Laila Shawa
Laila Shawa (b. 1940) is a Palestinian artist whose work has been described as a personal reflection concerning the politics of her country, particularly highlighting perceived injustices and persecution. She is one of the most prominent and prolific artists of the Arabic revolutionary contemporary art scene.
Larissa Sansour
Larissa Sansour (b. 1973) is an artist who works with film, photography and sculpture. Her works include Tank (2003), Bethlehem Bandolero (2005), Happy Days (2006), Cairo Taxilogue (2008), The Novel of Novel and Novel (2009), Falafel Road (2010), Palestinauts (2010), Nation State (2012), In the Future, They Ate From the Finest Porcelain (2016), and Archaeology in Absentia (2016).
Laura Boushnak
Laura Boushnak (b. 1976) is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer whose work is focused on women, literacy, and education reform in the Arab world. For her ongoing documentary project "I Read I Write" she photographed girls and women changing their lives with education in Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait, Jordan and Tunisia.
Mahmoud Qais
Mahmoud Qais is a Palestinian sculptor and artist who works with cement.
Maḥmoud Taha
Maḥmoud Taha (b. 1942) is a Palestinian artist, potter and ceramicist noted for integrating calligraphy into his ceramics and is regarded as the leading ceramicist in the Arab world.
Maliḥeh Afnan
Maliḥeh Afnan (1935-2016) works with paper on an intimate scale to create works of refined beauty. Inspired by predominantly archeology and script, her works allude to ancient scrolls and tablets. Yet, at other times, her abstract works appear as landscapes, figures or relics that have been excavated from a long-forgotten site.
Afnan's most recent solo exhibition was her retrospective Personnages, at Man Museo D'arte Provincia Di Nuoro, Sardinia, 2019 curated by Luigi Fassi.
Manal Maḥamid
Manal Maḥamid (b. 1976) is a multidisciplinary Palestinian artist who works across video, instillation Painting and Photography.
Matthew Khoury
Matthew Khoury (b. ) is an animator, illustrator and filmmaker currently based in Jerusalem.