Zohdy Qardy

Zohdy Qadry (; born in 1972) is a Palestinian painter. His work is abstract, and thematically linked to Palestinian history.

Biography Zohdy Qadry was born in 1972 in Nahf, in the Western Galilee. He studied at Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy (now Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design) in St. Petersburg, Russia in the 1990s, where he also completed a master's degree in wall paintings. He worked in St. Petersburg for several years and returned home in 2004.

Qadry's work relates directly to Palestinian history and he is considered as a plastic artist who brings Palestinians' socio-historical issues into the art field, via modern and simple painting.

The infrastructure of Qadry's plastic art was made by pairing the Palestinian experience with the Russian art legacy as practiced at the Mochina institute. Some viewed Qadry's work as modernist formalism with a hidden political essence that blocks any connection to the real world and presents the viewer with a closed world. Others critiqued the way Qadry's works hangs in main space of the gallery and connects the paintings hanging on it to one unit and this formation "form connected with the history of painting to ideas of disrupting the present order, but here, the diagonal plaster wall does not disturb order but rather sets it up."

Qadryhimself declared when he released "Non-Subject" series: "As a painter, I strive to formulate numerous questions – and answers – as part of the format of painting, rather than cling to artistic or social laws and values intended to dominate me and dictate my fate." However, by his works it seems able to express Palestinian's socio-historical tragedy through visualization via its technique, material and in an abstract geometrical language.

Solo exhibitions 2009–2014, Tova Osman Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2009, Beit HaGefen, Haifa 2009, The Russian Cultural Center, Tel Aviv 2005, Parry Gallery, St. Petersburg

Group exhibitions 2016, "Take Painting", Petah Tikva Museum of Contemporary Art, Petah Tikva 2016, "Geometric Melody", N & N Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv-Yafo 2013, "The Mediterranean Biennale", Sakhneen 2012, " Memory of Immigration", Art Gallery, Umel-Fahem 2011, " Ceramic Biennale", Art Gallery, Umel-Fahem 2009, "Mahmoud Darwish", Al-Ma-hatta, Ramallah 2008, "Correspondence", L.A. Mayer Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem 2005, "In Living Colour", Dubai 2003, "From the Avant-garde to the Present Day", The Union of Saint Petersburg Artists 2001, "Fall Exhibition", The Union of Saint Petersburg Artists