Adam Rouhana Palestinian-American, b. 1991
Adam Rouhana (b. 1991, Boston, MA) is a Palestinian-American artist and
photographer based between Jerusalem and London. He is currently the Jameel
Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Rouhana’s photography works to deconstruct orientalism through his subjective
lens within the broader context of Palestine. Through the introduction of new
narratives, Rouhana’s work embraces themes of the past to create a
contemporary Palestinian visuality characterized by representations of Palestinian
lives that embody an active ethic of self-determination. He is often inspired by
scenes of his grandmother’s fruit orchard and domestic life from his early
memories in Palestine.
His work has been exhibited at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, the 7th Tunis Art
Biennale, the 3rd Doha Photography Biennale, FRIEZE Cork Street Gallery,
Rencontres d’Arles, The Wellcome Collection Museum, MK&G Museum, The
Palestinian Museum, The Museum of Warsaw, Kunsthal Rotterdam, and
Kyotographie, among others.
His writing and visual work have appeared in The New York Times, The New
Yorker, Aperture, Journal of Palestine Studies, Dazed, The Art News Paper, The
Guardian, VICE, i-D, FRIEZE Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Vogue,
Artnet, An0ther, and Harpers Magazine.
His work is part of the permanent collections at the Brooklyn Museum, the Krupa
Art Foundation, and The Palestinian Museum.
Rouhana received his master’s from the University of Oxford and was recently
long listed for the Deutsche Börse 2026.
