Serge Hamad

Artist Statement

I’ve come to find abstract beauty in the natural chaos that surrounds me. When I uncover it, I frame and capture the moment, transforming it into a ‘Temporal Perception.’ At first glance, each of my works appears as a unified whole—colors and geometric shapes converging into a cohesive composition. But with closer inspection, our minds begin to dissect the image, revealing how much of our childhood innocence and wonder we’ve unknowingly left behind.

Biography

Serge Hamad is a visual artist based in New York, with French and Algerian roots. He began his journey in photography at a young age, using both video and photography to cover war zones and shed light on sociopolitical situations in places like Iraq and the Balkans during the mid-1980s.

Having been exposed to both Western and Eastern cultures in his youth, Serge Hamad believes that an artwork is successful when once injected into the communication channels it manages to awake a dialog.

In his Temporal Perception series, he transforms realistic images into abstract forms by blending colors and blurring the lines between photography and digital rendering. When viewed at first glance, the artworks appear to create a cohesive whole. The artist states, "It's only when our brain starts analyzing our vision that we realize how we've lost our childhood." In 2010, Serge Hamad shifted his focus mainly to Fine Art photography. His work has since been exhibited at various galleries in the US and internationally and has been auctioned at prestigious venues like Artsy, Christie's London, Sotheby's House, and the Robert Wilson's Water Mill Foundation.

bG Gallery LA
KW Contemporary Art Maine
Lumas Galleries Worldwide
Ideel Art

Scope NY / Miami

Affordable Art Fair NY

Hamptons Fine Art Fair

LA Art Show

Intersect Aspen

Art Palm Beach

2020: Solo Exhibition bG Gallery – Santa Monica, CA
SOMArts: “Take A Stand” – San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibition at Seyhoun Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
2014: Solo Exhibition at Waldorf Astoria: “OIC” – New York, NY

2019: Shock-Box – Los Angeles, CA
Kunst 10 Daagse Bergen – Netherlands
• 2015: Mirca Art Group Stockholm – Sweden
• 2014: Flickerlab Gallery – New York, NY
• 2014: Stichting White Cube: “Brøndby Strand” – Denmark
• 2014: Stichting White Cube: “Landshut” – Germany
• 2014: Shirin Gallery: “Alwan for The Arts” – New York, NY
• 2014: Stichting White Cube: “Abcoude” – Netherlands

Director of Photography

Several ones during the last years

Self-taught Artist

https://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/meet_the_artist/serge-hamad-i-always-felt-that-i-could-speak-out-in-a-deeper-sense-when-using-photography-56842

https://news.samsung.com/global/interview-visualizing-tranquility-serge-hamad-x-samsung-art-store

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/artist-serge-hamad-puts-o_n_912782