Notable Palestinians — Visual Arts

Notable Palestinians — Visual Arts

• Naji al-Ali (1937–1987) — Naji Salim Hussain al-Ali was a Palestinian political cartoonist whose biting, uncompromising drawin…
• Mona Hatoum (1952–present) — Mona Hatoum (born 1952 in Beirut) is among the most internationally acclaimed artists of Palestinian…
• Emily Jacir (1970–present) — Emily Jacir (born 1970) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker whose conceptually rigorous, research-…
• Samia Halaby (1936–present) — Samia Halaby is a pioneering Palestinian-American abstract painter, scholar and political activist w…
• Ismail Shammout (1930–2006) — Ismail Shammout (1930-2006), born in Lydda, is widely considered the founding father of contemporary…
• Sliman Mansour (1947–present) — Sliman Mansour (born 1947 in Birzeit) is one of the most renowned and influential modern Palestinian…
• Kamal Boullata (1942–2019) — Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a Palestinian abstract artist and art historian born in the Christian…
• Taysir Batniji (1966–present) — Taysir Batniji (born 1966 in Gaza) is a leading contemporary Palestinian artist working across drawi…
• Laila Shawa (1940–2022) — Laila Shawa was a pioneering Palestinian artist whose vivid, politically charged work made her one o…
• Nabil Anani (1943–present) — Nabil Anani (born 1943 in Latroun) is one of the key founders of the contemporary Palestinian art mo…
• Larissa Sansour (1973–present) — Larissa Sansour (born 1973 in East Jerusalem) is a contemporary Palestinian artist who has become in…
• Mona Saudi (1945–2022) — Mona Saudi was a leading Arab sculptor of Palestinian heritage whose serene, monumental works in sto…
• Vera Tamari (1945–present) — Vera Tamari (born 1945 in Jerusalem) is a pioneering Palestinian ceramicist, installation artist, ar…
• Khalil Raad (1854–1957) — Khalil Raad (1854–1957) was a pioneering photographer widely regarded as the first Arab photographer…
• Khalil Rabah (1961–present) — Khalil Rabah is a leading Palestinian conceptual artist and a central figure in building contemporar…
• Tamam Al-Akhal (1935–2024) — Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935 in Jaffa) is one of the first formally trained Palestinian women artists a…
• Steve Sabella (1975–present) — Steve Sabella is a contemporary Palestinian artist working primarily in photography and photographic…
• Jumana Manna (1987–present) — Jumana Manna is an acclaimed Palestinian artist and filmmaker known for sculpture and moving-image w…
• Nicola Saig (1863–1942) — Nicola Saig (1863-1942) was a Jerusalem-born painter and iconographer widely regarded as one of the…
• Abed Abdi (1942–present) — Abed Abdi is a pioneering Palestinian artist and one of the most important figures among Palestinian…
• Jawad Al Malhi (1969–present) — Jawad Al Malhi is a Palestinian painter, photographer and multimedia artist whose work is grounded i…
• Karimeh Abbud (1893–1940) — Karimeh Abbud was born on 18 November 1893 in Bethlehem, then part of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem…
• Hani Zurob (1976–present) — Hani Zurob is a Palestinian painter whose richly textured, emotionally charged work explores exile,…
• Asad Azi (1955–present) — Asad Azi is a prominent Palestinian artist from the Druze community in Israel, recognized as one of…
• Khaled Hourani (1965–present) — Khaled Hourani is a Palestinian visual artist and cultural administrator born in 1965 in Hebron. He…
• Sophie Halaby (1906–1998) — Sophie Halaby was born in Jerusalem around 1906 to a Palestinian-Christian father, Jiryes (George) N…
• Khalil Halaby (1889–1964) — Khalil Halaby was born in Jerusalem in 1889, during the final decades of Ottoman rule, into the city…
• Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) — Andoni Baramki (1894–1972) was one of the best-known Arab Palestinian architects of the British Mand…
• Tayseer Barakat (1959–present) — Tayseer Barakat was born in 1959 in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, into a family origin…