Hala Kaddoura is an artist, writer, producer, and community organizer who can not seem to escape her psyche. She has a deep longing and a yearning for spirituality, consciousness, landscape, familiarity, and oral history. She is fascinated by embodied and ancestral knowledge and by the unseen. She is interested in things beyond what our eyes can see and the space—where, universes form, collide and connect. The artist believes in our ability to transcend—beyond limitations: languages, religions, cultures, and borders. The artist primarily works in video, film, photography, and words. In her work, Hala seeks liberation, presence, pleasure, and transcendence.
Hala Kaddoura received her MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley (2022), and her BS in Business, Marketing with a minor in Sociology from the Lebanese American University in Beirut (2013).
Hala exhibited and showcased work at the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Refugee Eye Gallery San Francisco and at the Arab Women in the Arts by The Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI). She was awarded grants by Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Berkeley Center for New Media, UC Berkeley's Center for Middle East Studies: The Sultan Program in Arab Studies Scholarship, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. In 2022, Hala received a scholarship to attend the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop.
Prior to pursuing an MFA, Hala worked at the Sundance Institute in Los Angeles as a Social Media Manager. She introduced the #ArabHeritageMonth to the Institute’s yearly Heritage Month Calendar and initiated on Instagram: Arab Filmmakers At Sundance at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She also led and produced a partnership between Sundance Co//ab and CARE organization—resulting in a hybrid 6 months mentorship filmmaking program in Arabic—created to empower Syrian youth at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan to tell their stories.
Hala was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and raised in Lebanon as a Palestinian refugee. Between October 2016 - 2022, Hala lived in California. In October 2025, Hala returned to the U.S.—making ways to Dallas, Texas.
