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List Of Palestinian Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Palestine or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A * Jumana Emil Abboud (born 1971), contemporary artist *Karimeh Abbud (1893–1955), artist, photographer * Maliheh Afnan (1935–2016), visual artist *Laila Ajjawi (active since 2015), graffiti artist *Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935), visual artist * Iman Al Sayed (born 1984), contemporary artist *Sama Raena Alshaibi (born 1973), conceptual artist H * Rula Halawani (born 1964), photographic artist * Alexandra Handal (born 1975), Haitian-born contemporary artist and filmmaker *Mona Hatoum (born 1952), Lebanese-born video and installation artist * Jumana El Husseini (1932–2018), painter, sculptor, based in Paris J *Emily Jacir (born 1972), contemporary artist, filmmaker S * Raeda Saadeh (born 1977), visual artist *Laila Shawa (born 1940), visual artist *Ahlam Shibli (born 1970), photographer {{Lists of women artists by nationality - Palestinian women artists, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Palestine
Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), Legal status of the State of Palestine, officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state (polity), state located in Western Asia. Officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it claims the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip as its territory, though the entirety of that territory has been Israeli-occupied territories, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. As a result of the Oslo Accords of 1993–1995, the West Bank is currently divided into 165 Palestinian enclaves that are under partial Palestinian National Authority (PNA) rule; the remainder, including 200 Israeli settlement, Israeli settlements, is under Area C (West Bank), full Israeli control. The Gaza Strip has been ruled by the militant Islamic group Hamas and has been subject to Blockade of the Gaza Strip, a long-term blockade by Egypt and Israel since 2007. After W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum ( ar, منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum was ineligible for a Lebanese identity card and does not identify as Lebanese. As she grew up, her family did not support her desire to pursue art. She continued to draw throughout her childhood, though, illustrating her work from poetry and science classes. Hatoum studied graphic design at Beirut University College in Lebanon for two years and then began working at an advertising agency. Hatoum was displeased with the advertising work she produced. During a visit to London in 1975, the Lebanese Civil War broke out and Hatoum was forced into exile. She stayed in London, training at both the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art (University College, London) between the years 1975 and 1981. In the years since, "she has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Women Artists By Nationality
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Palestinian Women Artists
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=none, ), are an ethnonational group descending from peoples who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who are today culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the territory of former British Palestine, now encompassing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (the Palestinian territories) as well as Israel. In this combined area, , Palestinians constituted 49 percent of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus some 600,000 Israeli settlers, which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahlam Shibli
Ahlam Shibli ( ar, أحلام شبلي, born 1970) is a Palestinian photographer from Israel. Her work explores themes of home and belonging and documents the life of Arabs in villages unrecognized by Israel in the Negev and northern Galilee regions.Photography Between Poetry and Politics: The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Art Hilde Van Gelder, Helen Westgeestref, pp. xiv, 123–124. Biography Shibli was born in Israel. The catalog for an exhibition she held in Italy stated that she defines herself as a "Palestinian from Israel."[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laila Shawa
Laila Shawa (4 April 1940 – 24 October 2022) was a Palestinian visual artist whose work has been described as a personal reflection concerning the politics of her country, particularly highlighting perceived injustices and persecution. She was one of the most prominent and prolific artists of the Arabic revolutionary contemporary art scene. As a Palestinian living in the Gaza Strip for her formative years and the daughter of Rashad al-Shawa, activist and mayor of Gaza City, Shawa's revolutionary mindset was inculcated at a young age. Often her artwork, which included paintings, sculptures, and installations, worked with photographs that served as the base for silkscreen printing. Her work has been internationally exhibited and is displayed in many public (e.g. The British Museum) and private collections. Early life Laila Shawa was born in Gaza on 4 April 1940, eight years prior to the Palestinian Nakba and the founding of the State of Israel. Shawa was well educated; she a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raeda Saadeh " ART COLOGNE, Germany
*2005 "Mediterranean Encounters," Castello Ruffo, Scilla-Italy
*2004 "Mediterraneans," Macro Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, ...
