Khaled Hourani
Crowd #1, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
45 3/10 × 40 1/5 in, 115 × 102 cm
Khaled Hourani, Born in Hebron, Palestine, in 1965. Khaled
Hourani lives and works in Ramallah. He was Artistic Director (2007-2010) and
Director (2010-2013) of the International Academy of Art Palestine, of which he
is also one of the co-founders. He previously worked as the General Director of
the Fine Arts Department of the Palestinian Ministry of Culture (2004-2006).
Hourani has participated in many local and international exhibitions, most
recently in a retrospective at Darat Al Funun in Amman , Jordan (2017).
In 2014,
his first retrospective exhibition took place at the CCA in Glasgow and Gallery
One in Ramallah. He exhibited works at the Times Museum in Guangzhou, China and
in the 2nd CAFA Biennale of the CAFA Museum in Beijing. He also participated in
dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
Moreover, Hourani was also one of the artists of the Sharjah Biennial in 2011.
Hourani was the initiator of the 2011 Picasso in Palestine project. He has
curated and organized several exhibitions, is an art critic and an active
member and founder of a number of cultural and art institutions. Recently, he
was the recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Prize, Creative Time for Art and
Social Change in New York City.
Hourani has been working for over a year on a book project,
which is itself based on a novel about a painting titled Jamal Al Mahamel by
Palestinian artist Suleiman Mansour. This artwork was sold to the former
Libyan president Muammar al Gaddafi in the 1970s. Through this project, Hourani
seeks to figure out what happened to the painting and the circumstances of its
disappearance after the 2011 political upheavals in Libya. He also raises the
question of the perception of art both in Palestine and Libya. More
on Khaled Hourani
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