Nabil Anani is one of the most popular Palestinian artists working today, he has pioneered the use of local media: leather, natural dyes, papier-mache, and straw during the Intifada years. He held his seventh exhibit at the Sakakini in December 1996. He was awarded in 1997 the first Palestine Prize for Visual Arts.
Born in Imwas, Latroun, in 1943, Anani was raised in Halhoul, and graduated in photography from the Fine Arts College of Alexandria in 1969. Anani is a multi-talented artist, for he is a painter and a ceramist, a sculptor as well as an art teacher. Anani's first exhibit was in 1972, and he has participated in about 20 group exhibitions in Palestine, various Israeli cities, Amman, Cairo, Assilah, Naples, London, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Washington, Bonn, Madrid, etc.. In addition, he has authored a number of art books and was a founding member of the "New Visions" artists group in 1987, and of the Jerusalem Al Wasiti Center in 1994. He was elected in 1998 as the head of the Palestinian Artists’ Society, and is a member of the Sakakini's General Assembly.
He also participated in a Palestinian art group exhibit at Norway's Drammens Museum in August 1999.
 

From the exhibit