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 50^th 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)

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-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