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1980


"Inaugural Exhibition of the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts"Under the patronage of His Majesty the late King Hussein and Her Majesty Queen Noor Al- Hussein.
The Permanent Collection:
Painting: Ala Hussein Bashir, Jawdat Hassib, Freish Kanikian, Omran Qaisy, Hassan Massoudy, Issam El-Said, Naziha Salim, Nizar Salim, Suha Yousuf (Iraq) Nasr Abdul Aziz, Aziz Ammoura, Suhail Bisharat, Muhanna Durra, Yasser Dwaik, Muhammad Moustafa, Ahmad Nawash, Munira Nusseibeh Toukan, Wijdan, Samia Zaru, Fahrelnissa Zeid (Jordan); Amine Elbacha, Hrair, Helen Khal, Wajih Nahleh (Lebanon); Safder Ali, Rashid Ahmad Arshad, Gulgee, Hussein, Ali Imam, Khalid Iqbal, Jameel Naqsh, Moyene Najmi, Gholam Rasul, Sadequain (Pakistan); Jumana Husseini, Kamal Boullata (Palestine); Al Jundi, Safia Bin Zugur (Saudi Arabia)  Omer Fawzi (Turkey).
Sculpture: Muqbil Zahawi (Iraq), Samer Tabbaa (Jordan).
Ceramics: Nuha Radi (Iraq), Mahmoud Taha (Jordan). 

The Orientalist Collection:
Painting: Hans Hansen (Denmark); Arthur Trevor Haddon, David Roberts (England); Jean Leon Gerome, J.J.A. Lecomte de Nouy (France); A. Schwinger (Germany); Vittorio Guaccimanni (Italy) Barnnette (Spain).

The Early Pioneers in Jordan
Painting: Jack Girdelstone (England), Armando Pron (Italy), Omar Onsi (Lebanon), George Aleef, (Russia), Ziyaeddin Suleiman (Turkey).

1980


"Contemporary Art from Tunisia"
Painting:  In cooperation with le Musee d'Art Moderne de Belvedere, Tunis.

1980


"Kosovarian Contemporary Art"    
 Painting and Etching: Isac Aslani, Hamdi Barthi, Aghos Beshiri, Angel Brisa, Halima Catovic, Asad Fala, Rajab Firi, Taher Imara, Jevdet Java, Jilos Jokai, Sevita Kamonovic, Adam Kastrati, Husni Krasnici, Vatmir Kriba, Nimon Lokai, Halil Mohajri, Muslim Molci, Nabih Morici, Sucri Nimani, Mati Rodici, Nesret Salihamicic, Madhar Tsaka, Zoran Voronovici, Zoran Yovanovic, Vatmir Zamimi. In cooperation with the Embassy of Yugoslavia, Amman.


1980
"Mahmoud Taha" (Jordan) ceramics.

1980
"Amin Elbacha" (Lebanon) painting.

1980
"Samer Tabbaa" (Jordan) sculpture.

1980
"Wijdan's Paintings" (Jordan) painting.
 

1980
"Suhail Bisharat" (Jordan) painting.

1981
"Un Certain Choix: Art Contemporain en France (1960-1980)"
Painting and Drawing: Leonardo Cremonini, Olivier Debre Maurice Esteve,  Jean-Michel Meurice, Bernard Monino, Pierre Soulages, Arpad Szenes, Gerard Titus-Carmel, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Zao Wou Ki.
Photography: Martine Franck.
Porcelaine of Sevres:  Blazat et Combot, Fein, Etienne Hajdu, Francois-Xavier  Lalanne.
Tapestry: Genevieve Asse, Dom Robert (Robert de Chaugnac-Langre). In cooperation with le Musee National d'Art Moderne du Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and Association Francaise d'Action Artistique in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

1981
"Photographs from the Last Century"
(USA) from the collection of the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In cooperation with the Jordanian Ministries of Culture and Tourism.

1981
"Contemporary British Sculpture: Henry Moore and Others":
Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Judith Bluck, Anthony Caro, Lynn Chadwick, Hubert Dalwood, Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Meadows, Denis Mitchell, Henry Moore, Gavin Scobie, William Turnbull. From the permanent collection of the British Council, London.In cooperation with the British Council, Amman.

1981
"Turkish Painting: On the Occasion of the Centenary of Ataturk's Birth"
Painting and Etching: Halil Pasa (1856-1940), Sevket Dag (1876-1944), Ibrahim Calli (1882-1960), Hikmet Onat (1882-1977), Feyhaman Duran (1886-1970), Hasan Vecih Bereketoglu (1895-1971), Cevat Erkul (1897-1981), Seref Akdik (1899-1972), Cevat Dereli (1900-), Nazli Ecevit 1900-), Refik Epikman (1901-74), Abdin Elderoglu (1901-74), Zeki Kocamemi (1901-59), Malik Aksel (1903-), Hamit Gorele (1903-80), Fikret Mualla (1903-67), Nurullah Berk (1903-), Fahrelnissa Zeid (1903), Nurettin Erguven (1905-79), Sefik Bursali (1905-), Turget Zaim (1906-74), Semsi Arel (1906-), Aliye Berger (1906-74), Ziya Keseroglu (1906-76), Cemal Bingol (1912-), Eren Eyuboglu (1913-), Cemil Eren (1917-), Kayihan Keskinok (1923-), Adnan Turani (1925-), Leman Tatug (1926-), Nuri Abac (1926-), Nevzat Akoral (1926-), Orhan Peker (1927-78), Turan Erol (1927-), Huseyn Yuce (1928-), Ruzin Gercin (1930-) Ozdemir Altan (1931-), Utka Varlik (1942-), Yalcin Gorcebag (1944-), Hasan Pekmezci (1945-), Veysal Gunay (1948-), Habip Aydagdu (1952-). In cooperation with the Turkish Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Culture.

