John Halaka Explained

John Halaka (born 1957) is an Egyptian-born American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and Professor of Visual Arts at the University of San Diego in California. He is considered an expert in painting, drawing, photography, documentary filmmaking, oral history, and modern and contemporary Palestinian art.

Education and publications

Halaka was born in El Mansoura, Egypt, in 1957.[1] His father was Palestinian and his mother was Lebanese. They moved to the United States in 1970.

He received his Master's of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Houston in Texas.[2]

He has taught at the University of San Diego since 1991.[3]

His writing has appeared in edited anthologies, art catalogues, and academic journals, most often Jadaliyya.[4] [5] [6] [7] He has also been interviewed for and profiled in journalistic and academic reports on contemporary Arab art.[8] [9]

Artistic works

Halaka's artwork has been exhibited in Michigan; California; Alaska; Washington, D.C.; Palestine; Spain; and the United Kingdom.[10] [11] He was featured in the inaugural exhibit of the Arab American National Museum.[12] [13] He also participated in the ongoing "I Witness Silwan" mural project in Batan al Hawa[14] [15] and contributed to the major exhibition (and subsequent book) The Map Is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths—Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish (2013).[16] [17] [18] [19]

He is past recipient of a Fulbright award to Lebanon, where he conducted oral history interviews among Palestinian refugees of multiple generations.[20] He was also awarded a U.S. Scholar fellowship from the Palestinian American Research Center for 2018–2019 for his project Vanishing Harvest: Meditations on the End of Palestinian Agriculture.[21]

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References

  1. Web site: John Halaka – Station Museum of Contemporary Art. 2022-01-23. en-US.
  2. Web site: Our Faculty: John Halaka. 2022-01-23. College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego. en.
  3. Book: Being Palestinian : personal reflections on Palestinian identity in the diaspora. 2016. Yasir Suleiman. 978-0-7486-3403-3. Edinburgh. 963672141.
  4. Book: Migration across boundaries : linking research to practice and experience. 2016. Routledge. Parvati Nair, Tendayi Bloom. 978-1-315-59529-0. London. 948602987.
  5. Web site: Halaka. John. 2016. Between Home and Homeland: Reflections on New Paintings from the series Eltifaf-Bypass by Rafat Asad. 2022-01-23. Jadaliyya - جدلية. en.
  6. Web site: Halaka. John. 2016. Meditations From The Shadows of History: Reflections on Paintings from the series "Shadow of the Shadow" by Bashar Khalaf. 2022-01-23. Jadaliyya - جدلية. en.
  7. Web site: Halaka. John. 2013. Ghosts of Comfort and Chaos. 2022-01-23. Jadaliyya - جدلية. en.
  8. Web site: إذاعة صوت فلسطين - جاليري 18/03/2017. 2022-01-23. vop.ps.
  9. Web site: Archive. Asia Art. New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. 2022-01-23. aaa.org.hk. en.
  10. Web site: 24 March 2014. Portraits of Denial & Desire, Photographs by John Halaka. 2022-01-23. Islamic Arts Magazine. en.
  11. Web site: Artist Lecture Series – John Halaka Nevada Arts Council. 2022-01-23. www.nvartscouncil.org.
  12. Web site: John Halaka. In/Visible. 2022-01-23. universes.art. en-US.
  13. Book: In/visible : contemporary art by Arab American artists : Yasser Aggour, Rheim Alkadhi, Doris Bittar, Abdelai Dahrouch, Mariam Ghani, John Halaka, Nabila Hilmi, Emily Jacir, Johammad O. Khalil, Amina Mansour, Sumayyah Samaha, Athir Shayota, Helen Zughaib, Afaf Zurayk. 2005. Arab American National Museum. Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, Arab American National Museum. 0-9767977-0-4. Dearborn, Michigan. 64140041.
  14. Web site: Proctor. Rebecca Anne. 30 July 2021. As Palestinian residents of Silwan face evictions, large public artwork protests - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East. 2022-01-23. www.al-monitor.com. en.
  15. News: Bishara. Hakim. 28 July 2021. Murals Watch Over Jerusalem Neighborhood, a Silent Protest Against Displacement. Hyperallergic. 23 January 2021.
  16. Web site: Painter. Dagmer. September 2013. The Map Is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths—Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish. 2022-01-23. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. 38–39. en-gb.
  17. Book: "The map is not the territory" : parallel paths--Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish : a touring art exhibition. 2015. Baksun Books. Jennifer Heath. 978-1-887997-32-4. Boulder, Colorado. 921870016.
  18. Web site: 2016. The Map Is Not The Territory: Parallel Paths — Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish – Arab American National Museum. 2022-01-23. en-US.
  19. Web site: ArtFacts. The Map is not the Territory Exhibition. 2022-01-23. ArtFacts. en.
  20. Web site: John Halaka (author page). 2022-01-23. Jadaliyya - جدلية. en.
  21. Web site: Professor John Halaka Selected as a PARC 2018-2019 U.S. Research Fellow - University of San Diego. 2022-01-23. www.sandiego.edu.

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