Into Africa Skulpturengalerie Wernsbach
Shadow Art
Facts about Maysoon Mifleh Masalha
Date of Birth: 17. 4. 1970
Interests
Organizing different artistic activities: drawing, painting, photography, formation and synthesis and designing.
Raising artistic taste through organized artistic awareness.
Using art therapy to treat physiological problems.
Drawing, painting, carving and making formations utilizing different materials (recycling).
Making expressions about human rights using drawing, painting and photography.
Qualifications
Bachelor degree of Visual Arts, Yarmouk University in January 1992.
Educational Rehabilitation (EP) from UNRWA Educational Development Center in 2009.
Course in supervising, UNRWA. 2012 -2013
Experience
Art and Craft Manager at Abu Dhabi Art Hub, from July 2013 –until now
Art teacher at Swelieh Preparatory Girls School, UNRWA, from February 2013 – July 2013
Art Education Supervisor at EDC, UNRWA, from November 2012 to February 2013
Art teacher at Swelieh Preparatory Girls School, UNRWA, from August 2011 to November 2012
Art Education Supervisor at EDC, UNRWA, from January 2009 to August 2011
Art teacher at Baqa’a Preparatory Girls School No.5, UNRWA, from 2005 to January 2009.
Working at a private workshop for ceramics from 2003 to 2005
Participating in making a mural for the artiest Samyah El Zaru, Columns Street, King Abdullah Park in 2003.
Trainer of making ceramics: Formation and building in different ways, Saudi Arabia, Kan Yama Kan, from June 2002 to June 2003
Art teacher at Taybeh Preparatory Girls School No.1, UNRWA, from September 2001 to January 2002.
Working at a private workshop for ceramics from 1997-2000.
Art teacher at Al Manhal International School, from September 1993 to June 1996.
Working At the artiest, Mohmoud Sadeq, Irbid, from 1992 to 1993.
Courses
Training Course to enhance cooperation between UNRWA in Syria and Jordan and JICA, Japanese International Cooperation Agency; Art Therapy
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
Rosewood Abu Dhabi, July 2013
Al-Serkal Cultural Foundation, February 2014
Sofitel Abu Dhabi, April 2014
Baginiskaya Gallery, Dubai Solo Exhibition, June 2014
Rosewood Abu Dhabi, Solo Exhibition, July 2014
Pullman Dubai, Solo Exhibition, August 2014
Art Fair
Beirut Art Fair, September 2013
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, November 2013
Sikka 2014, May 2014
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, November 2014
Symposium
International Art Liwa Art Hub, December 2013
Up Cycle festival Liwa Art Hub, April 2014
Memory festival Liwa Art Hub, October 2014
Group exhibitions
Dalma Mall Abu Dhabi, September 2012
Hyatt Capital Gate, August 2013
Bawabat Al Sharq Mall / Abu Dhabi, November 2013
Marina Mall Abu Dhabi, December 2013
Arab Art month Art Hub, September 2013
Mexican Art month Art Hub, October 2013
Korean Art month Art Hub, November 2013
France Art Month Art Hub, January 2014
Canadian Art Month Art Hub, February 2014
German Art Month Art Hub, May 2014
Scandinavian Art Month Art Hub, April 2014
Dubai Culture Authority Bay Avenue, April 2014
Projects
La Storia Museum
Customize 90 life size sculptures of human figurative (2012 – 2013)
Workshops with ADMAF
A series of workshops especially for schools led by artists Bassam Al Selawi and Maysoon Masalha. By decorating a gazelle (dhabi). Master the art of mural making and creating coins through the power of printmaking! (June 2014)
Sheikh Mansur Mural
Customize a mural by casting 12000 cubes for colored reins to create a portrait of the late Sheikh Zayed, the size of the mural is 3m x 4m , installed in Sheikh Mansur office in IPIC square Abu Dhabi. (February 2014)
Gazelles in the City
Creating 13 Gazelles life size sculptures and by collaborated with 13 internationals artists to decorate these Gazelles.
Break an Egg Campaign
Creating twelve 50cm by 35cm fiber-glass eggs so the artist use it as their canvas to interpret the concept of eternal youth and new beginnings. And they applied their own visual interpretations of the campaign’s concept in a range of mediums and techniques.
