Born in Gaza in 1990 and currently based in France, Mahmoud Alhaj holds a BA in journalism and has been working as an art teacher at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society since 2017. He has produced six projects utilizing photography, digital art, and video, which have been widely exhibited in Palestine, Europe, and the United States. In 2022, his short experimental film “The Right to See” was screened at the 35th Festival Les Instants Video in Marseille. In 2021, it was also featured at the Cairo Video Festival, alongside a duo exhibition with Rob Voerman at the Plaatsmaken studio in the Netherlands. His first solo show, titled “402 Of Gray,” was held in Gaza, followed by his second solo exhibition, “Violence 24/7,” at Uxval Gochez Gallery in Barcelona in 2024. Recently,

Alhaj has participated in numerous collective exhibitions, including “Fenced Off” by the ICRC in 2022, “ART NOW” at Gallery One in 2021, “Art in Isolation” at the Middle East Institute in Washington in 2020, “Contemplative Contrasts” by the A.M. Qattan Foundation, and “Orient 2.0” at Pulchri Studio in the Netherlands in 2017. He was an artist in residence at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2021, and at residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2023. His project “Control Anatomy” was showcased at Zawyeh Gallery in Ramallah in 2024.