1981
"Le Renouveau de la Figuration" (France)
Etching: Adami, Gilles Aillaud, J. Arnaiz, Arroyo, Atila, Titus Carmel, J. Chase-Pot, Cueco, Erro, Lucien Fleury, Wolfgang Gafgen, Gerard Giasiorowski, Gramatzki, Weiss Hugh, Kermarnec, Peter Klasen, Maccio, Malaval, Bruce Mark, Moninot, Monory, Olivier, Jacques Poli, Rancillac, Reclalcati, Peter Stampli, Velickovic, Yvon Taillandier, Herve Telemaque, Tisserand, Tizblat. In cooperation with the French Cultural Center, Amman.

1981
"Ahmad Nawash" (Jordan) painting.

1981
"Rafa Nasiri" (Iraq) painting.

1981
"Juliana Seraphime" (Lebanon) painting.

1982
"Iraqi Contemporary Art"
Painting, sculpture and ceramics: Faraj Abbo, Salman Abbas, Turki Abdel Amir, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Muhammad Arif, Hamid Attar, Laila Attar, Suad Attar, Ala' Bashir, Salim Dabbagh, Rakan Dabdoub, Batul Fukaiki, Kadim Haidar, Sami Haqi, Faik Hassan, Hassan Abed Alwan, Ali Jabry, Khalid Jadir, Khdair Jirjees, Saadi Kaabi, Ismail Khayat, Muhammad Mihreldin, Ghalib Naji, Rafa Nasiri, Amer Obaidi, Nouri Rawi, Shawkat Roubai, Khedair Shakarji, Muhammad Ali Shakir, Ismail Sheikhly, Ali Talib. In cooperation with the Iraqi Ministry of Culture.

1982
"Spanish Contemporary Art" 
Painting, Etching and Sculpture: Albert Agullo, Luis Ruiz del Arbol, Waldo Balart, Cristina de Baviera, Amalia Oya Burgos, Miguel Angel Echuari, Isabela Godlewska, Pedro Guajardo, Sixto Marco, Lorenzo Mena, Antonio Miro, Antonio Fernandez Molina, Alejandro Mieres, Josep Nosas, Carmen Gullen Perez-Seoane, Cesar Gonzalez Pola, Victor Puyuelo, Domingo Sarrey, Maria Teresa Spinola. In cooperation with the Spanish Embassy, Amman.

1982
"Wafa Sinno" (Lebanon) painting.
To celebrate the "International Year for the Handicapped". In cooperation with the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation

1982
"Munira Nusseibeh" (Palestine) painting and sculpture.

1983
"Contemporary Senegalese Weaving"
Wall-hanging: Badaru Camara, Ansoumana Diedhiou, Bakary Dieme, Bocar Diong, Allessane Diop, Daouda Diouk, Mar Fall, Ousmane Faye, Boubacar Goudiaby, Khalifa Gueye, Tamsir Gueye, Mohamadou Mbaye, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Amidou Sall, Moussa Samb, Mamadou Tiam, Meissa Tounkara, Mamadou Wade, Omar Talla Wade. In cooperation with the Senegalese Ministry of Culture.

1983
"Ali Jabri" (Jordan) painting.

1983
"Paul Guiragossian" (Lebanon) painting.

1984
"Kamal Boullata" (Palestine) Etching.

1984
"Aziz Ammoura and Kuram Nimry" (Jordan)
Painting and Sculpture.

1985
"Egyptian Contemporary Art"
Painting and Etching: Farghali Abdel Hafiz, Abdel Badee Abdel Hai, Mahmoud Abdullah, Fathi Ahmad, Ragheb Ayyad, Hussein Bikar, Inji Efflatoun, Zakaria Elzini, Hussein Fawzi, Abdel Hadi Gazzar, Hussein Gabali, Tahia Halim, Ezzedin Hammouda, Muhammad Taha Hussein, Fouad Kamel, Youssef Kamel, Mounir Kanaan, Abu Khalil Lutfi, Sabri Mansour, Moustafa Abdel Moati, Abdel Al-Wahab Morsi, Hamid Nada, Muhammad Nagi, Marguerite Nakhla, Ahmad Nawar, Rabab Nimr, Ahmad Maher Raef, Sabri Raghab, Sayyed Abdel Rasoul, Moustafa Razzaz, Ahmad Sabri, Mahmoud Said, Mohammad Riad Said, Farouq Shehada, Salah Taher, Ahmad Fouad Selim, Gazbia Sirry, Seif Wanli, Ramses Younan, Zeinab Abdul Hamid Zarkani.
Sculpture: Adam Hunain, Mahmoud Mukhtar, Abdel Kader Rizk, Gamal Seguini. In cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and the Modern Art Museum, Cairo.

1985
"Shirl Goedike" (USA) Painting.

1986
"On the Banks of the Jordan: British Nineteenth Century Painters"
Painting: Thomas Allom, William Bartlett, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, Edward Daniel Clarke, John Dugmore, Paul Ellis, Tristram Ellis, John Fulleylove, Edward A. Goodall, Carl Haag, Holman Hunt, Edward Lear, Maria Harriet Mathias, Luigi Mayer, David Roberts, Thomas Seddon, William Turner, Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale, Godfrey Thomas Vigne, John Stuart-Wortley, David Wilkie. In cooperation with the British Council, Amman, and The Victoria and Albert Museum,London.

1986
"Said Nusseibeh" (Palestine) Photography.

1986
"Mahmoud Sadiq" (Jordan) Painting.

1986
"Petra Legend 1" Suha Shoman (Jordan) Painting.

1986
"Faik Hassan" (Iraq) Painting.

1986
"Nicholas Egon" (United Kingdom) Painting.

1987
"Architecture of Mamluk Jerusalem"
Drawing, Photography and Artifacts. In cooperation with the British School of Archeology in Amman.

1988
"Mahmoud Taha" (Jordan) Ceramics.

1988
"Conflict 85"
Samia Zaru (Palestine) Painting, Sculpture and Installation.

1988
"Samer Tabbaa" (Jordan) Sculpture.

1988
"Nabil Shehadeh" (Jordan) Painting.

1988
"The Ottoman Architect Sinan: to Mark 400 Years of the Architect's Death"
(Turkey) Architectural plans and Photography. In cooperation with the Turkish Embassy, Amman.

