Khaled Jarada

Khaled Jarada is a Palestinian artist from Gaza, currently living in France. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology- Multimedia, from Palestine University in Gaza. He uses drawing, animation, and graphic storytelling in his works, which deals with issues of identity, memory, and the human body. Jarada has created visuals for several children’s books and stories, including The Bull that Stole the Kangaroo’s Cloak, (2019) with Tamer Institute for Community Education; Ant in my Computer (2015), translated to Portuguese, and Jamileh, a graphic story for youth, (2020). He has participated in several exhibitions including Color of this World, (2019) at the Tamer Institute; Lights on Gaza at the at Les Amarres Center in Paris in 2022, Art Now at Gallery One in Ramallah in 2021, and in Tomorrow’s Memory at the German Cultural Center in Ramallah (2022). Jarada has residencies at Shababeek Art Centre in Gaza, the Spanish Royal Academy and at Reims, France (2021-2022). He is a recipient of the second award of Gaza Video Festival, and the first award for his work Dreams Collector at the “Digital November” festival organized by the French Cultural Institute in Jerusalem.