Qais Assali is an interdisciplinary artist/designer born in Palestine in 1987 and raised in the United Arab Emirates before returning to Palestine in 2000. He is a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Assali taught in visual communication at Al-Ummah University College, Jerusalem, and at An-Najah National University, Nablus. He was a 2018-19 Visiting Assistant Professor for the Critical Race Studies Program at Michigan State University. Assali holds four degrees in visual arts from Palestine and the US, a BFA in Graphic Design from An-Najah National University 2009, and a BA in Contemporary Visual Art from the International Academy of Art Palestine 2017. He simultaneously completed an MFA in Photography from Bard College, New York 2019, and an MA in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 2018.
Image: Qais Assali, if you Like you can show my works in galleries. Inkjet print on architectural bond paper, acrylic on canvas, 17:32 minute video, archival material, ink on sketching paper. In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York, 2020.
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