Rana Bishara

254 E. 10th Street. Apt # 4a
NYC, NY 10009
rana_bishara@hotmail.com
Phone: 646-319-8597
Born and raised in Tarsheha Town 1971, Galilee northern part of Palestine, recently living and working in the USA.


Education
2004- MFA Painting, Savannah Collage of Art and Design, Savannah G.A U.S.A.
1993- BFA Painting, Women studies and philosophy minor, Haifa University, Israel.

Awards and Residencies
2004 - Xanadu artist in residency, Xanadu Gallery, New York, USA.
2001 - Fulbright Scholarship, MFA Painting, Savannah College of Art And Design.
1999 - Darat Al-Funun Summer Academy, Amman, Jordan.
1997 - Art & Dialogue Arab Mediterranean Artist Residence, Rabat, Morocco.
1996 - Artist in residence, Aarau Switzerland sponsored by: ProHelvetia & Gastatelier Krone, Switzerland.
1996 - Art Omi International Artist’s Colony, artist in residency program, upstate New York, USA.
1994 - Construction in Process, The Artist Museum, Negev, Israel

Solo Exhibitions
2004 - Bergen Hall Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah GA, USA.
2000 - Art & Craft Village Gaza city, Palestine.
1999 - Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah City, Palestine.
1999 - Nazareth Cultural center, Nazareth City, Palestine/Israel.
1996 - Rathhaus, Aarau city, Switzerland.
1996 - Jules Gloor Gallery, Aarau city, Switzerland.
1993 - First Solo Exhibition, Nazareth City, Palestine/Israel.

Ras Al-Hanut Group Exhibitions
Ras El-Hanut is a Mediterranean Artist Group established in 1993 in Morocco
And Spain.
1999 - The Tatwan City Gallery, Morocco.
1998 - La Croix Gallery /Institute Francis, Tangiers, Morocco.
1998 - Galleria Cultures S.L, Santander, Spain.
1998 - Bab El- Rwah National Gallery, Rabat, Morocco.

Group Exhibitions
2003 - Made in Palestine, Station art museum, Houston TX, USA.
2003 - West Savannah West Bank, Savannah GA, USA.
2002 – Williamsburg Bridges Palesine, Williamsburg Art & Historic Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
2002 - Viva la Cabaret! Art during wartime, Atlanta G.A, USA.
2002 - The Bridge, Graduate painting student, Chinese painting
2001 - Entity, Palestinian Women artist, Nazareth Cultural Center Palestine/Israel.
2002 - Palestinian Artist Today, WUK Projektraum Vienna, Austria.
2000 - Art & Craft Village Gaza city, Palestine.
1999 - Palestinian Artist Today, Drammens Museum for Kunst OG Kulturhistorie, Norway.
1999 - Darat Al-Funun Gallery, Amman, Jordan.
1999 - Gateway, The National Gallery of fine Arts, Amman, Jordan.
1999 - 50 Years of Creativity, Nazareth Cultural Center, Palestine.
1998 - Palestine (a), women Artist shows, Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel
1998 - Ami Stienetz Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
1998 - Om Al-Fahim City Gallery, Palestine.
1998 - Royal Academy of Art” Palestinian Art”, Stockholm, Sweden.
1998 - Home, Anadeel Gallery Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel.
1997 - Art & Dialogue, Arab Mediterranean Artist”, Rabat Morocco.
1997 -‘The Scream of the Wadi’, Outdoors Installation, Haifa City, Palestine/Israel.
1996 - Art Omi International Arts Center, upstate New York, USA.
1995 - The Artist Museum, Lodz’, Poland.
1995 - Kawkab Abu-Elheja Sculpture Garden Galilee, Palestine/Israel.
1994 - Construction in Process “The Artist Museum” Megev, Israel.
1994 - From Galilee to Jerusalem, Al-Wasiti Art Center, Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel.
1995- 6 Wohin? , One year touring exhibition in Germany Cities, Muenster, Telgte, Kassel, Oldenberg, Duesseldorf Fellbach and Cologne.

Publications and Catalogs
- Made in Palestine, group show catalogue, The Station, Houston TX, USA, 2003.
- Breaking the Veils, Women Artist from the Islamic world’, Amman, Jordan, 2003.
- The Year 2001 Award for young Palestinian Artist Catalogue, Al Katan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine 2001.
- 6+2 Young Artist, Art & Craft Village Gaza city, Palestine, 2000.
- Solo Exhibition Catalog” The Voyage of the Returnees”, 2000.
- Palestinian Artist Today by Oystein Loge& Aissa Deebi, Drammens Museum, Norway, 1999.
- Gateway, The National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan, 1999.
- Palestinian Art by Ulf Thomas Moberg, Stockholm, 1998.
- Children’s Book, illustration, The Mother’s Day, Haifa, 1999.
- Art Omi International Arts Center, 1996 artist’s in residency catalogue, New York, U.S.A.

Selected Collections
The National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan.
Art Omi International Arts Center, New York, USA.
Darat Al-Funun, Abd El-hameed Shouman foundation, Amman, Jordan.
The Savannah Collage of Art and Design, Savannah GA, USA.
Ms. & Mr. Qupty’s Private collection of contemporary Palestinian Art, Jerusalem, Palestine/Israel.
Pamela and Ramsey Khalidi’s Private collection, Savannah GA, USA.

Rana Bishara was born and raised in Tarsheha in northern Palestine in 1971. She has been living and working in the U.S.A since 2001.
Bishara uses installation, drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking to express her personal political statement.
Bishara earned her Bachelor degree in painting and a Minor degree in women studies and philosophy from Haifa University, in Israel. She also holds a Masters in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah G.A, U.S.A, as a Fulbright Scholar.
Her artwork has been shown in important solo and group shows nationally and internationally. She has exhibited in Palestine, Switzerland, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, Austria, United States of America, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Poland and Germany.
Bishara is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, and has taken part in several artist-in-residency programs. These programs include the Xanadu* Residency Program (NYC), Darat Al-Funun Summer Academy (Jordan) Pro-Helvetia (Switzerland) and Art Omi International Arts Center (New York).
Her installation artwork Blindfolded History is currently on display in Begren Hall Gallery, in the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. The installation is also featured in the group show, Made in Palestine.