Raeda Saadeh (born 1977) is a Palestinian artist. She won the 2000 "The Young Artist of the Year Award," by the Qattan Foundation. Life She was born in Umm al-Fahm, a Palestinian-populated city in the North of Israel. She received her BFA and MFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. She studied at the School of Visual Arts. Her work is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Fonds régional d'art contemporain, and Le Magasin. She lives and works in Jerusalem. Exhibitions *2007 "Vacuum" screened in Sharjah Biennial 8 *2005 "Sharjah Art Museum The Sharjah Art Museum is an art museum in the city of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.Sharjah Art Museum [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Jacir
Emily Jacir ( ar, املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Biography Jacir was born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended the University of Dallas, Memphis College of Art and graduated with an art degree. She divides her time between New York and Ramallah. She is the older sister of the filmmaker and artist Annemarie Jacir. Work and career Jacir works in a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, writing and sound. She draws on the artistic medium of concept art and social intervention as a framework for her pieces, in which she focuses on themes of displacement, exile, and resistance, primarily within the context of Palestinian occupation. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in places including New York City, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London and Linz. Active in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumana El Husseini
Jumana El-Husseini, (2 April 1932 – 11 April 2018) was a Palestinian painter and sculptor born in Jerusalem, who later lived in Paris. She won many medals and has an extensive international exhibition record. Jumana El-Husseini died in her home in Paris on 11 April 2018 at the age of 86. She studied painting, sculpture and ceramics in Beirut and Paris. Noted for figurative paintings of Palestinian women and geometric houses in Jerusalem and Jericho, her style evolved from realistic to geometric and, since 1987, to abstract, with wavelike overpainted drawings evoking Arabic calligraphy. Personal life Jumana El-Husseini was born to a prominent Palestinian family. Her grandfather, Hajj Amin El-Husseini, was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the Mandate era and an important figure in the resistance against British and Zionist colonial rule. In 1948, El-Husseini and her family were forced to leave Palestine as a result of the 1948 Nakba and they resettled in Beirut, Lebanon. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Handal
Alexandra Sophia Handal (born 1975) is a Haiti-born Palestinian artist, filmmaker and essayist. Handal has been Based in Europe since 2004, but spends extended periods of time in Palestine. After living for ten years in London, Handal moved for a time to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, before residing in Berlin, Germany with her family, where she has established her studio. Biography Due to her family's displacement from Palestine, Handal has spent time in many countries. Her family is Bethlehemite from Palestine. She was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1975 during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. Her family eventually moved to the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where Handal spent her teenage years. She went on to pursue art at Boston University, where she obtained a BFA in painting and minor in art history in 1997; followed by an MA degree in studio art from New York University in 2001. In 2004, Handal was granted a UAL Research Studentship Award to undertake a pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumana Emil Abboud
Jumana Emil Abboud ( ar, جمانة إميل عبّود) is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem. She was born in Shefa-'Amr, Galilee and came to Ontario, Canada with her parents in 1979. She began her studies at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. In 1991, she relocated to Jerusalem where she continued her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, receiving a BFA and a post-graduated diploma. Abboud has used drawing, video, performance, objects and text in her work which deals with memory, both personal and collective history, loss and resilience. She was a finalist for the Celeste Prize in 2013. She has had solo exhibitions in Tel Aviv, at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Forum Schlossplatz in Aarau, Switzerland. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial. the Bahrain National Museum in Manama, the Arab World Institute in Paris, The Jerusalem Show, the Darat al Funun in Amman, at the Carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rula Halawani
Rula Halawani (born 1964) is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem. She was born in East Jerusalem and received a BA in photography from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in photographic studies from the University of Westminster. Before turning to visual arts, she worked as a freelance photojournalist for a number of magazines and newspapers. Halawani is director of the photography department at Birzeit University. In 2016, she was given a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis. Her work has appeared in exhibitions in London, in Dubai, in Beirut, at the Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman, at the Sharjah Biennial, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at the Noorderlicht festival, in Rome, at Le Botanique in Brussels, at the Busan Biennale in South Korea and at the Arab World Institute in Paris. Collections Halawani's work is held in the following permanent collections: *Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris *Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
