Curriculum Vitae

London, UK 

(malakmattar47@gmail.com) 

Curriculum Vitae 

A visual artist and published author who paints expressionist faces, figures, and semi-abstract designs drawn from her own experiences and at the age of 14, Matar started painting using school art supplies during the 51-day-long military assault on Gaza in 2014. Her artwork began to draw interest from galleries and museums around the world and, since that time, her paintings have been featured in individual and group exhibitions in Costa Rica, France, Great Britain, India, Palestine, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, and across the USA. She is also the author and illustrator of Sitti’s Bird (2022), a children’s book based on her own life story. Malak is currently in the middle of a Masters of Fine Art (MFA) at Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Her artwork Prematurely Stolen has been acquired by the British Museum and important private and public collections.

Education 

M.F.A, Fine Art with distinction, Central Saint Martin, London, UK (September 2023) 

B.A., Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey (June 2022) High School Diploma, Bashir Al-Rayes High School, Gaza, Palestine (June 2017), GPA: 4.0 Award for scoring the highest grade-point average in Gaza and the second highest in Palestine (2017) 

Awards

Mona Hatoum Foundation Bursaries- Central Saint Martins 

Exhibitions 

2025

Solo exhibition, Falasteen, Central Saint Martins, London, UK.

Solo exhibition, Festival of Palestine Culture, Dorset, UK.

Group exhibition, Inodyssey, Campbell Works gallery, London, UK

Group exhibition, Rise Habibi, The Crypt Gallery, Shubbak Festival, London, UK.

Artist Talk, Culture in Crisis, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

2024 

Solo exhibition, Galway CartoonFestival, Galway, Ireland. 

Solo exhibition Last Breath, Cromwell Place, London, UK 

Solo exhibition CUTS, RichMix as part of AWAN Festival, London, UK 

Solo exhibition The Horse Fell Off the Poem, Ferruzzi Gallery during the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Solo exhibition Screams, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 

Solo exhibition Screams, The Summerhall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 

Group exhibition, Goldsmiths Art School, London, UK 

Group exhibition, Central Saint Martins, London, UK 

Group exhibition We Are Not Numbers, P21, London, UK  

Group exhibition, I will Write Our Will Above The Clouds, London, Uk

Solo exhibition, Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

Solo exhibition, No Words, Peoples Forum, Manhattan, New York, USA.

Solo exhibition, CUTS, Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha, Qatar. 

2023 

Solo exhibition, Garden Court Chambers, London, UK 

Group exhibition, The Capital, New York, USA 

Group exhibition, Aupuni Space gallery, Hawaii, USA 

Group exhibition, Millon, Paris, France

2022 

Solo exhibition, MU.SA (Museu das Artes de Sintra), Portugal 

Solo exhibition, Museo della Città, Rimini, Italy 

Solo exhibition, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome, Italy 

Solo exhibition, Omar Suleiman Cultural Centre, Naples, Italy 

Solo exhibition, Teatri di Vita, Bologna, Italy 

Solo exhibition, Artemisia Gallery, Padua, Italy 

Solo exhibition, Barchessa di Villa Concina (Dolo), Venice, Italy 

Solo exhibition, Barchessa di Villa Belvedere (Mirano), Venice, Italy 

Group exhibition, Boughton House as part of Greenbelt Festival, Northamptonshire, UK Mural Through a Palestinian Lens commissioned by The Bristol Palestine Film Festival, Bristol, UK Art auction organised by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), New York, USA Display and auction of Palestinian Family  at Christie’s Auction House, London, UK 

2021 

Solo virtual exhibition and lecture, Museum of the Palestinian People, Washington DC, USA Solo virtual exhibition, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 

Group exhibition, ArtPrize USA, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA 

Group exhibition, P21 Gallery, London, UK 

Auction and group exhibition, AlBahie Auction House, Doha, Qatar 

Lecture, Yale Art School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 

Lecture, Art and Design Academy, Eindhoven, Netherlands 

Lecture, Institute of Democracy and Education, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 

Six-month virtual workshop with immigrants, in collaboration with the University of Stirling, Stirlingshire, UK 

2020 

Solo exhibition The Eyes of Women, Cultural House, Freiburg, Germany 

Group exhibition, Museum of the Palestinian People, Washington DC, USA 

Group exhibition, Palestine Museum US, Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA 

Group exhibition Post Colonization, Eindhoven, Netherlands 

Three-week speaking tour in the Northeastern USA, with presentations on seven college campuses (Merrimack College, Smith College, Yale University, Southern Connecticut State University, Manhattan College, Drew University, UMass Boston) and at several community events in Washington DC, New York City, Haverhill and Ipswich, Massachusetts 

Original artwork My Skin Is Not a Sin (2020) selected by the United Nations to represent the issue of inequality 

2019 

Solo exhibition, Palestine Museum, US, Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA 

Solo exhibition, Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington DC, USA 

Solo exhibition, The Cultural Center on Columbus Avenue, New York City, NY, USA Group exhibition, TAC Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands 

Group exhibition, Red Rock Chateau, Silverado, California, USA 

Exhibition and reading tour of nine cities in Switzerland and Germany for We Are Not Numbers

Group exhibition, PalExpo, London, UK 

Various exhibition tours for primary school students in Gaza, India, and the USA 

2018 

Solo exhibition, Greenbelt Annual Festival, London, UK 

Solo exhibition, Palestine Museum for Culture and Art, Bristol, UK 

Solo exhibition, Embassy of Palestine, Stockholm, Sweden 

Group exhibition, OXO Design Centre in Southbank, London, UK 

Group exhibition, The Green Room, London, UK 

Group exhibition organised by Women in War, Fontenay sous-Bois Museum, France Group exhibition, Médiathèque de Malakoff, France 

Group exhibition, Town Hall of Paris, France 

Group exhibition, Guray Museum, Cappadocia, Turkey 

Group exhibition, Inegol Kent Museum, Bursa, Turkey 

Group exhibition, Palestine Expo Annual Festival, London, UK 

Group exhibition, University of California, San Diego, California, USA 

Group exhibition, Cultural Center of California, USA 

Group exhibition, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA Group exhibition, Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz, California, USA Group exhibition, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena, California, USA Santa Monica Pier Art Festival, Santa Monica, California, USA 

Group exhibition, PalExpo, London, UK 

Group Exhibition, ArtPrize USA, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA 

Four exhibitions in Sacramento, California, USA 

2017 

Solo exhibition, Palestine Museum for Culture and Art, Bristol, UK 

Group exhibition organised by the Rebuilding Alliance, US Capitol Building, Washington DC, USA Group exhibition as part of a conference on Gaza and Art in Palestine, University of North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina, USA 

2016 

Group exhibition sponsored by the American Consulate, Ambassador Hotel, Jerusalem Solo exhibition organised by La Red de Solidaridad con Palestina, UNED Center, Costa Rica Solo exhibition organised by Gaza Tierra y Libertad, Museum of Extremadura, Extremadura, Spain Group exhibitions GAZA51, Hyderabad, Lamakaan, Chena, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Delhi, India 

2015 

Solo exhibition, University of Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica 

Solo exhibition Boats in Journalists House, Gaza, Palestine 

Solo exhibition, the Cultural Center of Popular Front, Gaza, Palestine 

Solo exhibition, European Representative Organization for Culture, Gaza, Palestine Group exhibition organised by the Institution of Palestinian Women, Adam Hotel, Gaza, Palestine Group exhibition, Al-Qattan Institution for Art and Culture, Gaza, Palestine