Shadi Alzaqzouq

Shadi Alzaqzouq (Arabic: شادي الزقزوق; born 1981), also known as Shadi Al-Zaqzouq, is a Libyan-born Palestinian visual artist, activist, and musician. His hyperrealist paintings focus on themes of evolution and land occupation. Alzaqzouq has lived in France since 2007.^[1]

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Shadi Alzaqzouq
شادي الزقزوق
Born	1981 (age 43–44) Benghazi, Libya
Other names	Shadi Al-Zaqzouq
Education	Palestine Technical College, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis (BFA)
Occupation(s)	Visual artist, activist, musician
Known for	Painting
Notable work	After the Wash

Early life and education

Shadi Alzaqzouq was born in 1981, in Benghazi, Libya.^[2] His parents immigrated to Libya from Jaffa, Palestine.^[3] The family moved in 1995 to Gaza in Palestine, after the 1995 Oslo II Accord.^[3]

He studied music at the Palestine Technical College in Deir al-Balah, where he graduated.^[3] He moved to Paris in 2007 to continued his studies in painting at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, where he graduated with a BFA degree in 2009.^[3]

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Career

He taught music for the next five years in a primary school in Gaza.^[3] In 2002, Alzaqzouq joined an artist collective known as Shababeek (Arabic: شبابيك, lit. 'windows'), in Gaza.^[3] He won the art residency award at the "International City of Arts" in Paris from the Abdul Mohsen Qattan Foundation and the French Consulate in 2006.^[4]

Alzaqzouq's work After the Wash was one of four works removed from the 2012 Art Dubai art fair for supporting the Arab Spring protests.^[5] The work in question was titled After the Wash, and is a circular canvas with an oil painting depicted a veiled girl with a bandana carrying underwear, that has a word in Arabic meaning "leave".^[5]^[6]

In 2015, Alzaqzouq was initially removed from Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition after he protested in support of the boycott of Israel and the three Israeli artists participating in the show, which included a former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) member.^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10] Afterwards he covered his artwork After Washing #3 with a bedsheet with the words "RIP Gaza: Boycott Israel" written on it, and laid down in front of the display during the Dismaland exhibition.^[9] Days later his artwork was returned to the exhibition.^[11]

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Early life and education

Career

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References

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