Mohammad Jaloos
Born in Amman 1960
1997-1981 Studied Painting at Jordan Institute of Fine Arts
1981 BA in Business Administration, Jordan University
1994-1995 Lived in New York City, USA
2003-2004 President of the Jordanian Plastic Artists Association
Member of the Higher Committee of the National Culture Conference 2004
Member of Jury, Philadelphia University, the Best Artwork, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
Member of selection jury, Bahrain yearly exhibition, 2009
Member of jury, Oman, 19th yearly exhibition, 2011, and 23rd yearly exhibition
Member of Jury in numerous art competitions,for children’s Paintings and artists.
CAB Art Gallery & CAB International Art Symposium – Art director
Ayla International Art Symposium / Advisor –Curator .
Publications
Memory of a Side Street, a collection of short stories, 1984
Buyut Min al-Salt, watercolor paintings, 1997
Faces From Within, 2002
Arabia Ya Buyut al-Quds, watercolor paintings, 2003
1981-1987 Contributed many articles in the field of art, Criticism and Journalism
Thirty Years in Painting, Dar al Adeeb, Amman
A collection of short stories , ( Asabe Maleeha ),Adar al ahliya – Amman 2018.
Memberships and Affiliations
– Member of the Jordanian Writers’ Association
– Member of the International Association of
– Plastic Arts IAP (UNESCO), Paris, since 1992
Special Achievements As An Artist
– Mural of the Municipality of Amman 2001
– Painted the largest outside wall mural (21×9 meters), entitled “Birth” on the occasion of declaring Amman the Capital of Arab Culture
– “Mexican Mode,” a mural in Bronx, NY City, 1995
– Numerous other mural for Aqaba, Jerusalem Hotel, Philadelphia University
– Documentary for television (57 minutes) about the artist’s Life and art, directed by Sawsan Darwaza, entitled “Haulaa al-Akharun,” produced by Meraa Media First Run Orbit TV, 2000
One Man Shows
1981 – Artists Association Hall, Amman
1983 – Artists Association Hall, Amman
1985 – Petra Bank Art Gallery, Amman
1987 – Artists Association Hall, Amman
1988 – Alia Art Gallery, Amman
1989 – Alia Art Gallery, Amman
1990 – Royal Cultural Center, Amman
1991 – French Cultural Center, Amman
1992 – Baladna Art Gallery, Amman
– Riwaq al-Balqaa Art Gallery, Watercolors, Fuheis
1993 – Musée des Métiers de Mercure, Rochefort, France
– Ashtar 2 Art Gallery, Damascus, Syria
1994 – Galerie Temple, La Rochelle, France
– French Cultural Center, Amman
1996 – Baladna Art Gallery, Amman
1997 – Al-Taqaddum Association Hall, Amman (watercolors)
1998 – Ashtar Art Gallery, Damascus, Syria
1999 – French Cultural Center, Amman
2000 – Dar Al Anda Gallery, Amman
– Ambassador Hotel, Jerusalem, Palestine Watercolors
2001 – National Council for Culture & Arts, Kuwait
2002 – Dar Al Anda Gallery, Amman (Faces from Within)
– Al Sayyed Art Gallery, Damascus, Syria
– Orfaly Gallery, Amman
– Al Qasaba Channel, Sharjah, UAE
– Oman Society of Fine Art, Salala, Oman
2006 – Philadelphia University, Jordan
2007 – Forsight Gallery, Amman
2008 – Royal Cultural Center, Amman (Watercolors)
2010 – CAB Art Gallery, Amman, Book Launch, Thirty Years in Painting
2013 – CAB Art Gallery, Amman (Memory)
2016 – Nabad Art Gallery, Amman
– PAAC , arab American Community , NJ , USA . (water color collection-limited edition)
2019 – Palestin Museum, USA
– (Doors 48), CAB Art Gallery, Amman
Group Exhibitions
1985 – Kuwait Biennial
– Jordan Artists Exhibition, Peking, China
1986 – Arab Contemporary Art, Mall Gallery, London
– Baghdad First International Festival, Baghdad
1987 – Jordanian Fine Arts Festival, Amman
1988 – Selection of Jordanian Paintings, Ukraine, USSR
– Baghdad Second International Festival, Baghdad
– Selection of Jordanian Fine Art, Spanish
– Cultural Center, Amman
1989 – Group Exhibition of four artists: Jamal Ashour, Hazim Zouby, Ghada Dahdaleh and Mohammad Al Jaloos, Petra Bank Art Gallery, Amman
– Art in Our Daily Life Exhibition, National Museum, Casablanca, Morocco
1990 – Collection of Jordan Ministry of Culture, Artist Association Hall
– Jordanian Palestinian Fine Art Exhibition, Royal Cultural Center, Amman
– Jordanian Fine Art Exhibition, Shoman Foundation Gallery, Amman
– Selection of Jordanian Fine Art, University of Science and Technology, Jordan
1991 – Three Artists, Shauki Shaukini, Rifwqi al Razzaz and Mohammad AlJaloos, Shoman Foundation Gallery
– Forum, Tripoli, Libya
1992 – Seville International Expo, Spain
– Mehres International Festival, Tunisia
– Fuheis Third Festival, Fuhais, Jordan
– Selection of Jordanian Fine Art, Spanish Cultural Center, Amman