1989
"Paintings from the Gulf"
Painting and Sculpture: Balqis Fakhro, Abdul Latif Mghayir, Nasser Yousuf (Bahrain); Thuraya Baqsami, Jassem Bu Hamad, Samia Sayid Omar, Abdel Rasul Salman, Issa Saqr (Kuwait); Yusuf Ahmad, Hassan Mulla (Qatar); Fuad Mugharbil, Sa'ad Mus'ari, Nabil Najdi, Fahed al-Rabiq, Abdul Jabar Yahya (Saudi Arabia); Wafa'a Sabbagh, Najat Hassan Makki (United Arab Emirates). In cooperation with the Friends of Art from the Gulf Cooperation Council".

1989
"German Prints and Graphics" (Germany).
Etching: Lieberman, Slevogt, Corinth. In cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Amman.

1989
"Hachimi Azza" (Morocco) Etching.

1989
"Aziz Ammoura" (Jordan) Painting and Drawing.

1989
"The Sacred and Secular: Islamic Calligraphy from the 9th to the 20th Century".
In cooperation with Le Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.

1990
"Trial & Creativity" (Palestine)
Painting: Nabil Anani, Suliman Mansour, and Tayseer Barakat
Ceramics: Vera Tamari.

1990
"Laila Shawa" (Palestine) Painting.

1992
"A Message from Malaysia"
Painting: Sharifah Fatimah Zubir, Nirmala Shanmughalingam, Khalil Ibrahim, Ahmad Yusof, Ismail Abdul Latif. In cooperation with the Malaysian Ministry of Culture.

1992
"The Meaning of Time & Space"  Shakir Hassan Al Said (Iraq) Painting.

1993
"Petra Legend 2" Suha Shoman (Jordan) Painting and Installation.  

1994
"Arab Artists from France"
Painting: Mohamad Aksouh, Ould Mohnad, Hamid Tiboushi (Algeria); Adam Hunain, Mona Zaalouk (Egypt); Akeel Abbas, Ali Fenjan, Mahdi Moutachar (Iraq); Assad Arabi (Lebanon); Abdallah Sadouk (Morocco); Ghiyath Akhras, Yakzan Atassi, Ezzuldin Shammout, Mustafa Fathi, Sakher Farzat (Syria).

1995
"Pakistani Women of Substance in Painting and Photographs"
Painting and Photography: Aliya Aziz, Anjum Ayob Khan, Ayesha Humaira, Hajira Mansour, Hasnain Malik, Humaira Ejaz, Jamila Masud, Kahkashan Jafri, Lala Rukh, Mansoora Hassan, Meher Afroze, Mussarat Mirza, Mubashara Sami, Mussrat Nahid Imam, Munira Alam, Nahid Raza, Nurayah Sheikh Nabi, Qudsia Nisar, Rabia Rizvi, Salima Hashmi, Saba Sharif, Sabeeha Nasir, Tavir F. Rehman, Zahra David, Zehra Ali, Zubeda Javed. In cooperation with the National Council of the Arts, Karachi and the Embassy of Pakistan, Amman.

1995
"The Role of Calligraphy in Contemporary Islamic Art"
Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics. From the Permanent Collection of the JNGFA.

1995
"Encounters: Norwegian Contemporary Art"
Paintings: Kjetil I. Berge, Inger-Johanne Brautaset, Goran A. Ohldieck, Sigrid Szetu, Jan Erik Willgoghs.
Sculpture: Marit Benthe Nordheim.
Weaving: Tove Pedersen. In cooperation with the Royal Norwegian Embassy, Amman.

1995
"Abanicos"
Maria Bochol (Spain) Hand-painted fans. In cooperation with Institution Cervantes, Amman.

1995
"Najwa Ennab and Jumana Sayegh"
(Jordan and Lebanon), Ceramics and Clay.

1995
"Kingdom of Peace"  Zohrab (Jordan) Photography.

1996
"The Right to Hope: One World Art"
Painting: Youssouf Bath (Ivory Coast), Ricardo Benaim (Venezuela), Alexander Borodie (Ukraine), Buu Chi (Vietnam), Siron Franco (Brazil), Gongkar Gyatso (Tibet), Khalid Khreis (Jordan), Louis Metzger (Sierra Leone), Owusu-Ankomah (Germany/Ghana), Marilene Phipps (Haiti), Efrain Recinos (Guatemala), Gazbia Sirry (Egypt), Shanqing Zeng & Yanping Yang (China).
Sculpture: Victor Anicet (Martinique), Asupati (Indonesia), Anahi Caceres (Argentina), Angus Kaanerk Cockney (Canada), El Anatsui (Ghana), Ariffin Ismail (Malaysia), Hamiduzzaman Khan (Bangladesh), Ivo Lill (Estonia), Johan Mhlanga (Swaziland), Cecilia M. Peyrelongue (Mexico/Chile), Marko Pogacnik (Slovenia), Vivan Sandaram (India), Kimio Tsuchiya (Japan), Gladman Zinyeka (Zimbabwe).
Wall hanging:  Tony Capellan (Dominican Republic), Nike O. Davies (Nigeria), Fallo Baba Keita (Mali), Movimiento Ramos (Peru), Judy Watson & Gonzalo Mella (Australia), One World Action Group (UK).
Prints:  Joe Madisia (Namibia), Laila Shawa (Palestine).
Installations: Handan Borutecene (Turkey), Willem Boshoff (South Africa), Rashid Diab (Spain/Sudan), Duck-Hyun Cho (Korea), Monica Gonzalez (Paraguay), Santiago Olazabal (Cuba), Zerihun Yetmgeta (Ethiopia). In cooperation with the Right to Hope Trust, South Africa.

1996
"Dossier Hond & Hamer: Art in Cultural Transmission"
Installations: Pieter Alewijns, Waldo Bien, Andre Boone, Jan van den Dobbelsteen, La Verne Douglas & Anet van de Elzen (Netherlands), Marlyn Dunker (Curacao), Choreh Feyzdjou (Iran), Manel Esparbe Gasca (Spain), Elektron Grundentahler (USSR), Bert Hermens, Edu Kisman, Daniolle Lemaire (Netherlands), Elias Marmaras (Greece) Mariano Maturana (Chile), Jack Mensink (Netherlands), Krikor Momdjian (Lebanon), Moria Papadimitriou (Greece), Vinh Phuong (Vietnam), Charly van Rest (Indonesia), Monkith Saaid (Iraq).

