Omar Mismar holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut. He is a practicing professional in the design field and is involved in design-related research and artistic production. He joined the department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut in Spring 2011 as a part-time teacher. He was awarded the Fulbright scholarship for 2012–2014, and he is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Arts-Social Practice at the California College of the Arts.

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I walk, intervene, subvert, resist, satirize, converse, imagine, narrate, and browse.

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I investigate the everyday: what people do in the city, how we go about our routines, our free and alone time, our private versus public lives. I engage methodically with it, every day, over specific periods of time, and within rules and guidelines that I set for myself. I divert time, constructing a routine of my own. Oscillating between wanting to abandon it— to de-tour — and between the comfort that its discipline provides, this routine ends to start over differently. Time is occupied, a job is created. Repetition is a method and a process of working.