His recent work explores the meaning and ability of gestures in spaces of political conflict. Between the aestheticization of experienced realities and the instrumentalization of aesthetic sensibilities, what space should be occupied? Using a poetic approach, Mismar’s work deals with conflict and its possibilities of representation. He has a master’s degree in fine arts and visual and critical studies from the California College of the Arts and is an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut. His works have been exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Beirut. He received the Student Fulbright Award, Barclay Simpson Award, AICAD Scholarship, Violet Jabara Trust Grant and was awarded the residency programs Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, SOMA and Montalvo.