Ruba Salameh is a visual artist who was born in Nazareth in 1985. She obtained both B.A (2006-10) and M.F.A in Fine Arts at Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem (2012-2014). She works with a variety of mediums, including painting, video, and installation.
Through her work Ruba Salameh questions notions of land, geographies, displacement, nationalism, and in-between temporalities, in an attempt to contemplate various scenarios of daily life, which in many cases lead to a state of dystopia, using cynicism and irony as tools for political suspension points.
Recently, she has been working as a lecturer in the History of Art painting and practical classic painting at the Arab College in Haifa, in addition to conducting short-term workshops at Bezalel Academy. Ruba is currently working on a research film about the Palestinian cultural scene that appeared in Haifa in the last two years, and its complex relation to self-organization/autonomy and how it is operating within the constantly changing environment.
She participated in several exhibitions, including “Limitless” at The Walled Off Hotel, Bethlehem, 2019, curated by Rana Anani; Contemporary Arabesque, Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem, 2018; SRINAGAR BIENNALE, Basel, 2018; and “Ghost Dance” Group Exhibition curated by Fadwa Naamna, Haifa, 2017; Tensegrity, Dubai, 2020.