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Ashraf Fawakhry

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Ashraf Fawakhry (b. 1974) is a Palestinian artist from Mazra'a currently active in Haifa.

First Name
Ashraf
Last Name
Fawakhry
Occupation
Visual Artist
Years Active
1996-present
Active in
Haifa

Basel Abbas

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Basel Abbas (b. 1983) is part of an artist duo Ruanne Abou-Rahmeh Together they work across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality. Across their works they probe a contemporary landscape marked by seemingly perpetual crisis and an endless ‘present’, one that is shaped by a politics of desire and disaster.

First Name
Basel
Last Name
Abbas
Occupation
Artist,
Years Active
2009-present
Active in
Ramallah/New York

Basma Alsharif

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Basma Alsharif’s (b. 1983) work deals with the difficult transmission of the history of Palestine, between fiction and reality. Working primarily with film and multimedia installations, her images are seen through other images, frames collapse into other frames, space is familiar and anonymous, urban civilization and wildlife dissolve into each other as past, present and future collaborate on a single timeline.

First Name
Basma
Last Name
Alsharif
Occupation
Filmmaker, Visual Artist,
Years Active
2013-present
Active in
Cairo

Benji Boyadgian

Benji Boyadgian is a Palestinian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1983. Their work was featured in exhibitions at the Istanbul Modern and the Öktem&Aykut. 

First Name
Benji
Last Name
Boyadgian
Occupation
Contemporary Artist
Active in
Jerusalem

Buthaina Abu Melhem

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Buthaina Abu Melhem (b. 1961), is a Palestinian artist living and wokring in Ararah. In her work she uses elements of embroidery and dress-making.

First Name
Buthaina
Last Name
Abu Melhem
Occupation
Artist
Years Active
2000-present
Active in
Ararah

Dana Awartani

The works of Saudi-Palestinian artist Dana Awartani are acts of continual revival, performances of contemporisation. Intricate manuscript illumination, parquetry, ceramics, and embroidery, on first encounter, to be finely wrought examples of traditional Islamic art forms.

First Name
Dana
Last Name
Awartani
Occupation
Artist
Years Active
2009-present
Active in
Jeddah

Dina Mimi

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Dina Mimi is a visual artist, living and working in Jerusalem, Palestine. Her practice is multi-faceted and uses video, sound, performance and text. For the past three years, Dina has been interested in issues of death and human remains in the public sphere, such as the normalisation of death in public sites, suicide subject; martyrdom, body protest and self-immolation specifically in Palestine.

First Name
Dina
Last Name
Mimi
Occupation
Visual Artist,
Years Active
2015-present
Active in
Jerusalem

Elias Wakeem

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Elias Wakeem (b. 1991), also known as Madame Tayoush, is a queer Palestinian visual and performance artist currently based in Haifa.

First Name
Elias
Last Name
Wakeem
Occupation
Performance Artist,
Years Active
2014-present
Active in
Haifa

Emily Jacir

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Emily Jacir (b. 1973) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. 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.

First Name
Emily
Last Name
Jacir
Occupation
Filmmaker, Artist,
Years Active
1994-present
Active in
Ramallah/New York

Essa Ghrayeb

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Essa Grayeb (b. 1984) is a Palestinian visual artist working acroos different media including photography, video, installation and text. In his work he touches upon the notions of representation, absence and loss.

First Name
Essa
Last Name
Ghrayeb
Occupation
Visual Artist,
Years Active
2016-present
Active in
Jerusalem