About Me

STATEMENT: Rooted in a lifelong struggle with sleep and shaped by his Palestinian-American queer identities, Chamy channels mystic archetypes—the truth-teller, the prophet, the outlaw—to craft palimpsest-like visions that straddle ancestral memory and speculative dreaming. His work spans from minimalist watercolors meditating on land and culture to maximalist portraits and collages that blur fable and identity. Each piece becomes a site of translation: between the sacred and the mundane, the theatrical and the intimate, the visible and invisible.

BIOGRAPHY: Adam Chamy is a multidisciplinary Palestinian-American artist, writer, and architect based in Washington, DC. His art is deeply multidisciplinary incorporating a variety of media including short stories, found materials and mixed two dimensional media while always being in service of his unique otherworldly style and intersectional voice.

Chamy’s work has been shown at the United Nations East Gallery (NYC), Museo del Brigantaggio (Italy), and al-Quds Gallery (Washington, DC). His solo exhibition Of Refuge, Of Home was featured by NPR and The Washington Post. He is also the 2023 Half-Light Press Short Story Prize winner for The Two Halves House, a parable exploring themes of national borders and family myth-making architect based in Washington, DC. He received architectural training at the University of Maryland and focused on sociocultural anthropology, fine arts, and international affairs at the George Washington University.