Artists
Hroub Bashar
Born in Jerusalem, 1978. In 2001, he gained a BA in Fine Art from Al-Najah National University in Nablus. In 2009, he was awarded a fellowship from the Ford Foundation to pursue an MFA at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.
Hroub participated in several group exhibitions, projects and festivals throughout Palestine and abroad. He is a founding member of Al-Mahatta Gallery in Ramallah, which aims to reach a wider audience for contemporary art in the area.
His work uses a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, installation, video and graffiti, all within a conceptual framework encompassing universal notions of place, human attachment and the relationship to one’s environment. His work is particularly focused on the search for the space between the poetical and the political.