Tayseer Barakat
Jabalia Camp/Gaza,
Palestine
(1959 - )
Barakat
was born in Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza in 1959. He studied fine arts at
the Alexandria University. He held personal exhibits in Jerusalem and
Ramallah, and participated in a number of group exhibits in Jerusalem,
Israel, Gaza City, the United States, and Morocco. He participated in the
1996 Sao Polo Biennial and in the French Palestinian Spring Exhibit at the
Paris Institut du Monde Arabe. Barakat is a member of the “New Vision”
artists group that pioneered in the 1980's the use of local media such as
straw, clay, henna, leather, etc. in works of art. He is also a founding
member of the Jerusalem Wasiti Art Center. In 1998 he founded the Ziryab
Café/Art gallery in Ramallah.
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