Current
The Road to Abstraction
Umm al-Fahm Art Gallery, Umm al-Fahm
1 June 2026 — 30 October 2026
Painter · Writer · Educator
Farid Abu Shakra
Painter, curator and educator from Umm al-Fahm — land, home and belonging.
“The landscape here is not a view. It is a question about home, and I keep drawing it until it answers.”
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Featured works
A selection from the studio archive.
Country’s Landscape 1
Mixed media on paper · 2008
The Road to Abstraction 9
Mixed media on paper · 2020
Embroidery Motif (Irq Al Hamam)
Mixed media on paper · 2022
County’s Landscape – Gaza Sky 3
Mixed media on paper · 2014
Dialogue with Walid Abu Shakra
Mixed media on paper · 2016
The Green Line
Mixed media on paper · 2019
Outwards and Inwards
Mixed media on paper · 2018
White Cat
Mixed media on paper · 2006
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Exhibitions
Upcoming
Country’s Landscape
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
12 November 2026 — 28 February 2027
Past
Embroidery Motifs
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
10 April 2024 — 25 August 2024
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Books & publications
Country’s Landscape
Monograph · 248 pp.
₪180
Land and Line
Essays · 164 pp.
₪145
Studio Notes
Artist book · 96 pp.
₪120
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Latest writing
Essay · 14 May 2026
Embroidery as a Language
On enlarging Palestinian embroidery motifs into painting, and what a stitch remembers.
Education · 2 March 2026
Teaching the Line
Notes from three decades of art education and what students taught the teacher.
Studio · 21 January 2026
The Colour of the Valley
How a single orange became the anchor of an entire palette.
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