Abed Abdi is a pioneering Palestinian visual artist whose work spans painting, illustration, printmaking, public murals and monuments. Rooted in memory and resistance, his art reflects over six decades of cultural expression and commitment to Palestinian visual heritage.
The online collection features over 1,350 works created by Abed Abdi between 1955 and today, including paintings, illustrations, public monuments, environmental sculptures, prints, and more—offering a profound visual journey through decades of artistic expression.
This interactive map showcases the environmental sculptures, murals, and public art installations created by Abed Abdi.
Beyond his extensive work in diverse media, Abdi’s iconography marks a long contribution to the Palestinian struggle for recognition and the voicing of Palestinian particular identity, history and suffering as a central theme of his creative work.
“Awareness of the torn motherland”, is an appropriate general expression for Abdi’s creation… However, this “awareness” strives for universal justice, for universal artistic language that is beyond the borders and the issues of identity and nationality: at the center of his creation, the human figure appears time and time again, sketched in a sensitive illustration that is attentive to the suffering of human beings against the waves of history..
Abed Abdi is a prolific artist, having produced a significant body of work that remains largely undocumented.
The work you have done in the age of the internet is as monumental as Abed Abdi’s work is monumental in the history of Palestinian art !
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He is most notably known as the first Palestinian artist living in Israel to erect monumental works in public spaces to commemorate Palestinian modern history that are still standing in Palestinian towns and villages.
It is these images that shaped Arab visual memory of historical events like the Nekba, the refugee camps, destroyed villages, and the events of Land Day, hence the works’ significant influence on the collective memory of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
