Abed Abdi is a Palestinian painter from Haifa, his exhibit opened on October 1996, for three weeks. He held an exhibit at the Sakakini in the October 1996. The exhibit marks a shift in Abdi's works, away from figurative works, towards the abstract.

Abderrahmane Abdi was born in Haifa in 1942. He belongs to the generation of post 1948 pioneering visual artists, and is considered the most influential Arab Israeli artist working today. He held his first exhibit in Tel Aviv in 1962, and graduated from the Dresden fine arts academy in 1972, where he studied graphics and mural painting, and obtained the second prize. He worked after his graduation as a graphic designer for a number of Arabic language publications. The city of Haifa awarded him the Artist of the year Herman Struck award in 1972. That year, he also obtained the Young Artist's Award at the Berlin International youth festival in 1972.

He was commissioned to erect a sculpture to commemorate the Land Day massacre He also completed the memorial sculpture in the Galilean municipality of Shefa Amer in 1984. In addition, he has painted a number of murals in Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa.

He has had 12 personal exhibitions in Qatar, Israel, Belgium, and Bulgaria. He has also participated in over 40 group exhibits, among them a joint Palestinian and Israeli exhibit that toured American and German cities in the years 1988 - 1990. He also participated in a group exhibit of Palestinian and Israeli artists in Germany in 1995 - 1996. He also participated in a number of exhibits with Palestinian artists in Tokyo, Athens, Brussels, and Berlin. He is a member of the Ibdaa' society for the promotion of visual arts in the Arab Israeli sector. He has been teaching fine arts since 1985 at he Arab education college of Israel.

From the exhibit