, Transmission,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, April 2005.
- Atwood, Roger, ARTnews, February 2005.
- Cosmos, Carolyn, “Angels and Phantoms,” The Washington Diplomat, May 2004, p. B-6.
- Jenkins, Mark, “Multiple Exposures,” The Washington Post Weekend, April 9, 2004, p. 39.
- Van Riper, Frank, “Muriel Hasbun and the Layering of Memories,” Camera Works, March 2004.
- Roth, Paul, “Memento: Muriel Hasbun Photographs,” exhib. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2004.
- Jacobson, Louis, “Watched Over,” Washington City Paper, September 19, 2003, p. 84.
- Dawson, Jessica, “Memory over Memory,” The Washington Post, September 18, 2003, p. C5.
- Rousseau, Claudia, “Exhibits feature Hispanic and Korean American Artists,” The Gazette, September 10, 2003, p. A-34.
- Grundberg, Andy, “Protegida (Watched Over): Muriel Hasbun’s Postmemory Project,” Arcipelago di Immagini: 50esima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – Biennale di Venezia, Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano, 2003 (exhibition catalog).
- Viera, Ricardo, guest editor, “Muriel Hasbun,” Nueva Luz, Volume 8:3 (Bronx, NY), 2003.
- Castro R., Fernando, guest curator, “Escaping the Land: the Photographic Landscape in Latin America,” in Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latin American Art, The Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, 2003 (exhibition catalog).
- Levitt, Laura, ed., “Changing Focus: Family Photography & American Jewish Identity,”The Scholar & Feminist/Online, http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/cf The Barnard Center for Research on Women, 2003.
- Hirsch, Marianne & Smith, Valerie, ed., “Gender & Cultural Memory,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 28, Number 1, University of Chicago Press, Autumn 2002.
- Mundos Creados—Latin American Photography, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2002, The Netherlands, 2002 (exhibition catalog).
- Políticas de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano fin de siglo, Generalitat Valenciana, Spain, 2001 (exhibition catalog).
- Viera, Ricardo, Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection, Lehigh University Art Galleries, 2001, (exhibition catalog).
- Sozanski, Edward J., “Redefining families in photos, portraits,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 14, 2000, p. W32.
- Bahamond, Astrid & Janowski, Janine, Mitos Cruzados: La Huella de Europa, El Salvador 2000, Concultura & the European Union, San Salvador, May 2000.
- Snow, K. Mitchell, “Landscapes of Light,” History of Photography, Vol. 23 No. 4, Winter London, (1999), pp. 364-369.
- Frontera: Bienal Internacional de Fotografía 1999, Conaculta, México, DF, 1999 (exhibition catalog).
- Roshni Rustomji-Kerns, ed., Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, Rowman & Littlefield, New York, 1999.
- “De Santos y sombras. El diario de Muriel Hasbun.” Extra-Cámara, Conac (Caracas), Edición 15-1-1999, pp. 50-55.
- Bennekom, Josephine van, “Portfolio: Muriel H. Hasbun,” Foto (Amsterdam) September 1999, pp. 48-50.
- Jacobson, Louis, “Her Past in Hiding,” Washington City Paper (Wash., D.C.), July 16, 1999, p.
- Weiss, Gail, Body Images, Routledge, New York & London, 1999.
- Perloff, Stephen, “Les Rencontres d’Arles,” The Photo Review (Philadelphia), Vol. 21, #4, Fall 1998, pp. 17-20.
- “Portafolio Latinoamerica,” Estilo (Caracas) Año 9, No. 34, December 1998, p. 79.
- Portefolio de cartes postales, Editions Musée de l’Histoire vivante, Paris, November 1998.
- Mois Off de la Photo à Paris 98, (exhibition catalog) Editions Le temps des cerises, Paris, November 1998.
- Un nouveau paysage humain, 29ème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, (exhib. cat.) Editions Actes Sud, Arles, France, July 1998.
- Miller, Lenore, “Within the Surroundings...” KOAN (Washington, D.C.) Volume VI, No. 6, March 1998, p. 18.
- “Santos y sombras,” América Ventana (Antwerp & Utrecht), nr. 251, February 1998, pp. 28-31.
- Snow, K. Mitchell, “Through the Volcano’s Eye,” Américas (Washington, D.C.), Vol. 49, Number 5, October 1997, pp. 28-35.
- Meyer, Pedro, “Editorial 7,” ZoneZero, June 1997.
- Garrigues, Emmanuel, ed., L’Ethnographie, Societé Française d’Ethnographie/Université Paris 7 (Paris), Tome XCII, 2, Numéro 120, Automne 1996, pp. 149-157.
