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HOSNI RADWAN, Palestine (1955)

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Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1955. Originally from Palestine, he received his BA from the University of Baghdad in 1978, majoring in Graphics. Radwan left to Beirut a year later to...

Hosni Radwan was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1955. Originally from Palestine, he received his BA from the University of Baghdad in 1978, majoring in Graphics. Radwan left to Beirut a year later to work in graphic design and journalism. He also created paintings in an attempt to serve the cause of his people. Highly influenced by the Iraqi artists, especially Jewad Selim, and Baghdad sceneries, Radwan built his aesthetics on a creation routed in its environment and borrowing its material from the West.

The place played a role in the media used by the artist: while roaming between Beirut, Cypress, and Tunisia, he used easy-to-carry tools like paper and fabric and executed mostly with ink and watercolor. After he returned and settled in Palestine, in 1994, Radwan found time and space to produce with more heavy material; he started mixing acrylic with sand, wood, and paper to recreate a world with its spaces, grooves, and conditions, all emerging from his memories. Radwan's artworks convey a sense of music and spiritualism. The artist lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017

Out of Place, Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

2015

Fragments, Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

2005

Palestine, Key to Culture & Peace, Martigny, Switzerland

2003

Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine

2002

Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine

2001

Al-Orphali Riwaq, Baghdad, Iraq

2000

Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine

1999

Al-wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine

1998

Al-Mattal Art Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

1996

M. Siyyam Hall, Ministry of Culture, Ramallah, Palestine

1991

Epocallipso Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus

1985

Space Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1983

Attasswer Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia

1978

Union of Writers Auditorium, Baghdad, Iraq

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

Jerusalem: Fifty-one Years of Occupation, Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

2017

Imago Mundi – Mediterranean Routes, Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee, Palermo, Italy

2016

Unlike Other Springs, Birzeit University Museum, Birzeit, Palestine
Crossroads, Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

2014

Colors of Life, Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

2009

29 km,Umm el Fahem Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Occupied Palestine
Passport – In Remembrance of Mahmoud Darwish, by 27 Palestinian Artists, Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan

2001

Days of Palestinian Culture, Canada
Palestinian Art, United Nation Building, New York, United States of America
Cactus, Bissan Gallery, Doha, Qatar
The 7thSharjah international Biennial, Al-Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

2000

Palestine Key to Culture & Peace – Modern Art Exhibition, Italy

1997

The 3rdSharjah International Biennial, Al-Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Mediterranean Exhibition for Arts, Tunis, Tunisia

1996

International Jakarta Biennial, Jakarta, Indonesia

1990

6X2, In Collaboration with Nimer Hammad, Italy

6X2, Geneva, Switzerland

1988

Palestinian Art, Nicosia, Cyprus

1987

The 4thInternational Biennial for Graphic Arts, Berlin, Germany

1986

JAALA Committee, Tokyo, Japan

1985

Arab Modern Art, Live Art Center, Tunis, Tunisia

1984

The 9thCairo International Biennial, Cairo, Egypt

1981

Palestinian Art, Moscow, Russia

1980

Ten Palestinian Artists,Brussels,Belgium

1979

Palestinian Artists’ Union, Beirut, Lebanon

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Birzeit University Museum, Birzeit, Palestine
Bank of Palestine Art Collection, Ramallah, Palestine

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