Fatma Shanan

Fatma Shanan is a Druze painter from Israel.

Biography Fatma Shanan was born in 1986 and grew up in Julis, Israel. As a kid, she attended private art lessons due to the lack of art courses in her elementary school curriculum. She studied visual arts at the Oranim Academic College from 2007 to 2010. Afterwards, she studied in the studio of traditionalist Israeli artist Elie Shamir for a year.

Shanan is known for her figurative oil paintings of scenes of Druze villages and is inspired by 19th and 20th-century realism. Almost all of her paintings are derived from staged photographs, which utilize family and friends as models. Many of her pieces feature traditional Eastern carpets, which contrast with her Western landscapes. Zemack Contemporary Art, She has participated in many group exhibitions including ones at the Museum of Islamic Art in Jerusalem, Janco Dada Museum, Bloomfield Science Museum, The Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin, Fresh Paint art fair and Alfred Institute for Contemporary Art.

Collections Fatma Shanan's works are part of collection of Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Awards

2010 Prize for the Encouragement of Further Artistic Creation, The Art Institute, Oranim Academic College, Kiryat Tivon 2010 Excellency Award, The America-Israel Cultural Foundation 2013 Homebase Project artist's grant 2017 The Ministry of Culture award for the young artist