- Bernard, Sophie, “L’Eté Photographique de Lectoure,” Photographies Magazine (Paris), July-Aug. 1996, pp. 46-
- McWilliams, Martha, “Odi Vulgus,” Washington City Paper (Wash, D.C.,), May 12, 1995, pp. 40-41.
- “¿Sólo una sombra?” Washington Review (Wash., D.C.), Vol. XX, Nr. 6, April-May 1995, pp. 13-16.
- Lemagny, Jean-Claude, Photographie Contemporaine: La matière, l’ombre, la fiction, Nathan/Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, 1994.
- Rodríguez, Bélgica, Una aproximación al arte de Centroamérica, Ed. Ex-Libris, Caracas, Venezuela, 1994.
- Weinberg, Adam, Light Images ‘94, (exh. cat.), The Chrysler Museum (Norfolk), August 1994.
- “Muriel Hasbun,” Fotopratica (Milan, Italy), September 1992, pp. 36-41.
- “Muriel H. Hasbun,” Photo Metro (San Francisco), Volume 11, Issue 100, June-July 1992, p. 7.
- Thern-Smith, Linda, “Faculty Exhibition,” New Art Examiner (Chicago), Vol. 19, Number 9, May 1992, p.42.
- “Muriel H. Hasbun,” Photographos (Athens), March-April 1992, pp. 70-73.
- Breiter, Joseph, “Moments of Reverie,” Nuestro (Washington, D.C.) April 1988, p. 21.
- “Las fotos de Muriel Hasbun,” Crónica (Guatemala), Año 1, #12, (11 February 1988), p. 46.
art + education + community engagement
- Laberinto Projects, Founder and Director, 2016 to present.
college teaching + administration
- University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, NOMAD MFA, Visiting Artist and Distinguished Practitioner, 2020, 2017.
- Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George Washington University, Professor Emerita.
- The Lesley University College of Art and Design, MFA Visual Arts Program, Mentor, 2016.
- Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George Washington University, Professor and Program Head of Photography, 2014-2016.
- Corcoran College of Art + Design,
- Chair of Photography 2011-2014.
- Professor of Photography, 2013-2014.
- Associate Professor of Photography 2006-2013.
- Associate Chair of Photography 2009-2011.
- Program Coordinator of Fine Art Photography 2002-2009.
- Interim Chair of Photography 2007-2008.
- Assistant Professor & Interim Chair of Photography 2001-2002.
- Adjunct faculty 1995-2001/2002-2006.
- The George Washington University, Assistant Professorial Lecturer, 1989-1998.
- American University, Instructor, 1995-1996.
- Northern Virginia Community College, Instructor, Alexandria campus, 1993.
visiting artist + lectures + workshop presentations
- ICP-International Center of Photography, Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Lecture Series, “Muriel
Hasbun and Susan Meiselas,” NY, NY, 2023.
- Houston Center for Photography, “Beyond the Record,” Artist Talk, Houston, TX.
- photographies conference, “Borders and Boundaries,” Artist Talk, San Antonio, TX.
- Rutgers University, Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist Lecture, April 5, 2022.
- Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, “With Pulsing Desire: Memory, Representation and Inclusion through Art,” March 31, 2022.
- University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies, “Documented: The Community Blackboard Interactive Art Workshop and Installation,” April 1, 2022.
- Tufts University Art Galleries, ARTE VOZ Workshop: Muriel Hasbun, March 2022.
- Rutgers University, Mason Gross Lecture Series, November 2021.
- Rutgers University, Estelle Lebowitz Endowed Visiting Artist, 2021-2022.
- Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, “Telling Our Stories: Latinx Youth,” Arts Club workshops in collaboration with Key Bilingual School, September 2021-present (+ online exhibition forthcoming).
- Norton Museum of Art, Virtual conversation with Tim B. Wride, March 17, 2021.
- PPAC-Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, “Tracing Memory and Legacy,” March 20, 2021.
- RoFa Projects + Casa de la Cultura El Salvador, “Arte y migración,” Feb. 21, 2021.
- Walters Art Museum, LIVE Artist Talk: Muriel Hasbun, with Dr. Ellen Hoobler, Feb. 4, 2021.
- Smith Center for Healing and Arts, barquitos de papel workshop, October 22, 2020.
- Radford University, Visiting Artist Talk, (Zoom), October 5, 2020.
- University of Maryland, “Connected Diaspora,” Artist Panel, (Zoom), Oct. 8, 2020.
- Centro Cultural de España, “Un acercamiento a la fotografía documental y artística en El Salvador,” (September 29, 2020).
