Dreams Against Empire

Hussam Hamad, a Palestinian American artist working across painting and photography to explore the complexities of identity, memory, and cultural heritage. Large-scale canvases blend expressive abstraction with elements of cyberpunk and psychedelic aesthetics, creating visual worlds that reflect layered personal and collective histories. Through both portraiture and landscape, intimacy and symbolism, his work invites reflection on belonging, transformation, and the evolving language of diasporic experience.