1996
"Beauty of the Four Seasons in Japan"
Fumio Kitaoka (Japan)
Woodblock Prints. In cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, Amman.

1997
"From Script to Abstraction" (Indonesia)
Painting: Umi Dashlan, Heyi Ma'mun, A.D. Pirous, Edna Garnasih Pirous, Amang Rahman, Setiawan Sabana, Tisna Sanjaya, Haryadi Suadi, Dwijo Sukatmo, Sunaryo. In cooperation with the Indonesian  Embassy, Amman.

1997
"Chinese Brush Painting"
Chao Song, Li Chi-Mao, Shen Cheen (The Republic of China: Taiwan) In cooperation with the Young Muslim Women Association, Amman.

1997
"Ecology & Environment in Iraqi Art"
Painting, Sculpture and Installation: Shinyar Abdullah, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Salim Dabbagh, Ghassan Ghaib, Haidar Khalid, Hana Malallah, Saad Shakir Muhammad, Fahmi Qaisi.

1997
"Aura Mediterrana: Catalan Masters of the 20th Century"  (Spain)
Painting and Drawing: H. Anglada Camarasa, Ramon Casas, Antoni Clave, Salvador Dali, Alfred Figueras, Torres Garcia, Pau Gargallo, Francesc Gimeno, Juli Gonzalez, Joaquim Mir, Joan Miro Isidre Nonell, Pablo Picasso, Santiago Rusinol, Joaquim Sunyer, Antoni Tapies, Miquel Viladrich.
Sculpture: Julio Antonio, Enric Casanovas, Josep Clara , Salvador Dali­, Apel-les Fenosa, Pablo Gargallo, Manolo Hugue, Joan Miro.
Ceramics: J. Llorens Artigas,
Photography: Catala  Roca,
Maquettes: Antoni Gaudi, In cooperation with the Generalitat de Catalunya and Institut Catala de la Mediterrania d'Estudis i Cooperacio, Barcelona.

1997
"Palestine: the Reality and the Dream"
Ismail Shamout, Tamam Akhal, Abd Abedi, Ibrahim Hazimeh. (Palestine) Painting and Sculpture.

1997
"Journeys Within"
Gulgee and Amin (Pakistan) Painting, Sculpture and Jewelry.

1998
"Symbiosis"
Bashir Makhoul (Palestine) and Alnoor Mitha (India) Painting and Installation.

1998
"Ahl al - Bayt"
Nassar Mansour (Jordan) Classical Arabic Calligraphy.

1999
"Painting from Pakistan"
Ghulam Rasul, Mehr Afroze, Akram Dost, Ghulam Mustafa, Misbah Qazi. In cooperation with the Embassy of Pakistan, Amman.

1999
"Beyond the Image"
Painting: Nawal Abdullah (Jordan) and Hussein Shareef (Sudan). Installation: Faisal Samra (Saudi Arabia).

1999
"The Gateway"
Ibrahim Nubani, Ahmad Kan'an, Osama Said, Jumana Abboud, Hassan Khater, Abed Abidi, Rana Bishara (Palestine) Painting and Sculpture.

1999
"Stream of Fire: Art from Armenia"
Painting: Achot Achot, Garen Andreassian, Samuel Baghdassarian, Ashod Bayandour, Marcos Grigorian, Rouben Grigorian, Sarkis Hamalbashian, Armen Kevorkian, Kiki (Krikor Mikayelyan), Arman Krikorian, Vahan Roumelian, Ararat Sarkissian. In cooperation with Pharos Trust, Cyprus.

1999
"Jose Niebla"  (Spain) Painting.
In cooperation with the Consortium of Museums of the Valencia Commune, Spain.

2000
"Orientalism in the Paintings of Antonio Mounoz Degrain"  (Spain).
In cooperation with the consortium of Museums of the Valencia Commune, Spain.

2000
"Ralph Resch" (France) Painting.
In cooperation with the French Cultural Center, Amman.

2000
"Muhanna Forever : The Pioneer of Modern Art in Jordan"  Muhanna   Durra (Jordan) Painting.

2000
"Kuwaiti Art in Jordan"
Painting: Ali Abdul Rahman Albadad, Abdul Aziz Arti, Safwan Ayubi, Muhammad M. Buhairi, Ayub Hussein, Muhammad Qambar, Abdullah Qassar, Khalifa Qattan, Mahmoud Radwan.
Sculpture: Sami Muhammad, Khazal Qaffas, Issa Saqr.
Ceramics: Ali Hassan Awad. In cooperation with the Kwaiti National Council for Culture, Art and Literature.

2000
"Generations Encounter" (Jordan)
Painting: Nasr Abdul Aziz, Nawal Abdullah, Aziz Ammoura, Ghada Dahdaleh, Muhanna Durra, Riham Ghassib, Khalid Khreis, Rafiq Laham, Fuad Mimi, Muhammad Nasrallah, Hind Nasser, Mahmoud Sadiq, Nabil Shehadeh, Dodi Tabbaa.
Sculpture: Larissa Najjar, Nazih Oweis, Samer Tabbaa, Samia Zaru.
Ceramics: Mahmoud Taha, Hazim Zo'bi
Photography: Rajwa Ali, Adnan Sharif.

2000
"Palestine: The Exodus and the Odyssey"  Ismail Shamout and Tamam Akhal (Palestine) Painting.

2001
"Art from Taiwan"
Painting: Meng Chao-Kuang, Chen Yang-chun, Chen Yang-hsi. In cooperation with the Commercial Office of Taiwan.

2001
"Art from Iran"
Painting: Hossein Ahmadinasab, Mehdi Anoushfar, Alireza Jodi, Ali Nedayi, Freydoun Omidi,  Mahmoud Samandarian, Haideh Sharifi Aneh, Mohammad Tatari. In cooperation with the Modern Art Museum in Tehran and the Iranian Embassy in Amman.

