Born in Latroun, Palestine, in 1943, Nabil Anani is a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. Anani graduated in Fine Art from Alexandria University, Egypt, in 1969. On his return to Palestine, he began a career as an artist and a teacher-trainer at the UN College in Ramallah. Anani held his first exhibition in Jerusalem in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in solo and group shows locally, in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan. His works can be found in many museums and private collections.

Anani has pioneered the use of local media such as leather, henna, natural dyes, paper-mâché, wood beads and copper, and over the past four decades, has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique artworks.

Anani is also the co-author of a number of books on Palestinian arts and folklore. He was awarded the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 by Yasser Arafat. He became the head of the League of Palestinian Artists and played a key role in the establishment of the first International Academy of Fine Art in Palestine. In 2006, Anani was awarded the prestigious King Abdullah II Arab World Prize for Fine Art. He lives and works in Ramallah.

Anani’s work can be found in museums and international private and public collections, including The British Museum (London, UK), The Bodina Patterson Trust (CA, USA), TATE Modern (London, UK), Bunker Art Space Museum (Florida, USA), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris, France), Imago Mundi Collection (Treviso, Italy), Barjeel Art Foundation (Sharjah, UAE), Sharjah Art Museum (Sharjah, UAE), Guggenheim Museum (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation (Abu Dhabi, UAE), ADMAF Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation (Abu Dhabi, UAE), Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha, Qatar), Dar El-Nimer (Beirut, Lebanon), Jordan National Museum (Amman, Jordan), The Agha Khan Museum (Toronto, Canada), and The Palestine Museum US (CT, USA).

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