Nour Shantout is an artist, researcher, and educator, born in Damascus and based in Vienna since 2015. She received the Helen El Khal Prize (2014) and earned an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2020. She was a visiting lecturer at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Architecture of the Graz University of Technology (2022–2024) and at the Institute for Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2023–2024). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.

Her work centers on themes of subjugated heritage, counter-memory and history, labor, and alienation, approached from a postcolonial feminist perspective. It is situated in continuity with the political application of Palestinian embroidery, a practice that emerged from the struggle for Palestinian liberation.