Name: Mahmoud al-Haj

Hajj is a visual artist and instructor. He holds a BA in media and journalism from al-Aqsa University (2012). He has worked as a visual arts teacher at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society since 2017. In 2019, al-Hajj collaborated with Dutch artist Suzanne Groothuis on a land art workshop commissioned by the Palestinian Museum. He has exhibited widely in Palestine, Europe and the United States, including recently in the Art in Isolation exhibition at the Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. (2020); Within the Vacuum at Shababeek for Contemporary Art in Palestine (2019); Contemplative Contrasts at the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Palestine (2019); and Orient 2.0 at Pulchri Studio Den Hague, the Netherlands (2017).