Khalil Rabah (; born 1961) is a Palestinian multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, and teacher. He is known for his conceptual installation artwork focused on rewriting history. Rabah lives in Ramallah, West Bank.
Life and career Khalil Rabah was born in 1961, in Jerusalem. He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington.
He is the founder of the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind project; a co-founder of the Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem; and a co-founder of the ArtSchool Palestine, London. Since 2005, Rabah has served as the director of the Riwaq Biennale in Ramallah.
Rabah taught at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design from 1997 to 2000; and at Birzeit University.
In 2002, he was awarded the LennonOno Grant for Peace.
Exhibitions
1990 – I.D. Entity, University Gallery, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 1996 – Converging Cultures, group exhibition, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, U.S. 1998 – Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; curated by Jonathan Watkins 2004 – Plug In, group exhibition, Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic 2005 – What Keeps Mankind Alive?, 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey 2008 – 5th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom 2009 – Tarjama / Translation: Contemporary Art from Middle East, Central Asia and its Diasporas, traveling group exhibition, Queens Museum, Queens, New York City; commissioned by ArteEast, curated by Leeza Ahmady 2010 – Tarjama / Translation, traveling group exhibition, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York 2011 – Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; curated by Suzanne Cotter, Rasha Salti, and Haig Aivazian 2017 – Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; curated by Christine Tohmé
See also
Contemporary Palestinian art
References