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Amer Shomali
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27-11-2024
Amer Shomali is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist who uses painting, films, digital media, installations and comics as tools to explore and interact with the sociopolitical scene in Palestine. Much of Shomali’s work examines the creation and the use of the Palestinian revolution’s iconography.
His art works are part of several collections: the British Museum, the Arab World Institute, the Barjeel Art Foundation, the Samawi Collection, the Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence (MoMRtA), the Birzeit University Museum and the Al-Qattan Foundation, as well as the private collections of Dr. Ramzi Dalloul, Ms. Rana Sadik, Mr. Hashim Shawa, Mr. Rami Nimer and Mr. George Al Ama.
Shomali co-directed an award-winning animated documentary, “The Wanted 18”, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014. The film was awarded the best documentary award in the Abu Dhabi, Carthage, Traverse City and Al-Jazeera film festivals. “The Wanted 18” was in the official submission lists for the foreign language and documentary categories of the 88th Academy Awards.
Born in Kuwait in 1981, Shomali holds a BSc in Architecture from Birzeit University in Palestine and a master’s degree in Animation from Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. He is currently based in Ramallah, Palestine, and teaches at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design at Birzeit University.
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