Shafik Radwan was born in the village of Najd in northern Gaza in 1941, which was destroyed and depopulated in the Nakba of 1948. He received his BA in graphic design from Helwan University in Cairo in 1959 and completed his PhD in art critique at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow in 1989.
Radwan’s solo and group exhibitions were held locally and internationally. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Baghdad Museum of Modern Art and the Moscow State Museum of Oriental Art. He taught art in Libya, Sudan, and Palestine and served as Director of the Fine Arts Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, Head of the Fine Arts Department at Derna University in Libya, and Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza.