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RULA HALAWANI, Palestine (1964)

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Rula Halawani, a native of occupied East Jerusalem is a photographer and educator based in Jerusalem. She began her artistic journey by documenting the harsh realities of life under protracted...

Rula Halawani, a native of occupied East Jerusalem is a photographer and educator based in Jerusalem. She began her artistic journey by documenting the harsh realities of life under protracted political conflict. Her early work captures the myriad challenges of daily existence under military occupation and the sudden transformations of Palestinian neighborhoods into war zones during periods of violent siege.

Halawani earned a Bachelor of Art in Advanced Photography from the University of Saskatchewan in 1989, and a Master of Art in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster, London in 2001. She has also served as the founding director and an associate professor of the Photography program at Birzeit University. In 2016, the artist was awarded a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and in 2021, she received the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project Award.

Halawani's work has been exhibited globally at venues such as the Guangdong Museum of Art in China, the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, and the American University Museum in Washington DC. Halawani's photographs are part of prestigious collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and The British Museum.

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CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Rula Halawani: For You Mother, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2020

Rula Halawani: For You Mother, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2016

Rula Halawani: For My Father, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Rula Halawani: For My Father, Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

2008

Rula Halawani, Botanique, Brussels, Belgium

2006

Dreams - Photos by Rula Halawani, La Nau, Centro Cultural de la Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain
Rula Halawani - Images of the Wall, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan

2005

Rula Halawani - Negative Incursion, Focale, Nyon, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

From Palestine With Art, P21 Gallery, London, UK
A Matter of Time, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Dlúpháirtíocht: Irish Solidarity With Palestine, P21 Gallery, London, UK
Summer Collective: Lens & Light: Moments in Focus, Ayyam Gallery Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2023

A L’ombre Des Clichés. Photographies D’afrique Et Du Moyen-Orient, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
In Solidarity with Palestine, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
Popular, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

2022

More Than Your Eyes Can See: Contemporary Photography from the Arab World, MEI Art Gallery, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., USA

2021

Darat al Funun Re-Opening, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan

2019

Summer Collective. you + topia II, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
Times of Upheaval. Stories and microstories in the IVAM collection, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain

2018

Rola Khayyat: Light in Wartime, apexart, New York, USA
You + Topia, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2017

Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, Center for Visual Art, Colorado, USA
Our Night is Long, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
In Rebellion. Female Narratives In The Arab World, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain

2016

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington D.C., USA
10:52, Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2015

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

2013

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2008

Are We There Yet?, Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, Chicago, USA

RULA HALAWANI Artwork

Untitled 8 (For your mother series)

RULA HALAWANI, Palestine, 2020
118 x 148 cm

Untitled 11 (For your mother series)

RULA HALAWANI, Palestine, 2020
119 x 148 cm

Untitled 1 (For your mother series)

RULA HALAWANI, Palestine, 2020
100 x 150

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