(b. 1979, Hebron, Palestine) Wafa Hourani studied experimental cinema in Tunisia. He works with a variety of media including film, photography, installation, sculpture, performance, music, and poetry. He lives and works between Palestine and Bahrain. 

Hourani made several videos in his home city of Ramallah: Yousef, 11 Sep Jenin, Curfew, and Poster. His Future Cities series project Qalandia 2047 – 2067 – 2087 was exhibited at the Thessaloniki Biennale (2007), Sfeir Semler Gallery, Beirut (2008), Saatchi Gallery, London, the Istanbul Biennale, Disorientation 2 in Abu Dhabi (2009), Haus der Kunst, Munich, The Silk Road, Lille (2010), as well as The New Museum, New York (2014). His first solo show Newton’s Fourth Law was exhibited Al-Mamal for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem. In 2012, he presented his works in the Voicing Resistance festival – Ballhaus, Berlin, the Arrival and Departure, Ancona, Italy, Newtopia, Mechelen, Qalandiya International, Jerusalem, Encounter, Doha and the European Capital of Culture program, Guimaraes. 

Hourani exhibited at the White Box, New York, and at the Weatherspoon Museum, North Carolina in 2014. He was invited to lead the project Orientamenti and to speak in the symposium, the Sienna Art Institute promoted both events.

In 2019 he was part of the exhibition Popular Culture and the City at Manarat Al Saadiyat as part of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection.