Nabil Anani ( ar, نبيل عناني born 1943), is a
Palestinian artist and one of the founders of the contemporary
Palestinian art movement.
Biography
After his graduation in 1969, from the faculty of Fine Arts at
Alexandria University, Anani returned to Palestine to start his career as an artist and trainer at the UN training college in
Ramallah
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. His first exhibition in Jerusalem was in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan. He was appointed in 1998 as the head of the League of Palestinian Artists and was a key played to establish the first
International Academy of Art in Palestine. Because his art was an expression of collective identity it encountered the military censorship of Israeli authorities, the combined use of four colors of the Palestinian flag was prohibited and he, together with the other members of the league, was subjected to arrest and interrogation.
Nabil was also awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 by
Yasser Arafat.
Selected exhibitions
* 2014: “Life before 1948”,
Zawyeh art gallery, Ramallah
* 2013: ‘Spirit of the land”, Art on 56th, Beirut
* 2011: “Art Palestine”, Meem Gallery,
Dubai
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* 2007: ‘A Journey into Script’, Foyles Gallery, London
* 2001:
Sharjah Biennial
* 1995: “It’s possible, Palestinian and Israeli artists”, National Museum, Washington
Memorials
During his career, Nabil Anani was commissioned to work on building memorials in Palestine:
* 1986 Statue of aluminum front of the Inash Family Association building, in collaboration with Suleiman Mansour
* 1987 mural front of Faculty of Educational Sciences and the College of Women's Society, Ramallah
* 1993 Metal memorial statue in
Kaukab Abu al-Hija park,
Galilee
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* 2002 Statue of Liberty in Ramallah
See also
Zawyeh art gallery
References
External links
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1943 births
Living people
Palestinian contemporary artists
Alexandria University alumni
Palestinian expatriates in Egypt