Gil Mualem-Doron

I am a socially engaged artist, photographer, activist, and researcher whose work explores migration, identity, borders, belonging, memory, and social justice. My practice is deeply shaped by lived experience and long-term engagement with diverse communities across the world. Working across photography, large-scale installations, performance, archives, and participatory projects, I use art as a tool for dialogue, resistance, and collective imagination.

My projects are often developed through collaboration with refugees, LGBTQ+ communities, migrants, activists, and people affected by conflict, displacement, racism, and climate injustice. I am interested in how personal stories intersect with political realities and how art can create spaces for visibility, solidarity, healing, and social change. With previous journalistic work on environmental themes, my work in the past few years has centred on the effects of global warming on coastal communities and climate justice. 

My lived experience of intersectionality as queer, person of colour and migrant continues to shape my understanding of power, nationalism, colonialism, and community resilience. My large-scale installations and public interventions transform galleries and urban spaces into places of encounter, participation, and critical reflection.

Through projects such as The New Union Flag, No Man’s Lands, and Climate Refugees, I challenge systems of exclusion while imagining more compassionate and inclusive futures. My work exists at the intersection of art, activism, research, and community practice, grounded in the belief that culture can be a powerful force for justice and transformation.

I am an Arab-Jew, person of colour, migrant, neurodivergent, and queer person whose life has been shaped by living between cultures, languages, borders, and political realities. Growing up with overlapping and sometimes conflicting identities gave me an early awareness of exclusion, otherness, and the complexity of belonging. Experiences of migration, racism, homophobia, nationalism, and displacement have deeply influenced how I understand the world and my place within it.

Much of my life has involved navigating spaces where parts of my identity were misunderstood, politicised, invisible, or seen as contradictory. Existing between categories and communities has often meant living with tension, but it has also given me a strong sense of empathy and solidarity with others who experience marginalisation and exclusion.

I am neurodivergent, and this has shaped the way I experience communication, emotion, memory, space, and social structures. It has also influenced the ways I research, connect with people, and approach creativity and activism. My background in curatorial studies, PhD research in architecture, journalism, and grassroots activism became the foundation from which my artistic practice emerged. As a self-taught artist, I developed my work outside traditional art school structures, through lived experience, political engagement, and collaborative work with communities across different parts of the world.

These intersecting experiences continue to shape my understanding of identity, resilience, justice, and collective care.