Dean Majd (b. 1990) is a Palestinian-American self-taught, lens-based artist born and based in Queens, New York. Majd began forming his intimate and cinematic 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 addiction and self-destruction. His work also explores the complexities of the Arab-American dichotomy and the Palestinian diaspora against apartheid, and how they overlap.

Majd has been profiled by Aperture, MATTE Magazine, and AnOther Magazine. His editorial work has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, Dazed, and New York Magazine among others. 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.

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