2001
"Picturing the Century" (USA) Photography. In cooperation with the United States Embassy in Amman.

2001
"Art from Russia"
Painting: Nikolai Borovskoi, Valentin Sidorov, Alexei Suhovetsky, Julia Suhovitskaia, Anatoli Yakushin. In cooperation with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Amman and the Artists Union of Russia.

2001
"Nasser Ovissi"  Nasser Ovissi (Iran) Painting. In cooperation with Center for World Dialogue, Cyprus.

2001
"The Dream, The Color, The Sign" (Italy) Painting:
Pippo Altomare, Claudio Bissattini, Francesca Bonanni, Massimo Catalani, Sergio Ceccotti, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Angelo Crielesi, David D'Amore, Franco De Courten, Graziano Di Giulio, Gaetano Di Riso, Salvatore Dominelli, Paolo Giorgi, Federica Luzzi, Claudio Martinez, Ruggero Maggi, Diego Mazzoni, Rosetta Messori, Tommaso Notarangelo, Hannu Palosuo, Pippo Patrono, Sergio Pucci, Salvatore Pupillo, Virginia Ryan, Massimo Ruiu, Paolo Sabbatini Di Rancidoro, Alessandro Sardella, Alberto Vannnetti. In cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Amman.

2001
"Between Art and Sufism"
Painting: Sami Makarem (Lebanon), Sami Burhan, Khaled al-Sa'i  (Syria). In cooperation with Instituto Cervantes in Amman.

2001
"Contemporary Art from The Emirates"
Painting: Khalil Abd al-Wahid Abd al-Rahman, Mohammad Abdullah, Mohammad Kathem, Juwayreyeh al-Khajah, Muna al-Khajah, Abd al-Qadir al-Rayes,  Abdullah Mohammad al-Sa'di, Abd al-Raheem Salem, Hassan Shareef, Hussain Shareef, Kareema al-Shomali, Obaid Soroor, Mohammad Yousef  (United Arab Emirates). In cooperation with the UAE Ministry of Information and Culture and the UAE Embassy in Amman.

2001
"Beirut's Poem and Path of Roses"
Rachid Kora?i (Algeria) Installation. In cooperation with the Middle East Center for Culture and Development (MECCAD) and the Forum for African Arts.

2001
"Jordan: Nature and History"  Photography Competition. In cooperation wih the Ministry of Culture. 

2001
"Spiritul Edifics of Islam"  Painting and Etching: Wahbi Al-Hariri-Rifai. In cooperation with GDG Exhibits Trust, Washington D.C. 

2002
"Manolo Valdes"  (Spain) Painting.
In cooperation with Consorci De Museus De La Comunitat Valencia, the Embassy of Spain and Cervantes Institute in Amman.

2002
"The Mountains" on the occasion of "2002: U.N Year of the Mountains"
Painting: Didier Ruef.
Photography: Urs Kneubuhl
In cooperation with the Embassy of Switzerland, Amman .

2002
"Creativity"
17 Jordanian women artists, on the occasion of International Woman's day.
Painting: Nawal Abdallah, Rawabi Abu Ghazaleh, Shereen Audeh, Karima Ben Othman, Ghada Dahdaleh, Riham Ghaseeb, Samar Haddadin, Makram Hakhandouka, Hilda Hiary, Najwa Innab, Clara Amado Khreis, Sana Masri, Ne'mat Naser, Juman Nimri, Rula Shukery, Dodi Tabbaa, Margaret Tadros.

