Fayez Sirsawi was born in Gaza in 1961. He graduated from the sculpture department at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University In Istanbul in 1986. He worked teaching in the UNRWA schools in Gaza and in the UNRWA Women Training Center in Ramallah. He founded and supervised the visual art program at the YMCA in Gaza. Since 1994, he has been working at the Palestinian Ministry of Culture. He participated in several exhibitions in Palestine and abroad with his paintings and sculptures. He created a number of memorial monuments and murals in Gaza, Haifa, and China. Some of his works are part of international and local collections. Fayez Sirsawi lives and works in Gaza.