About
DEAN MAJD (b. 1990) is a self-taught Palestinian American artist born and based in Queens, New York. Majd began forming his intimate visual language after being given his first camera at seven years old by his mother. His diaristic work engages with violence as an imposed center-point of one’s life, focusing on repressed, negative emotions within contemporary masculinity in relation to the cycles of self-destruction. His work also explores the complexities of the Arab-American dichotomy and the Palestinian diaspora against apartheid, and how they overlap.
His work has been published by Aperture, AnOther Magazine, Dazed, New York, and The New Yorker. His debut solo exhibition Hard Feelings was presented at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York in 2026, and his work has been featured in several group exhibitions, including the 2023 iteration of the Museum of the City of New York’s triennial, New York Now, and MoMA PS1’s Greater New York 2026. He has received residencies from the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, and Light Work, Syracuse, New York, as well as the 2025 En Foco Fellowship Award. His first monograph, Hard Feelings, will be published by Aperture in 2027.
He is passionate about cinema, immensely devoted to his friends, and a proud New Yorker. He believes that love, above all else, is the driving force behind everything he does.
Aperture Profile:
Introducing: The Queens Photographer Building a Legacy for His Friends
Inquiries: studio@deanmajd.com
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Commercial portfolio available upon request*