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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Khalil Rayan (Hebrew: חליל ריאן), (born in Damoun 1946-), is a Palestinian plastic artist from the Arabs of 1948. He is one of the first plastic artists in the Palestinian interior. His works focus on drawing, sculpture, bronze representation, and Arabic calligraphy. He has hundreds of paintings and artworks, And dozens of private and joint exhibitions.
He was born in the abandoned village of Damoun, Acre district, in 1946, and after his family moved between neighboring villages, they settled after months of displacement in the city of Tamra.
its beginning
He studied art at the beginning of his way in Beit Karma in Haifa in 1964.
He moved to Jerusalem in 1967 to continue studying art at the Bezalel College of Art, where he met artist Suleiman Mansour, who studies art at the same college.
Khalil Rayan completed his 1972 study. He worked as a mentor in various cultural centers in Jerusalem and at the Israel Museum. He worked as a teaching assistant at the Sculpture Department in Bezalel for 3 years.
Exhibitions
1965 Participated in the "House of Karma" exhibition and won the Haifa Prize. As a result of this exhibition, he won a scholarship worth the annual premium for the first year of study in Bezalel.
1968 Participated in the annual exhibition at Bezalel College, where his works remained on display for 3 years.
1972 Solo exhibition in Beit Al Karma (Haifa), after which he accepted a member of the Association of Israeli Painters and Sculptors.
1978 An iron statue was made in the "Shuafat" school by the Jerusalem municipality.
1978 A cement mural was erected at the entrance to the public library in Tamra during the time of the council's president, Zaki Diab.
1985 Group exhibition at "Billy Hall" in East Jerusalem.
1990 Group exhibition in the V Tower building - Tel Aviv.
1991 Collective exhibition in the "Heyotzer" house - Haifa - where the artist lost his bronze sculpture representing five bathrooms.
1992 Group exhibition in Y.M.C.A building - Gaza.
1994 Group exhibition in "Negler's House" - Kiryat Haim -.
1994 Group exhibition at Al-Wasiti Art Center, from Galilee to Jerusalem - Jerusalem -.
1994 Solo exhibition in the Goldstein family home - Haifa-.
1995 Group exhibition at Al-Wasiti Art Center, from Galilee to Jerusalem - Jerusalem -.
1995 Solo exhibition at Nagler House - Kiryat Haim.
1995 Group exhibition in Rothschild House - Haifa -.
1995 Group exhibition at the house of Israeli artists "Chagall" - Haifa - where the artist lost his bronze sculpture.
1995 A statue was made of reinforced concrete at the Planet Sculpture Festival in the Galilee.
1996 Joint exhibition in Umm al-Fahm Gallery.
1996 Solo exhibition in the community center - Tarshiha -.
1997 Group exhibition in the house of Engineer Baran - Jerusalem -.
1998 Group exhibition at Umm El Fahem Gallery.
1999 Group exhibition in the house of Zaher Al-Omar - Araba Al-Batouf.
1999 Group exhibition in the community center - Tamra -.
1999 Group exhibition at the Municipal Cultural Center - Nazareth -.
2000 Solo exhibition in Eshkol Bays Tamra.
2002 Group exhibition at Al-Midan Theater Hall - Haifa -.
2002 Group exhibition in the workers council building - Sakhnin -.
2002 Group exhibition in New York.
2003 Solo exhibition in Fattoush Gallery - Haifa -.
2003 Solo exhibition in the village of Iblin by the Jafra Association.
2004 Group exhibition at the National Assembly Center in Tamra.
2005 Group exhibition in Dubai.
2005 Group exhibition in Tamra Gallery - Arabic Calligraphy -.
2005 Participated in a sculpture festival in Jaffna, Ramallah District, where he erected an iron statue.
2005 Solo exhibition at Tamra Gallery.
2005 Group exhibition in "4 Walls" in Hilton - Amman -.
2005 Group exhibition on the barbaric apartheid wall.
2005 Simultaneous exhibition in Ramallah, Tel-Aviv and New York.
The artist participated in group exhibitions in Acre called There Is Another Art, and in Nazareth in the Municipal Cultural Center and the French Center and in another exhibition in Tel-Aviv and Haifa at the House of “Rothschild” and Kafr Yasif at the Municipal Cultural Center.
He also participated in a group exhibition that traveled from Jerusalem to Jordan and from there to London, and the number of paintings he participated in in London was 7 oil paintings and so far the paintings have not been returned to the artist.
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