Wafaa Bilal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wafaa Bilal

American artist

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1966

Place of Birth: Najaf, Najaf Governorate, Iraq

Profession: artist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Wafaa Bilal (Arabic: ???? ????? [wæfæ b?l???l?]; born June 10, 1966) is an Iraqi American artist, a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an associate professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
He is best known for his work, Domestic Tension, a performance piece in which he lived in a gallery for a month and was shot by paintballs remotely by internet users watching from a webcam and for his book, Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance under the Gun, based on that performance, which details the horrors of living in a conflict zone and growing up under Saddam Hussein's regime.