List of Palestinian artists

The following list of notable Palestinian artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Palestine, of Palestinian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Palestine.

A

• Jussuf Abbo (1890–1953), printmaker, sculptor
• Jumana Emil Abboud (born 1971), contemporary artist
• Karimeh Abbud (1893–1955), artist, photographer
• Hannan Abu-Hussein (born 1972), installation artist and video artist
• 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
• Dana Awartani (born 1987), Saudi-born Palestinian painter, video artist, and sand mosaicist

B

• Nidaa Badwan (born 1987), Emirati born Palestinian visual artist, now living in Italy
• Mohammed Bushnaq (1934–2017), painter and sculptor, Palestinian-born of Bosniak heritage

D

• Mohamed Dalo (born 1994), painter with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

E

• Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan (born 1941), painter, professor, television production designer, and television producer
• Ashraf Fayadh (born 1980), Saudi-born Palestinian visual artist and poet; sentenced to apostasy by the Saudi courts

F

• Hanna Farah-Kufer Bir'im (born 1960), installation artist and architect

G

• Asma Ghanem (born 1991) Syrian-born Palestinian photographer, visual artist, experimental musician
• Ibrahim Ghannam (1930–1984), Palestinian painter, who lived in Lebanon

H

• Samia Halaby (born 1936), Palestinian-born American painter, digital artist, activist, and educator
• John Halaka (born 1957), Egyptian-born American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and professor; of Lebanese and Palestinian ethnicity
• Rula Halawani (born 1964), photographic artist
• Mustafa al-Hallaj (1938–2002), graphic designer, painter, printmaker, sculptor
• Alexandra Handal (born 1975), Haitian-born contemporary artist and filmmaker
• Mona Hatoum (born 1952), Lebanese-born video and installation artist
• Ibrahim Hazimeh (born 1933), Palestinian-born German painter, designer, sculptor
• Jumana El Husseini (1932–2018), painter, sculptor, based in Paris

J

• Emily Jacir (born 1972), contemporary artist, filmmaker
• Khaled Jarrar (born 1976), photographer, video artist, sculptor, installation artist, and performance artist

M

• Jumana Manna (born 1987), American-born Palestinian installation artist and filmmaker
• Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara (1933–2020), Palestinian-born Jordanian self-taught painter

K

• Abdul Rahman Katanani (born 1984), sculptor
• Sari Ibrahim Khoury (1941–1997), Palestinian-born American painter, drawer

Q

• Zohdy Qardy (born 1972), painter

S

• Raeda Saadeh (born 1977), visual artist
• Larissa Sansour (born 1973), visual artist
• Ismail Shammout (1930–2006), Palestinian-born Jordanian painter and art historian
• Laila Shawa (born 1940), visual artist
• Ahlam Shibli (born 1970), photographer

W

• Sharif Waked (born 1964), painter

Z

• Hani Zurob (born 1976), Palestinian painter based in Paris

See also

• Hurufiyya movement - label given to calligraphy-based visual artists
• Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, artist duo of Palestinian heritage
• List of Palestinian Americans
• List of Palestinian painters
• List of Palestinian women artists
• Palestinian art

References

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