Fatma Shannan
Visual Arts
Fatma Shannan
Fatma Shanan was born in 1986 in Julis, a Druze village in Israel. She studied art at the Oranim Academic College 2007-2010, and has exhibited her works in various galleries in Israel and Abroad.
In 2010 she received the America-Israel Cultural Foundation prize for young artists, and in 2014 she has won the prize for artists working in the community and has joined the Zemack gallery.
Shannan creates figurative oil paintings on canvas drawn from observation – picturesque scenes of Druze villages featuring traditional colorful carpets and self-portraits that address aspects of self identity and belonging, with a notion of erasing one’s individuality.
