Bashar Alhroub

 


Born in Jerusalem in 1978 and grew up in Hebron, currently living and working in Ramallah.


Alhroub graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Al-Najah National University, Palestine in 2001. He was awarded the Ford Foundation fellowship to pursue an MFA, which he completed in 2010 from the Winchester School of Art, the University of Southampton in the UK. In 2012, Alhroub was awarded the first grand prize at the 14th Art Asian Biennial, Bangladesh.


In 2020, Alhroub was one of 33 artists who participated in a recent exhibition at A.M. Qattan Foundation on Palestinian flora and colonialism, entitles Weed Control, exploring the relationship between the seed and the earth and its symbolism in the struggle for survival between the colonizer and the colonized. His current current solo exhibition at Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah is titled Silent Garden.