Born in Tamra, 1965, lives and works in Tamra
1984–1985 Studied painting with the artist Khalil Rayan, Tamra
1985–1989 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1999–2006 Taught sculpture at the Arab Institute for Continuing Studies, Sakhnin
2003–2007 Diploma in Museum Studies, Tel Aviv University
2004–2010 Founder, director and curator of the municipal gallery, Tamra
2009 Art instructor, Nazareth College
2010–2011 Curator, Jaffa Salon of Palestinian Art
Ahmad Solo Exhibitions
1989 Ploughs, Al Hakawati Palestinian National Theater, Jerusalem (curator: Suleiman
Mansour)
1992 Wooden Platforms The Municipal Gallery, Nazareth (curator: Marie Abu Jaber)
1995 Wooden Platforms The Gallery at Tarshiha (curator: Rana Bishara)
1996 New Paintings, The Center Gallery, Nazareth (curator: Marie Abu Jaber)
Wooden Platforms, Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra (curator: Rivka Sinai)
1998 Wooden Platforms, The Educational Gallery, University of Haifa (curators: Avner
Katzs students)
2001 Anat, Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov (curator: Ruth
Shidmon)
2002 The Land, Center for Science, Arts and Technology, Tamra (curator: Ahmad Canaan)
Here I Am, The Peace Gallery, Jewish-Arab Center for Peace, Givat Haviva (curators:
Osnat Ben Shalom and Etti Amiram)
2003 Self-Portrait, The Gallery at Ort Braude College, Carmiel (curator: Shlomi
Schwarzberg) catalogue
2004 Anat, The Center Gallery, Nazareth (curator: Marie Abu Jaber)
2006 The Knight, Al Hallaj Gallery, Ramallah (curator: Nabil Anani) catalogue
2007 Knight of Dreams, permanent exhibition in the Canaan artists private gallery, Tamra
2008 Quest, M. Beck Gallery, Homburg, Germany (curator: Mathias Peck)
2009 Knight of Dreams, Al Hakawati Palestinian National Theater, Jerusalem (curator: Ahmad Canaan)
2009 On a Thin Wire, Tal Greenfield Gallery, Kfar Vradim (curator: Adi Greenfield)
Paintings, Sadnaot Haomanim, Tel Aviv, in conjunction with the Seeing Art festival (curator: Orna Lutsky)
2010 New Paintings, White House Gallery, Kibbutz Nir Oz (curator Haim Perry)
Sculpture exhibition, The Scots Hotel, Tiberius (curator: Sharona Cohen)
Selected Group Exhibitions
1989 Recipients of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize,
Museum of Art, Ein Harod (curator: Surin Heller)
1990 Recipients of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize,
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
1991 Place and Mainstream, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan;
Hara Museum ARCD, Gunma, Japan; The National Museum, Korea (curator: Reviva Regev) catalogue
1993 Unity, Salt Lake Arts Center, Utah (curator: Suzanna Klotz)
Instant Recognition, Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv (curator curator:kerstin Anna hartnick )
catalogue
1994 Nine Artists from Jerusalem, Salanka Hall, Moscow; Manege Exhibition Hall, St.
Petersburg (curator: Alexander Okun) catalogue
Begegnungen (Encounters), Dresden Opera House, Germany (curator:kerstin Anna hartnick )
1995 Peace, Edmond Fleg Cultural Center, Marseilles, France (curators: Hedva Shemesh
and Jack Persikian) catalogue
From the Galilee to Jerusalem, Al Wasti Art Center, Jerusalem (curator: Taysir Barakat)
1995 sculpture instillation . Jerusalem theater. Israel festival, Jerusale,curator hedva shemesh
1996 Jericho Nights, Picadilly-Jericho Cultural Center, Jericho (curator: Khaled Hourani)
Site-ations, international site-specific art event, Cardiff, Wales (curators: Doron Pollock and Sean OReilly)
Construction in process: Coexistence, The Artists Museum, Mitzpeh Ramon (curator: Doron Pollock) catalogue
Encounter(meeting), The Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland (curators: Doron Pollock and Rycard wasko. catalogue
1997 Layers of Paint, Chagall House, Haifa (curator: Abed Abedi)
Paradise, Pyramida Gallery, Haifa (curator: Avraham Eilat)
The International Biennale of Alexandria, Egypt,
(curator of the Palestinian Pavilion: Mohammad Khalil) catalogue
1998 Keinan-Canaan, an sculptures exhibition with Amos Keinan, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (curator: Hana Kofler)
Story Time, The Artists House, Jerusalem; The Center Gallery, Nazareth; Candid Arts Trust, London (curator: Anna Shahrabani). catalogue
The 50th Anniversary of the Nakba, Municipal Galley, Nazareth (curator: Marie Abu Jaber)
1999 The Gate, The National Gallery, Amman (curator: Rasmi Hamza) catalogue
2000 Identity, Thoughts and Vision, traveling exhibition, US (curator: Anton Biedermann)
Expo 2000, The Jordanian Pavilion, Hannover, Germany
2001 The Sculpture Festival, Umm el-Fahem (curators: Said Abu Shakra and Eli Shuki)
A Moment after the Moment Before, High Touch Gallery, Herzliya Pituach and Umm el-Fahem Gallery (curator: Daphna Naor) catalogue
