Hani Alqam

Hani Alqam was born in Amman in 1977. He holds a diploma from the Institute of Fine Arts in Amman (2001) and has attended painting and printmaking courses at Darat al-Funun's Summer Academy (2001) and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (1999 & 2001). Alqam has held five solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Europe, the U.K., Ireland, the U.S.A., Pakistan and Jordan. His work focuses on society, and the frailty and complexities of the human psyche. His paintings of Amman highlight the chaos and charm of the city's old cafés and neighborhoods Alqam lives and works in Amman.

"As an expressionist painter, I use my brush to portray the society around me, the human and his movements, and the person's memory. To me, ordinary faces play an important role in my thoughts; they provoke and instigate unknown things to me, and further they allow me to step into their mass where I try to see the world through their eyes in order to absorb and understand, better to satisfy my curious mind.

My thick paint and strokes are a compilation of stacked thoughts and desires unraveled and presented in such intensity; to me this leads to the subject matter,it's through reaching your high senses that a painting can be com...

2008 Art OMI International Artists Residency, New York , USA
2006 International Artists workshop , Ireland
2006 International Artists workshop (VASL) Pakistan
2005 Vermont Studio Center Residency ,New York , USA
2001 Attended a “Graphic Printing” course by American artist Lynne Allen, The national Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman
1999 & 2001 Participated in Darat al Funun’s Summer Academy by artist Marwan Kassab Bachi.
1994 - 1996 Diploma in Fine Arts, Center of Fine Arts Training, Ministry of Culture.
1999 - 2005 Supervisor and trainer at the workshop of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts. Print Making Studios.

Solo Exhibitions
2015 "Of Love and War" XOL Art Gallery , Baltimore , Washington , USA
2011 Nabad Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2007 Darat al Funun, The Khaled Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2006 Zara Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2004 The Gaz Mask, Spanish cultural Center, Amman, Jordan
2002 Characters , Zara Gallery , Amman , Jordan

Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 East to East On the occasion of 60 years of the cooperation between Jordan & Japan , by three artists from Japan & three artists from Jordan , Dar Al-Anda , Amman , Jordan
2014 ISIS Exhibition by nine Visual Artists , XOL Gallery , Washington , USA
2014 Bold Impressions , Nabad Gallery , Amman , Jordan
2013 Amman Art Week ,Nabad Gallery at The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts , Amman , Jordan
2013 Seventy Years of Contemporary Jordanian Art , The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts , Amman , Jordan
2012 Jordanian Graphic Artists , Orfali Gallery , Amman , Jordan
2012 Project cities visible + Instant Video at the National College of Montserrat , Córdoba , Argentina
2012 Trendsetting III , at NABAD Gallery, Amman , Jordan
2011 Sabha Project , Darat Al Funun, Amman , Jordan
2011 Group Exhibition , NABAD Gallery , Amman , Jordan
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