BASHAR ALHROUB was born in Jerusalem in 1978. He grew up in the West Bank in the village Kharas near Hebron. He has a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from An-Najah National University in Nablus, which he completed in 2001. In 2009, he was awarded a fellowship from the FORD Foundation to pursue an MFA, 2010 he got his MFA from Winchester School of Art- University of Southampton. Since then he has been living in Ramallah.
His work uses a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, installation, video and graffiti all within a conceptual frame that utilizes the Universal notions of place, humans attachment and relationship to one’s environment. He is grasping at the space between poetic and political.
Solo Exhibitions include “Reflective Consciousness”at Mosaic Room gallery in London 2010, "Horizon" at the A.M.Qattan Foundation in Ramallah in 2003, "Shrqiat" which was shown at the Alhlaj Gallery in Ramallah and the Peace Center in Bethlehem in 2005 and "Monologue" at the Almahatta Gallery in Ramallah which then traveled to Jerusalem, Nablus and Nazareth in 2009.
Alhroub participated in several group exhibitions, projects and festivals throughout Palestine and abroad including the UAE, Lebanon, Morocco, France, Oman, Algeria, Syria, Japan, France, Scotland, Norway, USA, and the UK. He took part in several Triangle Arts International Artists workshops, Shatana, Jordan with Makan Artist Space, Braziers Workshop in the UK, and was a founder and participant of the first ever International workshop in Palestine hosted by Almahatta Gallery.
He was the organizer and exhibition coordinator for the Abu Jehad Museum, which focuses on the Prisoners movement Affairs in Palestine. He is a founding member of Almahatta Gallery in Ramallah whose main goal is to reach a wider public audience for contemporary art in the area.
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