Palestine Contemporary art
Tamam Al-Akhal is a Palestinian artist and educator living in Jordan. She studied at the Fine Arts College in Cairo. From 1957 to 1960, she taught art at the Makassed Girls College in Beirut. In 1959, she married Ismail Shammout. Al-Akhal has exhibited in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, Jordan, the United States, Kuwait, England, China, Morocco, Berlin, Paris, Rome, and Vienna. She gave a series of lectures at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in 2009. Her art appeared on more than a dozen covers of Palestinian Affairs, a magazine published by the Palestine Liberation Organization. She was also head of the PLO's Arts and Heritage section. With her husband, she painted a series of large murals known as "Palestine: The Exodus and the Odyssey."
Lea Grundig was a German twentieth-century artist of Jewish descent. She is known as a graphic artist, illustrator, teacher, and professor at the World School of Fine Arts in Dresden.
Grundig addressed political and social themes in her graphic series created in Germany, including works devoted to exposing the Nazi regime. In 1936, the artist was arrested by the Nazis and her work was declared "degenerate art."
Grundig was president of the GDR Artists' Union. In 1972, she organized the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation to support the cultural, pedagogical and artistic achievements of students and graduates of the Kaspar-David Friedrich Institute at the University of Greifswald.
Sliman Mansour (also Suleiman or Suliman, Arabic: سليمان منصور), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important work as an artist and cultural practitioner before and after the Intifada.
Seth Price is a New York City-based multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He lives and works in New York City.
Seth Price is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art and Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York City, Galerie Chantal Crousal, Paris; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi and Capitain Petzel, Berlin. At a 2014 Christie's auction in New York, a golden, vacuum formed polystyrene piece by Price called Vintage Bomber (2006) sold for $785,000, sweeping past its high estimate of $70,000.