2002
"From the Ocean to the Gulf and Beyond: Arab Contemporary Art" on the occasion of: "Amman the Arab Cultural Capital 2002"
Painting, Etching, Sculpture, Ceramics and Installation:  Muhamad Aksouh, Rachid Koraichi, Houria Niati, Abderrahmane Ould Mohand (Algeria). Abbas Yusuf Ahmad, Abdul Jabbar Alghadban, Nasser Al-Yousif, Balqees Fakhro (Bahrain). Moustafa Abdel Moati, Mahmoud Abdul Ati,  Farghali Abdul Hafeez, Chant Avedissian, Kamal Amin Awad, Raghib Ayyad, Hussein Bikar, Adam Henein, Muhammad Taha Hussein, Muhammad Abu Khalil Lutfi, Mansour Mansi, Ramzi Moustafa, Hamid Nada, Abdul Rahman Nashar, Rabab Nimer, Ahmad Nuwar, Rifki Razaz, Muhammad Shakir, Awad Shimi, Salah Taher, Seif Wanli, Mona Zaalouk(Egypt). Muhammad Hussein Abdallah, Shaker Hassan Al Said, Himet Ali, Rafa Nasiri, Suad Attar, Dia Azzawi, Ala Bashir, Wasma Chorbachi, Salim Dabbagh, Rakan Dabdoub, Hafidh Drubi, Issam El-Said, Ismail Fattah, Jamil Hamoudi, Faik Hassan,  Saleh Jumaie, Saadi Kaabi, Jafar Kaki, Freish Kanikian, Leila Kawash, Hassan Massoudy, Mehdi Moutasher, Nuha Radi, Monkith Saaid, Atta Sabri, Muhamed Sakkar, Jawad Salim, Sa'ad Shakir, Ismail Sheikhly, Ali Talib, Muqbil Zahawi(Iraq). Nawal Abdallah, Saleh Abu Shindi, Muhammad Abu Zreik, Rajwa Ali, Tawfik Al-Said, Muhammad Amiri, Aliya Shanti Ammoura, Aziz Amoura, Kayed Amr, Jamal Ashour, Yussuf  Baddawi, Karima Ben Othman, Omar Bsoul, Hussein Daasa, Ghada Dahaleh, Muhanna Durra, Riham Ghassib, Ali Ghul, Said Haddadin, Mukarram Hakhandouqa, Omar Hamdan, Najwa Innab, Ali Jabri, Mohammad Jaloos, Hafiz Kassis, Ammar Khammash , Khalid Khreis, Rafik Lahham, Fouad Mimi, Mohammad  Mostapha, Ibrahim Najjar, Muhammad Nasrallah, Hind Mango Nasser, Ahmad Nawash, Kuram Nimri, Suha Katbeh Noursi, Nazih Owais, Mohammad Qaitouqa, Mahmoud Sadeq, Muhammad Samara, Muna Saudi, George Sayegh, Abdel Raouf Shamoun, Adnan Sharif, Nabil Shehadeh, Suha Shoman, Rula Shukairy, Dodi Tabbaa, Samer Tabbaa, Margherite Tadros, Mahmoud Taha, Issam Tantawi, Jalal Uraiqat, Wijdan, Adnan Yahya, Fahrelnissa Zaid (Jordan). Thuraya Baqsami, Jasim Bu Hamid, Jaafar Islah, Abdel Rasul Salman, Issa Saqir (Kuwait). Shafiq Abboud, Etel Adnan, Saliba Douaihy, Amin Elbacha, Paul Guiragossian, Hassan Jouni, Aref Rayess, Juliana Seraphime, Shawki Shoukini, Asaad Urabi, Ali Omar Ermes (Lebanon).Hachemi Azza, Farid Belkahia, Abdulla Hariri, Najia Mehadji, Mohamed Melehi, Mahdi Qotbi, Abdallah Sadouk, Omar Youssufi. Oman: Muhammad Al-Sayigh, Nadira Mahmoud (Morocco).  Abed Abidi, Tamam Akhal, Nabil Anani, Isam Badr, Jamal Badran,  Samira Badran, Tayseer Barakat, Kamal Boullata, Yassir Duwaik, Nabila Hilmi, Jumana Husseini, Ahmad Kanaan, Bashir Makhoul, Suleiman Mansour, Nasr Abdul Aziz, Mounira Nusseibeh, Samir Salameh, Ismail Shammout, Leila Shawa, Vera Tamari, Vladimir Tamari, Samia Zaru (Palestine). Yussef Ahmad, Ali Hassan, Hassan Mulla (Qatar). Fahda Bint Saud, Dia Aziz Dia, Yusuf Jaha, Faisal Samra (Saudi Arabia).  Ahmad Ibrahim Abdal Aal, Muhammad Ahmad Abdullah, Shams Eddin Adam, Tagelsir Ahmed, Bastawi Baghdadi, Rashid Diab, Ibrahim El-Awaam, Mohamed Omer Khalil, Abdel Basit Khatim, Kamal Moustafa, Hussein Hadi Noor, Majdoub Rabah, Hussein Sharife, Ahmad Shibrain, Osman Waqialla (Sudan). Rabii Akhras, Mustafa Ali, Lutfi al-Ramhein, Yaqzan Atassi, Sami Burhan, Ziad Dalloul,  Sakher Farzat, Mahmoud Hammad, Nazir Ismail, Fateh Moudarres, Laila Muraywid, Nizar Sabour, Nasir Shoura, Ghasan Sibai, Saad Yagan, Elias Zayat (Syria). Khalid Asram,  Mohamed Ben Meftah, Khalid Ben Slimane, Habib Bida, Ibrahim Dahak, Aicha Filali, Abdel Aziz Gorgi, Rafik Kamel, Hedi Labban, Qouaider Triki (Tunisia).  Khalil Abdul Wahid, Abdel Qadir Rayis, Abdul Raheem Salim, Maisoon Saqr al-Qasimi (United Arab Emirates). Ali Ghaddaaf (Yemen).

2002
"Arab Sculpture Symposium"  Sculpture:
Ahmad Kanaan (Palestine), Hassan Khater, Rabii Akhras (Syria), Rachid Koraichi (Algeria), Abdul Aziz Abu Ghazaleh, Kuram Nimri (Jordan), Mohamad Shanmary (Iraq), Mansour Mansi (Egypt).

2002
"Mahmoud Taha" (Jordan) Ceramics.

2002
"Jordan: Man and Nature" Photography Competition.
In cooperation with the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

2002
"Rawabi Abu Ghazaleh"  (Jordan) Jewelry .

2003
"Atyaf"  Young Jordanian Artists
Painting: Ahmad Khaldy, Diala Khasawneh, Samer Kurdi, Suheil Baqaeen,  Shereen Audi, Abeer Dinah, Kamal Ariqat,  Maha Zaru, Hani Alqam, Hilda Hiari.
Etching: Juman Nimri, Hakim Jamain, Sima Zureikat.
Sculpture: Anees Maany.
Photography: Orayb Touqan, Mustafa Abu Dnen.

2003
"Suite Europa"  (Spain)
Painting: Frederic Amat, Eduardo Arroyo, Jose Manuel Broto, Carmen Calvo, Jose Luis Cuevas, Martin Chirino, Javier Fernandez De Molina, Jorge Galindo, Luis Gordillo, Joan Hernandez Pijuan, Kcho, Guillermo Kuitca, Jose Maria Larrondo, Francisco Peinado, Albert Rafols-Casamada, Soledad Sevilla, Jose Maria Sicilia, Dario Villalba. In cooperation with the Embassy of Spain in Amman.

2003
"Los Caprichos de Goya" (Spain) Etching of Francisco de Goya.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Spain and the Instituto Cervantes in Amman.

2003
"Views from the Islamic World"
Painting: Bin Yahya (Brunei). Nazli Makdour, Ayyad Nimer (Egypt). Faraj Abbou, Nuri Behjet, Khalil Jader, Widad Orfali, Noor Raui, Atta Sabri, Jawad Saleem, Naziha Selim (Iraq). Farida Lashai (Iran). Nawal Abdallah, Saleh Abu Shindi, Rajwa Ali, Basma Asfour, Abdallah Bin Nayef, Yasser Dwaik, Riham Ghassib, Ali Ghul, Ali Jabri, Ammar Khammash, Clara Amado Khreis, Fouad Mimi, Suha Katbeh Noursi, Mahmoud Sadiq, Tawfiq Sayed, Diana Shamounki, Suha Shoman, Wijdan (Jordan). Thuraya Baqsami (Kuwait). Chaouki Choukini, Amin El Bacha (Lebanon). Ghazanfer Ali (Pakistan). Tamam Akhal, Said Nusseibeh, Taisir Sharaf (Palestine). Yussef Ahmad Jaha (Saudi Arabia). Ahmad Babkeer (Sudan). Fateh Moudarres, Hamoud Shantoot (Syria). Avni Arbas, Melissa Erder, Cemil Eren, Turan Erol (Turkey).