- Smith Center for Healing and Arts, @hisaokaarts, Instagram Live TV, June 5, 2020.
- Key Elementary Bilingual School, Visiting Artist, Arlington, VA.
- Olney Theatre, barquitos de papel workshop and panel discussion, Miss You Like Hell, Olney, MD.
- James K. Polk Elementary, “Teaching about Central America,” Teaching for Change, 2019.
- Laberinto Institute, EDUCA, “Visual Literacy as a Tool for Cultural Proficiency in the Classroom: El Salvador as a Case Study,” August 2018 and June-August 2019.
- Boulder Public Library, “Art for the Future,” The Archive Transformed, Boulder, CO, 2019.
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art, “When the Irreconcilable Finds a Way,” 2019.
- Brentwood Arts Exchange, “Documented: The Community Blackboard,” Brentwood, MD, 2019.
- College Art Association, in Letters to Lucy, “Yours in Struggle: Searching for El Salvador in Lucy Lippard’s Archive,” NYC, 2019.
- Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Full Circle: ARTtalk panel, Appalachian State University, 2019.
- Creative Time Summit, Pérez Art Museum Miami, “Violence, Migration, Cultural Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Cultural Production of Central American Diaspora Artists,”
- CENTER, Review Santa Fe, “Stories of Migration,” artist talk, Santa Fe, NM, 2018.
- University of New Mexico, Latin American and Iberian Institute, “Visual and Cultural Literacy About Central America,”
- Focus on the Story International Photo Festival, “Build the Wall or Tear it Down: How Visual Storytelling Shapes American Identity,” John Hopkins University/SAIS, Washington, D.C., 2018.
- Teaching for Change, workshop for teachers, Washington, D.C., 2018.
- IA&A at Hillyer, “Revealed,” gallery talk, Washington, D.C., 2018.
- The Athenaeum, “Parallel Lives,” gallery talk, Alexandria, VA, 2018.
- Vis Arts, “The Intolerable Image,” Rockville, MD, 2018.
- Gala Hispanic Theater, artist talk and panel discussion, Washington, D.C., 2018.
- University of New Mexico Art Museum, “Scheherazade in the Land of Izalco,” Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Decolonizing Methodologies in Art, Albuquerque, NM, 2017.
- CENTER, artist talk, Review Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2017.
- Laberinto Institute, “The Artist and the Archive,” workshop, Lake Coatepeque, El Salvador, 2017.
- VI Congreso Centroamericano de Estudios Culturales, “Memoria Nómada: Sobre viajes, desplazamientos y migraciones,”UCA- Universidad Centroamericana, Managua, Nicaragua, 2017.
- Transformer Gallery, “Luminiferous Aether,” moderator, Washington, D.C., 2017.
- International Center of Photography, “Women Picturing Revolution,” panel discussion, New York, NY, 2016.
- PhotoWorks at Glen Echo Park, with Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery photography assistant curator Leslie Ureña, Glen Echo, Md, 2016.
- Civilian Art Projects, Artist talk, “Calling to You” with Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery associate curator Taína Caragol, Washington, D.C., 2016.
- Centro Cultural de España, “Vivencias: Legado” and “ARTE VOZ,” workshop and panel discussion, San Salvador, El Salvador, March-July 2016.
- National Gallery of Art, “Artist + Artist: Muriel Hasbun,” Washington, D.C., 2016.
- Latino Art Now 5th Biennial Conference: Re-imagining Global Intersections, “Laberinto Projects: Mediating an Archive of Central American Art” in “Living Archives: Recovering the Sources for Latino and Latin American Art” panel, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 2016.
- School of Visual Arts, Master’s in Digital Photography, i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration Lecture Series: Muriel Hasbun, New York, NY, 2016.
- College Art Association 104th Annual Conference, “Laberinto Projects: An Archive of Central American Art and Socially Engaged Art Practices,” in “Living Archives: Latin American and Latino Art Materials in U.S. Institutions” panel, Washington, D.C., 2016.
- FotoWeek D.C., Logan FotoTalks, Muriel Hasbun, Washington, D.C., 2015.
- Casa de la Cultura, ARTE VOZ, Embassy of El Salvador, Washington, D.C., 2015.
- Fiesta D.C., ARTE VOZ, Washington, D.C., 2015.
- CASA de Maryland, ARTE VOZ workshop, Langley Park, MD, 2015.
- La Radio Tomada, Centro Cultural de España, “[Galería el laberinto] Un oásis de expresión artística en medio de la guerra en El Salvador,” San Salvador, El Salvador, March 12, 2015.
