Khaled Hourani

Khaled Hourani is a Palestinian artist. He was the artistic director (2007-2010) and the director of the International Academy of Art - Palestine (2010 - 2013). He previously worked as the general director of the Fine Arts Department in the Palestinian Ministry of Culture (2004-2006).
Hourani participated in many local and international exhibitions, most recently Dispersed Crowds at Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah (2019), Occupational Hazards in Apexart gallery in New York, Picasso and Spanish exile in Toulouse (2018) a retrospective at Darat Al funun, Jordan (2017). The first retrospective exhibition was held at the CCA in Glasgow, Gallery One in Ramallah, the Times Museum and others. He participated in dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in 2012 in Berlin and in the Sharjah Biennial in 2011.
Hourani is the co-founder of the International Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah and the initiator of the 2011 Picasso in Palestine project and The Stone Distance to Jerusalem project. Hourani has curated and organized several exhibitions. He writes critically in the field of art and is an active member and founder of a number of cultural and art institutions. He was awarded the Creative Time Prize for Art and Social Change in New York City (2013).
In 2019, he published his book titled “In Search for Jamal Al-Mahamel”.