Born in 1969, Imad Abu Hashish is a painter and graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts in Amman, Jordan (class of 1993). For more than fifteen years, his works have travelled the world — from Jordan to France, from Greece to Dubai — and are now part of private collections and international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2019). But before the acclaimed artist, there was a child born in a refugee camp. Far from any carefree youth, he found in painting an escape, a breath, a refuge. For him, creating was never a choice — it was a vital necessity, an act of survival.
He conceives his canvases as sensitive compositions — they tell of his sorrows and joys, those of his people and the world, between intimate pain and universal hope. In his work, color is not meant to decorate: it heals, rebuilds, and vibrates. A true researcher of textures and chromatic emotions, Imad experiments relentlessly. Acrylic, paint gun, airbrush, geometric motifs, or floating forms — his technique is methodical, intuitive, and precise. His gesture moves between rigor and spirituality, in a quest that often borders on the dreamlike and the poetic.
