Khalil Rabah

Khalil Rabah
خليل رباح
Born	1961 (age 63–64) Jerusalem
Other names	Khalil Rabach
Education	University of Texas at Arlington
Occupation(s)	Visual artist, curator, teacher
Known for	Installation art
Movement	Conceptual art, New Visions

Khalil Rabah (Arabic : خليل رباح; born 1961) is a Palestinian multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, and teacher. He is known for his conceptual installation artwork focused on rewriting history. Rabah lives in Ramallah, West Bank. ^{[1] [2]}

Life and career

Khalil Rabah was born in 1961, in Jerusalem. ^{[3] [4]} He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington. ^[5]

He is the founder of the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind project; a co-founder of the Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem; and a co-founder of the ArtSchool Palestine, London. ^{[6] [3]} Since 2005, Rabah has served as the director of the Riwaq Biennale in Ramallah. ^{[3] [7]}

Rabah taught at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design from 1997 to 2000; and at Birzeit University.

In 2002, he was awarded the LennonOno Grant for Peace. ^[8]

Exhibitions

• 1990 – I.D. Entity, University Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas ^[9]
• 1996 – Converging Cultures, group exhibition, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S. ^[10]
• 1998 – Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; curated by Jonathan Watkins ^[9]
• 2004 – Plug In, group exhibition, Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic ^[11]
• 2005 – What Keeps Mankind Alive?, 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey ^[11]
• 2008 – 5th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• 2009 – Tarjama / Translation: Contemporary Art from Middle East, Central Asia and its Diasporas, traveling group exhibition, Queens Museum, Queens, New York City; commissioned by ArteEast, curated by Leeza Ahmady
• 2010 – Tarjama / Translation, traveling group exhibition, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York ^[12]
• 2011 – Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; curated by Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti, and Haig Aivazian ^[3]
• 2017 – Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; curated by Christine Tohmé ^[3]

See also

• Contemporary Palestinian art

References

1. "Rabah, Khalil". Le Delarge, Le dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains. Retrieved March 23, 2025.
2. "Uncharted Territories". The Boston Globe . April 9, 2006. p. 38. Retrieved March 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
3. "Khalil Rabah". Sharjah Art. Archived from the original on January 14, 2018.
4. Amirsadeghi, Hossein; Mikdadi, Salwa; Shabout, Nada M. (2009). New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. Thames & Hudson. p. 242. ISBN   978-0-500-97698-2.
5. Ahmed, Sara; Castada, Claudia; Fortier, Anne-Marie; Sheller, Mimi (August 5, 2020). Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration. Routledge. p. 76. ISBN   978-1-000-18511-9.
6. "Le musée imaginaire de Khalil Rabah". Le Devoir (in French). February 23, 2013. p. 42. Retrieved March 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
7. "Ramallah attracts a crowd". The Gazette. July 3, 2010. p. 91. Retrieved March 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
8. "Yoko Ono Initiates New Peace Prize for Lennon". The Grand Island Independent. October 10, 2002. p. 22. Retrieved March 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
9. Watkins, Jonathan (1998). Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney. Biennale of Sydney Limited. p. 272. ISBN   978-0-7313-8924-7.
10. "Speaking Out, Converging Cultures, Building Bridges". LA Weekly . August 15, 1996. p. 132. Retrieved March 24, 2025– via Newspapers.com.
11. "Khalil Rabah". Fine Arts Archive (ABArt).
12. Cotter, Holland; Johnson, Ken; Rosenberg, Karen (August 13, 2009). "'Tarjama/Translation' at Queens Museum of Art; Kal Spelletich and Craig Baldwin at Jack Hanley; 'The Figure and Dr. Freud' at Haunch of Venison; and 'Self-Portraits' at Skarstedt". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331.