- Centro Cultural de España, laberinto projects workshop, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2015.
- Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo, Jornadas 10, keynote speaker, “Incorporando a los de allá: La educación y prácticas fotográficas desde una mirada transnacional y plural,” Uruguay, 2014.
- Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo, workshop, “Trazando una cartografía del ser,” 2014.
- Centro Cultural Salvadoreño-americano, Artist Talk, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2014.
- Society for Photographic Education National Conference, “Conversación: Dialogue at a Distance,” with Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and Andy Grundberg, Baltimore, MD, 2014.
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, “InterVivos,” artists’panel with curator Michael Mazzeo, Wash., D.C., 2013.
- XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, “The Art of the Central American Diasporas: A Roundtable Discussion,” panelist, Washington, D.C., 2013.
- Hirshhorn Museum, “ReThink Engagement: Workshop for Educators,” ArtWorks, Wash., D.C., 2013.
- The Phillips Collection, “Photography: Defining the Global Contemporary,” Creative Voices D.C., panelist, Washington, D.C., 2013.
- Society for Photographic Education National Conference, “Conferring Significance Across Borders: Photographic Education in a Transnational Context,” Chicago, IL, 2013.
- Maier Museum of Art, The 21st Helen Clark Berlind Symposium, Lynchburg, VA, 2012.
- University of Texas-Austin, Lozano Long Conference, Latin American Studies Institute, 2012.
- Rutgers Center for Migration and the Global City, Artist Talk & Workshop, Newark, NJ, 2011.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gallery Talk with curator Frank Goodyear, 2011.
- Foreign Service Institute at the Smithsonian, Artist Talk, Public Diplomacy Training, 2011.
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, FotoWeek D.C. Noon Lecture: “Conversación: Muriel Hasbun and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Washington, D.C., 2011.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Intersecciones/Intersections,” moderator, 2010.
- C. Jewish Community Center, “Examining Postmemory and Transforming into Art,” panel discussion, Washington, D.C., 2010.
- El Nigromante --Bellas Artes, Artist Talk andWorkshop, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2010.
- McKinney Avenue Contemporary, “barquitos de papel and other stories,” Dallas, TX, 2010.
- Warner Gallery, “Vessels & Vestiges,” Middletown, DE, 2009.
- Maryland Institute College of Art, Artist talk, Baltimore, MD, 2009.
- American University Museum, Gallery talk with Director Jack Rassmussen, Wash., D.C. 2008.
- NAFSA 60th Annual Conference: “The Fulbright Program: Helping Colleges and Universities Internationalize their Campuses,” panelist, Washington, D.C., 2008.
- Duke University, “Quae Vide-See These Things: The Photography of Muriel Hasbun,” Durham, NC, 2007.
- Second Street Gallery, “Intimate Strangers: How Photo Narratives Tell New Stories, Charlottesville, VA, 2007.
- Museum of Photographic Arts, Artists with Curator Merry Foresta/Gallery talk, San Diego, CA, 2007.
- Art Museum of the Americas, Documented: The Community Blackboard, Washington, D.C., 2006.
- Centro Cultural de España & Museo Nacional de Antropología David J. Guzmán, “barquitos de papel” workshops, San Salvador, 2006.
- Museo Nacional de Antropología David J. Guzmán, “Migraciones y archivos,” 2006.
- Museo Nacional de Antropología David J. Guzmán, “Imagen e identidad,” 2006.
- College Art Association 94th Annual Conference, “Photography and the Historical Moment,” panel chaired by Andy Grundberg, Boston, MA, 2006.
- Museo Nacional de Antropología David J. Guzmán, “Huella,” San Salvador, 2005.
- National Graduate Seminar, “Muriel Hasbun: Acts of Memory,” The Photography Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2004.
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Open Studio for High School Students, Washington, D.C., 2004.
- Society for Photographic Education 41st National Conference, “Place Located Within Self and Culture,” panel moderated by Andy Grundberg, Newport, RI, 2004.
- JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention, “Social Commentary Through the Arts: Exploring Identity, Washington, D.C., 2003.
- The Cosmos Club, “Muriel Hasbun and The Expressive Image,” Washington, D.C., 2002.
- C. Jewish Community Center, workshops & panel discussion: “Face to Face: Albums, Mirrors and Suitcases,” funded by the Janice Goldsten Community Artists Program of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, 2001.
- Stanford University, “History, Identity & Photography,” Center for Latin American Studies, 2000.
- C. Jewish Community Center, “Beyond Borders”: children’s photography project, Center for Collaborative Art and Visual Education and New Community, 1998.