2003
"Al-Quds Al-Sharif" Old Photographs.
In cooperation with the French Embassy in Jordan and L'Ecole Biblique et Archeologique de Jerusalem.

2003
"City In Your Hands" (Spain) Paintings by Miquel Navarro.
In cooperation with Consorci De Museus De La Comunitat Valencia, the Embassy of Spain and Cervantes Institute in Amman.

2003
"Colours of Malaysia" 19 Malaysian artists.
In cooperation with the Malaysian Wotercolour Organization ( MWO )  .
Watercolour painting: Abdul Ghani Ahmad, Aminah Abd Rahman, Cheah Yew Saik, Cheung Pooi Yip, Chiang Shih Wen, Chow Chin Chuan, Chua Cheng Koon, Khalil Ibrahim, Koh Shim Luen, Lan Siong Onn, Kim Hai Lim, Mansor Ghazalli, Md Sani Md Dom, Ooi Aik Ceong, Rafie Bin Abdul Rahman, Sharifah Zuriah Aljeffri, Tengku Alaudin Bin Tengku Abd Majid(Dato'), Dr. Wong Seng-Tong, Yong Look Lam.

2003
''Tawashujat''
Between Poet and Artists, by uniting a Lebanese literary figure Sharbel Dagher, with seven Arab artists: Jamal Abdul Rahim  (Bahrain), Muhammad Fathi Abul Naja (Egypt), Hana Malallah (Iraq), Wijdan (Jordan), Etel Adnan, Gada Jamal (Lebanon), Faisal Al-Samra (Saudi Arabia).

2004
"Elberto Carazon" (Spain) Painting.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Spain and Cervantes Institute in Amman.

2004
"Paul Guiragossian" (Lebanon) Painting.
Director's choice from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Fine Arts.

2004
"Ikebana and a painting"  (Jordan).
In cooperation with the Ikebana International Club Jordan Chapter.

2004
"Mahmood Hammad" (Syria) Painting.
Director's choice from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Fine Arts.

2004
"Contemporary Ukrainian Modern Art" (Ukraine) Painting.
In cooperation with the Embassy of Ukraine in Amman and Tadzio Gallery.

2004
"Shakir Hassan Al- Said" (Iraq) Painting.
Director's choice from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Fine Arts.

2005
"Inaugural Exhibition of the Jordan National Gallery Complex"  Under the patronage of Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania Al - Abdullah.
The Permanent Collection:
Painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, installation, weaving and ceramics: Yasser Dwaik, Samer Tabbaa, Ali Jabri, Wijdan, Fouad Mimi, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Muhanna Durra, Aziz Ammoura, Kuram Numri, Rafik Lahham, Omar Hamdan, Diana Shamounki, Hafiz Kassis, Tawfiq Sayed, Nasr Abdel Aziz, Said Haddadin, Mahmoud Sadiq, Ammar Khammash, Suha Shoman, Nabil Shehadeh, Ali Ghul, Dodi Tabbaa, Khalid Khreis, Hazem Zu'bi, Hind Mango Nasser, Ihsan Idilbi, Rula Shukairy, Riham Ghassib, Ghada Dahdaleh, Clara Amado Khreis, Mohammad Ameri, Nassar Mansour, Rajwa Ali, Mohamed Kaitouka, Samer Kurdi, Juman Nimiri, Jihad Ameri (Jordan); Houria Niati, Rachid Koraichi, Mohamad Aksouh (Algeria); Hala Al-Khalifa, Abdul Rahim Sharif, Balqees Fakhru, Jamal Abdul Rahim, Abbas Ahmed, Abdul Jabbar Ghadban (Bahrain); Adam Henein, Salah Taher, Hussein Bikar, Ahmad Sabri, Rabab Nimer, Muhammad Shaker, Farghali Abdel Hafiz, Ayyad Nimer, Ragheb Ayad, Inji Efflatoun, Nazli Madkour, Mohammad Naghi, Gazbia Sirry, Hamed Nada, Kamal Amin Awad, Menhat Allah Hilmy, Said Hafiz Hadayah, Awad Shimi, Ahmad Nawar, Abdal Wahab Abdal Muhsen, Mustafa Razzaz, Hussein Gebali, Mahmoud Lutfi, Ramzi Mustafa, Muhammad Taha Hussein, Ahmad Mustafa (Egypt); Dia Ghzawi, Nizar Salim, Nuha Radi, Jawdat Hassib, Faik Hassan, Ali Taleb, Ismail Fattah, Ismail Sheikhly, Atta Sabri, Faraj Abbou, Jawad Saleem, Noori Rawi, Laila Kawash, Madiha Omar, Ghassan Ghaeb, Saleh Jumaie, Shakir Hassan Al-Said, Sa'adi Ka'abi, Suad Attar, Jafar Kaki, Rafa Nasiri, Hassan Massoudy, Issam Said, Jamil Hammoudi, Mohammad Shammary (Iraq), Thuraya Baqsami, Abdel Rasoul Salman (Kuwait); Saliba Douaihy, Shafic Abboud, Assad Arabi, Ghada Jamal, Amin Elbacha (Lebanon); Ali Omar Ermes (Libya); Laila Shawa, Jumana Husseini, Bashir Makhoul, Kamal Boulata, Samir Salameh, Munira Nusseibeh, Tamam Akhal, Suleiman Mansour, Ismail Shammout, Afaf Arafat (Palestine); Ali Hassan, Hassan Mulla (Qatar); Abdel Halim Radwi, Yussef Ahmad Jaha, Omar Al-Hegelan (Saudi Arabia); Nizar Sabour, Khaled Khani, Elias Zayat, Ghassan Sibai, Fateh Moudarres, Nazir Naba'a, Sakher Farazat, Nasir Chura, Ziad Dalloul, Sami Burhan, Mahmoud Hammad (Syria); Tagelsir Ahmad, Ahmad Amer, Bastawi Baghdadi, Abdel Basit Hatem, Shams Eddin Adam, Abdel Qader Bakheet, Hussein Sharriffe, Rashid Diab, Muhammad Khalil, Ibrahim Awam, Mohammad Abdallah Oteibi, Majdoub Rabah (Sudan); Ali Gurmassi, Ibrahim Dahhak (Tunisia); Abd Al-Qader Rays (U.A.E); Fouad Futeih, Ali Ghaddaf (Yemen); Marcos Grigorian, Ashod Bayandour, Sarkis Hamalbashian (Armenia); Gerard Quenum (Benin); Iftikhar El Deen Ahmed, Munir Islam, Mohamed Kibria, Ruqaya Sultan, Rafiq Nabi (Bangladesh); Ahmet Ibukic (Bosnia Herzegovina); Pg. Haji Muhammad bin Pg. Durman (Brunei); Rhea Bailey (Cyprus); Alena Smejkalova (Czech Republic); El Anatsui (Ghana/Nigeria); Husein, Krishna Reddy, Amina Ahmed Ahuja (India); Dodog Soeseno, Dwijo Sukatmo, A.D.Pirous, Suaryo (Indonesia); Hossein Ahmadinasab, Ghassem Hadjizadeh, Freydoun Omidi, Hossein Zenderoudi, Ali Nasiri (Iran); Armando Pr?Italy); Ruslan Tsrym (Kabardino Balkaria); Sharifah Fatimah Zubir, Nirmala Shanmughalingam, Ahmad Khalid Yusof, Abdul Ghani Ahmad, Cheah Yew Saik, Chiang Shih Wen, Chow Chin Chuan, Chua Cheng Koon, Khalil Ibrahim, Koh Shim Luen, Kim Hai Lim, Md Sani Md Dom (Malasyia); Najmi Saura, Colin David, Hasan Zaidi, Ghulam Rasul, Mansoora Hassan, Sadequain (Pakistan); Jose Luis Alexanco (Spain); Zieratshoh Duvotov (Tajikistan); Bedri Rahmi Eyoboglu, Turan Erol, Fikret Mualla, Abidin Elderoglu, Ziyaeddin Suleiman, Yalcin Gokcebag, Avni Arbas (Turkey).

