Mohammad Al Jaloos

Mohammad Al Jaloos is a Jordanian-Palestinian visual artist born in Amman in 1960. His family was originally displaced from the village of Qazaza near Ramla during the 1948 Nakba. He studied painting at the Institute of Fine Arts in Amman and earned a BA in Business Administration from the University of Jordan in 1982. Al Jaloos is known for his expressive and often socially reflective artworks. He has exhibited widely across the Arab world and Europe, and won the Gold Medal at the Tehran Biennale in 2003. His work has been featured in major group exhibitions, including the International Cairo Biennale and the Imago Mundi project in Venice.