In 9th of February 1968 I started my journey through life at Nazareth. I have studied computer science and I work as Software Developer, but my heart is where my art is. I started writing poetry in 1990, and doing art using the computer in 1994 and sometime combined both, in 1996 I had my first exhibition, and since then I exhibited my work in many galleries and museums. I went to Germany in March 2001, where I now live and work.
In 2006 I produced/directed my first documentary film ‘The Sons of Eilaboun’, which won the 2008 Al-Awda Award in Palestine, followed by the short fiction film ‘Just another day’ (2009), a film that deals with the Arabs in the Western world after September 11 attacks. In 2010/2011 I produced the short fiction ‘Before You is the Sea’, a film about the Middle East peace process in a form of a love story between a Jewish woman and a Palestinian man, in 2022 I finished a short animated film “Don’t Cry” that won 30 awards until this day. In 2023 I started composing music under the name Goddess Asherah Project, my Song ‘Hold My Hand’ was a finalist in the Apollo Global Music Awards (AGMA).
My art is a private perspective on life, private pains and disappointments, society, Death and a philosophical look at life. Death is the source for creation and the motor of life. Crucifixion a symbol for pain, pain caused by social, political and religious systems.
I think that art is another way to communicate, to express my ideas , for me art should have a message of a sort. This is the way I saw art when I was a little boy trying to express his Ideas with simple drawings, and this is the way I see art when working on my digital art or writing poetry today. Some times I ask myself, if we can reach people through "reason"! but I think its better to get to people's hearts through emotions, through ART, and from there we might get to their reason. Or maybe use extremes in art - and that is what I usually try - in order to make people think and ponder after their emotions become tens. Then their analyses might bring with it reasoning.
Solo Exhibitions
1997 - A Look Inside, Gallery Center, Nazareth, Israel
1999 - Life and Death, Art Gallery, Om El-Fahem, Israel
2006 - Perspectives of life, Kunst und Museum, Hollfeld, Germany
2013 In the search for..., Café Buch-Oase, Kassel, Germany
2013 An adventure through films and visual arts by Hisham Zreiq, Bibliotheek aan de Vliet, Rijswijk, Holland
Group Exhibitions
1996 - Opening Exhibition, West Galilee Art Gallery, Acre, Israel
1998 - Earth, Art Gallery, Om El-Fahem, Israel
1998 - Arabic calligraphy, the Land of Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1998 - Arabic Artists, Gallery Center, Nazareth, Israel
1999 - Arabic Artists, Art Gallery, Om El-Fahem, Israel
1999 - Arabic calligraphy, Bet-Hagfen Gallery, Haifa, Israel
1999 - MAC 21 INTERNATIONAL Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Center Sur, Malaga, Spain
2000 - The International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Recinto Ferial, Marbella, Spain
2000 - More than a Letter, Kage College Gallery, Bear-Sheva, Israel
2001 - The International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Recinto Ferial, Costa del Sol, Spain
2001 - Pixxelpoint 2001 - International Computer Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2002 - MAC 21International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Recinto Ferial, Costa del Sol, Spain
2002 - Pixxelpoint 2002 - International Computer Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2003 - MAC 21 International Contemporary Art Fair of Art Galleries, Marbella , Costa del Sol, Spain
2004 - 26th International Hollfeld Art Exhibition - Minimal Art, Hollfeld, Germany
2005 - After Hiroshima: Nuclear Imaginaries, Brunei Gallery, London, UK
2006 Utopias, Galerie Zukunftslabor, Stuttgart, Germany
2014 36th International Hollfeld Art Exhibition – Movement, Hollfeld, Germany
2014 Bridge to Palestine, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Bridge to Palestine, Mark Hachem Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2023 HUNTENKUNST 2023, Ulft, Netherlands
2024 Hope Art Festival, Turku, Finland