2002 Stone Sculpture Festival, The National Museum, Amman;Jordan (curator: The Royal Society
of Fine Arts) catalogue
Williamsburg Bridges Palestine, Brooklyn, New York (curator: Samia Halaby) catalogue
2003 Black/White, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (curator: Hana Kofler) catalogue
Birds, Haim Sturman House, Ein Harod (curator: Sara Tandet Ron)
Palestinian art exhibition, Nissan Gallery, Doha, Qatar (curator: Ahmad al Razem)
2005 Visit Palestine, 4 Walls Gallery, Amman (curator: Majida Al-Muasher), catalogue
Stone s on the Boarder, Saarbrücken, Germany (curators: Halima Alian, Alfred Diwersy and Paul Schneider) catalogue and documentary film
Wounds and Bandages, Umm el-Fahem Gallery (curator: Effi Gan)
Spring in Gifna, International Art Festival, Gifna, Ramallah (curators: Khaled Hourani and Maliha Maslamani)
Public Sculptures, Alternative Gallery, Jaffa; curator: Moshe Kedem
Yallah, The Artists House, Tel Aviv (curators: Yair Rotman and Frank Pio)
Black Coffee, Beit Hagefen, Haifa (curator: Hana Kofler) catalogue
Palestinian Art, Mercado Center, Dubai; exhibition organized by Palestinian Association of Contemporary Art(PACA)
Five Palestinian Artists from Israel, Haido Besermi, Hungaria (curator: Abed Abedi)
A3, Pyramida Gallery, Haifa (curator: Yaakov Hefetz)
Bread and Roses, Givatayim Theater (curators: Nir Nader and Dani Ben Simhon)
We Wont Forget Lebanon, traveling exhibition organized by The Freedom Theater, and Sweden (curator: Juliano Mer-Khamis)
2005 , Alon Museum, Ginosar (curator: Nava Shoshani)
2006Refugees, Nikaia, Greece (curator: Lily Bakoyannis) catalogue
2007 Partners, Beit Hafegen, Haifa (curator: Smadar Schindler)
Sculpture – Foreign Language, The Artists House, Tel Aviv (curator: Daniela Talmor) catalogue
Sculptures in the Academic Courtyard, The Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education, Haifa (curator: Daniela Talmor)
Embroideries: Embroidery and Calligraphy in the Works of Contemporary Artists in Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (curators: Haim Maor and students) catalogue
Mask – Identity, Gebo Art Space, Tel Aviv (curators: Nurit Tenne and Rafi Barbibay
Portraits, The Municipal Gallery, Tamra (curator: Ahmad Canaan)
2008 Custom identity :Michmanim art gallery. curator Orna Oren
Colors under Siege, Rashad al Shawa Center, Gaza (curator: shababik atelier .Shareef Sarhan)
Its Going to Be Olympic, Gebo Art Space, Tel Aviv (curator: Yochanan Simon)
Secret Art, Mani House Museum, Bank Leumi, Tel Aviv (curators: Esti Drori and Doron Pollock) catalogue
Correspondence, The Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem (curator: Farid Abu Shakra) catalogue
Bread and Roses, Minshar for Art, Tel Aviv (curators: Dani ben Simhon and Nir Nader)
The Country and Its People, The Mormon University, Jerusalem (curator: Naomi Weinstein)
Passport, exhibition in homage to Mahmoud Darwish, Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah; Birzeit University Museum; darat al funun, Amman, Jordan (curator: Misbah Deeb-Almahatta gallery and Al Qattan foundation ,and the Palestinian ministry of colture)מיסבאח דיב –גלריה אלמחטה
2009 Man, Land, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem (curator: Raffi Etgar) catalogue
7x7, Cairo Bank Gallery, Amman, Jordan (curator: Mohammad Al Jaloos) catalogue
Drawings by Sculptors, Museum Schloss Fellenberg, Merzig,
Germany (curator: Marianne Nola-Maragliano) catalogue
In family unity, unity of the work Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia (curator: Nadya Odegova
Organizing committee of the exhibition
Ekaterinburg Art Foundation
2010 Neighbors, Wadi Nisnas, Haifa (curators: Abed Abedi and Inbar Dror Lux) catalogue
Palestinian art exhibition in Muscat, Oman; an initiative of Al Mahatta Gallery, Ramallah, and the Palestinian Ministry of Culture (curator: Esmat Asaad)
Jaffa Salon of Palestinian Art, Jaffa Port (curator: Ahmad Canaan)
-some thing must happen Gazza culture center.curator Iyad sabah
2010-Kayan- sculptures exhibition .Palestinian art court. Jerusalem .curator :Mirna Bamieh
2010-sculpture symposium in Carmeal. Curator Salo Shaul
2011-Ostraka festival of fine art.Sharam Al Shikh. curator Mohamed Hemeda
Awards and grants
1988 ,1989 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize
2001, 2002 Teacher-Artist Grant, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport
2003 Artist in the Community Grant, Omanut Laam
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Four annual grants, for the municipal gallery in Tamra, Omanut Laam
2009 Prize given by the Heskia-Hacmun Law Firm for best participating artist in a group exhibition at Gebo Art Space, Tel Aviv
2010 Artist in the Community Grant, Israeli Ministry of Culture