- Smithsonian Institution, “A Wider Lens”: teachers’ workshop, American Voices, International Gallery, 1997.
- Latin American Youth Center, workshop funded by The Andrea Frank Foundation, Wash., D.C., 1997.
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, “In Focus”: education program, Gordon Parks’ Half Past Autumn, 1997.
- Smithsonian Institution, “Points of Entry: Making Photocollages & Theme Albums,” 1996.
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Santos y sombras,” Gallery talk, Washington, D.C., 1996.
- Ross Elementary School, “Lens Friends” Bilingual Photography Project, Washington, D.C., 1996.
- Gunston Community Center, “Photos & Other Treasures,” workshops, Arlington, VA, 1995.
- National Portrait Gallery, workshop, Camera Portraits/Annie Liebovitz, Washington, D.C., 1991.
- Art Museum of the Americas, “Photography in Latin America,” Images of Silence, 1989.
essays (selected)
- “Galería el laberinto: Art in a Time of War,” Diálogo: DePaul University’s Center for Latino Research, Vol. 20, Number 1, Spring 2017, pp. 165-172.
- “Here and There: Forging Relationships Across Borders, Cultures and Generations,” U.S. Department of State & Fulbright website, 2008.
- “FotoViajeros: International Experience / Transnational Identity,” Corcoran Gallery of Art website, 2008.
- “Catherine Day’s Elegies,” exhibition brochure, Loyola College, MD 2007.
- “Anri Sala: In Translation,” in Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection, Contemporary Arts Foundation, 2006.
related professional activities/service
- Casa de la Cultura de El Salvador, Board of Trustees: Vice President, Wash., D.C., 2015-present.
- Fulbright U.S. Student Program National Screening Committee, Institute of International Education, New York, NY, 2019, 2018, 2016.
- S./Japan Creative Artists Program, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2017.
- FotoWeek D.C. Curatorial Committee, Washington, D.C., 2015-2016.
- The Aftermath Project, Grants Jury, 2013.
- Fulbright Scholar Peer Review Committee, Art-Photography, CIES/US Dept. of State, 2011-2013.
- FotoWeek D.C. Advisory Board, Washington, D.C., 2009-2012.
- FotoWeek D.C. Portfolio Reviews and Noon Lecture Series Organizer/Curator, Corcoran College of Art + Design, 2008-2014.
- Fulbright Scholarships for Graduate Study in the U.S Selection Committee, U.S. Embassy El Salvador, 2006.
- Maryland State Arts Council Photography Fellowships Panelist, Baltimore, MD, 1995.
- DCCAH Arts-in-Education Grants Panelist, Washington, D.C., 1994.
- Photographer: (selected clients): Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Moving Forward Dance Company, Kimberly Gallery, Mexican-Cultural Institute, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1989-present.
- Academic Conferences: College Art Association 2019, 2016, 2006; Latino Art Now 2016, 2013; Society for Photographic Education 2014, 2013, 2011, 2004, 1998; FotoFest 2006 & 1992; Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles: 1998, 1995, & 1990; Women & the Art of Multimedia 1997; V Latin American Colloquium 1996; AIPAD & SPE Mid-Atlantic.
curated exhibitions (selected)
2022
- Centro Cultural de España, “Artists Call NOW,” with Erina Duganne, San Salvador, El Salvador.
2017
2016
2012
- Art Museum of the Americas and MARTE, “Two Museums, Two Nations, One Identity,” Washington, D.C. and San Salvador.
2011
- Latin American Youth Center, “PhotoTodos: Collaborative Work with Corcoran students and LAYC youth,” Washington, D.C.
- Gallery 31, Corcoran College of Art + Design,” PhotoTodos: Collaborative Work with Corcoran students and Latin American Youth Center youth,” Washington, D.C.
- Gallery 31, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Indie Photo Library (guest curator), Washington, D.C.
2010
- Gallery 31, Corcoran College of Art + Design, “Currency/Exchange: Corcoran Students’ Work from El Salvador Seminar & Study Away” Washington, D.C.
2008
- Gallery 31, Corcoran College of Art + Design, “FotoViajeros,” Washington, D.C.
education
- F.A. Photography, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1989: University Fellow (1985-88); Graduate Teaching Assistant (1987); Studied with Ray K. Metzker (1987-88); Thesis: “A Hint Half Guessed: A Portfolio of Photographs”.
- B. French Literature, cum laude, Pi Delta Phi (French Honor Society), Georgetown University, 1983.
- Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., Summer 1982.
- American University in Paris, Paris, France, 1979-1980.
gallery representation