Kamal Boullata

Born Jerusalem, Palestine, 1942

After graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome, 1965, Boullata pursued his studies at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, 1968–71. In 1993 and 1994 he received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to research Islamic art in Morocco. His acrylics, silkscreens and livres d’artiste have been exhibited in the USA, France and the Middle East. Recently his work has been displayed at the Musée du Palais Carnoles and the Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Palais de l'Europe, Menton, the Musée du Chateau Dufresne, Montreal, and Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris. He is currently working on his design for the stained-glass windows of the church of Saints Peter and Paul in Potomac, Maryland, USA.

His research on Islamic and modern Arab art and culture has appeared in Muslim World, Mundus Artium, Cuadernos de la Alhambra and Peuples Méditerranéens. Pioneering studies he wrote on Palestinian art have been published in books, exhibition catalogues and academic journals including the Journal of Palestine Studies, Michigan Quarterly Review, Third Text, Mawaqef and the Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. In 2001 he received a Ford Foundation grant to continue his field research on post-Byzantine art and the foundations of Palestinian painting. He lives and works in France and the USA.