2005

"Empathy"
An exhibition of Spanish contemporary art, organized by the Royal Society of Fine Arts in cooperation with the embassy of Spain and Instituto Cervantes and the Institut Valenciana d'Art Modern (IVAM).
This exhibition presents the sentimental poetics of Francisco Brines with original drawings by Carmen Calvo, an interdisciplinary convergence between aesthetic and intellectual manifestations of artists that work in different languages.(11-30 November)

2006

"Alexander the Great: The Vision of Tolerance"
An exhibition featuring the work of the Greek painter Efthymios Warlamis.(2 March - 12 April)

2006

"Las mil y Una oches"
an exhibition by Jose Maria Sicilia that forms part of a multidisciplinary project entitled "La mil y una nochas"; A Thousand and One Nights. This exhibition is curated by Alicia Chillida and comprises 70 works of art including oil and wax on wood, drawings, tapestry and etchings inspired by the theme "A Thousand and One Nights".(25 April - 25 May)

2006

"Jamil Hamoudi: a tribute to the late artist"
An exhibition of abstract paintings and drawings that reveals originality that is unconfined by occidental formalism and indicates that this work can be considered as a solid step towards the establishment of discernible Arab School of art. Jamil Hamoudi's paintings show considerable influence of early oriental art and manuscripts, his expression is rich in pure colors and abstract lines that flow harmoniously on canvas.


2006
"Hues II"
An exhibition introducing Young Jordanian Artists. Following the first sequel in 2003, this exhibition grants the chance for fresh Jordanian talents to present their work to the public.(12 October - 28 December )

2006

"Octavio Sarda"
A sculpture exhibition by Octavio Sarda, Spanish sculptor and Jewelry designer from Barcelona (22 November - 28 December)

2006
"Contemporary art from Taiwan"
An exhibition featuring contemporary chinese ink paintings by 5 artists from Taiwan: Hsiao chin-hsing, Huang kuang-nan, Lo cheng-Hsein, Tu Tsan Lin, Chen Shih Hou
(8 November)

2007

"50 years on Joan Barbara's engraving studio"
Exhibition in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain and Instituto Cervantes
Featuring prominent Spanish and international artists. (24 January)

2007
"Italy: The one and only - A century of photography 1900-2000"
Italian Photography Exhibiton in cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Amman
(17 March)

2007
"Dance of Visions"
Collective exhibition between Sweden and Jordan, sponsered by Nuqul Group and Sony Ericsson
(21 May)

2007
"Soul"
Exhibition by the spanish artist Francesca Marti - Opening cermony of the Jordan Spanish Week
(23 May)

2007
"Sophie's World"
Jewelry exhibition by Rawabi Abu Ghazaleh, during which a physical body drama for the producer Majd Qasas will be performed
(4 September)

2007
"AMRIK : Arab Presence in South America"
Photography exhibition in cooperation with the embassy of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
(12 November)

2007
"Rembrandt in Jordan: Original Etchings & Reproduction of paintings"
Exhibition in cooperation with the Royal Netherlands Embassy and Museum Het Rembrandthuis - Amsterdam
(10 December 2007 - 10 January 2008)

2008

"Anton Lamazares: Horizon without owner"
An exhibition, in cooperation with Instituto Cervantes,by the Spanish artist Anton Lamazares
(2 March 2008 - 3 April 2008)

2008

"Ceramics by Picasso"
An exhibition of ceramics, etchings and illustrated books for the Spanish Artist PICASSO,
in cooperation with Instituto Cervantes.
(11 May 2008 - 13 July 2008)


2008
"Still together" by the late artist Ismail Shammout and Tamam Al Akhal
Which presents artworks of oil by both artists.This exhibition is in the memory of the late artist Ismail Shammout as he is one of the pioneers in the Palestinian fine art.
The exhibition will run through 7-8-2008

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