 The Artist: Born in Imwas, Latroun, in 1943, Nabil Anani was raised in Halhoul, and graduated in photography from the Fine Arts College of Alexandria in 1969. Anani's first exhibit was in 1972, and he has participated in about 20 group exhibitions in Palestine, various Israeli cities, Amman, Cairo, Assilah, Naples, London, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Washington, Bonn, Madrid, etc... In addition, he has authored a number of art books and was a founding member of the "New Vision" artists group in 1987 and of the Jerusalem Wasiti Center in 1994. Anani held his seventh exhibit at the Sakakini in December 1996. He was awarded in 1997 the first Palestine Prize for Visual Arts. He was elected in 1998 as the head of the Palestinian Artist’s League. He participated in a Palestinian art group exhibit at Norway's Drammens Museum in August 1999. Anani currently resides in Ramallah. He is a member of the Sakakini's General Assembly. His work: Anani is one of the most popular Palestinian artists working today, he has pioneered the use of local media: leather, natural dyes, paper-mache, and straw during the Intifada years. He also uses watercolor. Anani is a multi-talented artist, for he is a painter and a ceramist, a sculptor as well as an art teacher. |
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