Jawad Al MALHI (Jerusalem - Palestine, 1969).

Lives and works on the border of the Shufat refugee camp (East Jerusalem) where he co-founded the Open Studio Palestine, a project of art workshops with children.

He received his MA in Fine Art from the Winchester School of Art, UK. He works across painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video. A keen observer of the human condition, Jawad's recent works explore human nature and the architecture and geography of marginality. Over the years, his work has focused on exploring communities and their relationships with their environment, local knowledge and daily practices.

He has gone on to have numerous solo and group exhibitions in Palestine, Jordan, Japan, Europe and the US. The most recent of which include: Is There a Place for Me? Inn? (2017), House No. 197 (2017), Measures of Uncertainty (2014). Among the group exhibitions: In the Middle of the Middle (Beirut, 2008), No Man's Land? (Gemak, The Hague, 2008), Provisions for the Future (Sharjah Biennale, 2009), Palestine c/o Venice (Venice Biennale, 2009), Helenski Photography Bienele, Worldly House, (Documenta 13, 2012), NSK Pavillion (Venice Biennale, 2017), Subcontracting Nations (AM Qattan Foundation, 2018), The Lasting Effect (2018), Intimate Terrains, (The Palestinian Museum, 2019). He has also received the Accenture Residency Award at Townhouse Gallery Cairo (2011) and IASPIS, Stockholm (2017). His work is held in private and public collections in Europe and the Middle East, including the British Museum, Imperial War Museum (UK), Barjeel (UAE), and Centre Pompidou (France).

In 2009, he was selected for the Frieze Foundation Cartier Prize and the Pictet Prize.