– Nomination for UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of Arts, through Ministry of Culture & Jordanian Artists Association
– Re-Creations Exhibition, French Cultural Center, Amman
1993 -Abaad Gallery, Amman, Group Exhibition
– Tonnay-Boutonne International Festival, France
– The Opening of Darat Al Funun, Shoman Foundation, Amman
1994 – REC Gallery Exhibition, Paris, with Wijdan Ali, Ali Al Mandalawi, Muna Zalouk, Mohammad Hussein Abdullah and Qasem Al Saedi
– Amman First International Festival, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman
– Art Sphere Gallery, New York, Postmodern Abstract From East to Middle East
1996 – Espace Creation Socio-Culturel de IEPDSAE, 7 Artists, Lille, France
– Mouscron International Festival of Fine Arts, Belgium
– Atkinson Gallery UK, Contemporary Art from Jordan, Collection of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
1997 – Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
2000 – Darat al-Funun, Amman, Private Collection
2002 – Al Moftaha Art Meeting, Workshop, Saudi Arabia
– Dar Al Anda Gallery, Amman, opening of new location
– Tehran Second Painting Biennial of the Islamic World, Tehran, Iran
2003 – Williamsburg Bridges Palestine 2002, fifty artists, New York, USA
– Mehres International Festival of Fine Arts, Tunisia
– Spring Exhibition by Jordanian Artists Association, Municipality Hall, Amman
– Jordanian Culture Week Exhibition, Sharjah, UAE
2004 – Mehres International Festival of Fine Arts, Tunisia
2006 – Mehres International Festival of Fine Arts, Tunisia
– Arab Contemporary Art, Frankfurt, Germany
– First Tripoli Sculpture Symposium, Tripoli, Lebanon
2009 – Coordinated and participated in the International Workshop for Gaza, Mehres International Festival of Fine Arts, Tunisia
– Cairo International Biennial, Cairo, Egypt
– Workshop, Jerusalem in Their Eyes, Damascus, Syria
– 100 Artists & 100 Paintings by the City of Amman, 100 Years Since Amman’s Establishment
– CAB Art Gallery, Amman, 25 Artists
2010 – With Abbas Yousef, Bahraini artist, Kamel Gallery, Damascus, Syria
– 13 Artists, Miniatures, Kamel Gallery, Damascus, Syria
– Arab Art Exhibition, Collection of Mehres Festival, in Paris
2011 – Creative Palestinians, Art Sawa, Dubai
– Sunny Art Fair, Zara Center, Amman
2012 -Diversity from the Arab World, 21 Arab Artists, Al Bareh Art Gallery, Bahrain
– Memory of Place, Exhibition to benefit Iraqi Children, UNESCO in Cooperation with Iraqi Businessmen, Dar Al Anda Art Gallery, Amman
2013 – MAC International Symposium and Exhibition, Asilah, Morocco
2014 – Al Asmakh International Art Symposium, Doha, Qatar
2015 – Al Asmakh Atelier, Doha, Qatar
– Workshop at MAC, Asilah, Morocco
– Cairo Amman Bank International Art Symposium, Amman
– Baku International Festival (painting workshop).
2016 – China , Arab Artists’s workshop by ministry of culture – Nenpo -China.
– Ayla International Art Symposium 1 –Aqaba – Jordan.
– Workshop of Amman by the national Gallery of Jordan .
– Al Oxus Art Symposium 9 , Egypt .
2017 Arab Artists Meeting, Qatar association for arts, workshop – painting, Doha –Qatar.
– workshop (graphic & etching ) Asylah – bareech , ( lesan al tair ) painters and poets, Morocco .
– Ayla International Art Symposium 2 –Aqaba – Jordan
– The festival of Islamic art – Sharjah (workshop of mixed media with the students – of the art institute of Sharjah)
– Palestinian art exhibition – Kuwait – Abdalla al edwani hall by Palestinian heritage center.
2018 CAB International Art Symposium4, Amman – Jordan.
2019 4th maritime Silk Road International Arts Festival – Quanzhou – China.
2020 Music days in Berlin – Germany, with the Iraqi artist Fakher Mohammad , online exhibition.
Prizes
-First Prize, the Second Tehran Biennial of Contemporary Paintings of the Islamic World
-Certificate of the Jury of Mouscron International Festival of Fine Arts, 1996, Belgium
2020 The artist’s Silk Road Painting won the final screening of the Silk Road Project within 25 international panels, and the Gallus Board was chosen as one of the 7 paintings that were considered the first row with the winning works that were acquired from the Chinese Ministry of Culture and the National Academy of Painting in China
Collections
-National Art Museum of China( NAMOC ), Beijing
-Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman
-Moroccan National Museum, Casablanca, Morocco
-Tehran Academy of Fine Arts
-Mehres Festival, Tunisia
-Museum of Modern Art, Kuwait
-Ministry of Culture, Damascus, Syria
-Q Gallery, Baku. Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, UK, Sweden, France, Italy, Malta, Belgium