Said Haddadin
March 20, 1945, Ma'in - Jordan


EDUCATION

Lvove College of Art, USSR, 1974
Degree: B.A. degree in Arts


PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
  • 1975 Soviet Cultural Center, Jordan.
  • 1984 Soviet Cultural Center, Jordan.
  • 1985 Spanish Cultural Center, Jordan.
  • 1989 Soviet Cultural Center, Jordan.
  • 1989 Professional Association Center, Jordan.
  • 1995 Orfali Gallery, Jordan.
  • 1996 Orfali Gallery, Jordan.
  • 1997 Al-Madinah Gallery, Jordan.
  • 1998 Darat el Funoun, Jordan.
  • 2000 Al-Madinah Gallery, Jordan.
  • 2002 Orfali Gallery / Jordan.
  • 2005 Al-Madinah Gallery, Jordan.
  • 2008 Al-Madinah Gallery, Jordan.

Also participated in numerous collective exhibitions in Jordan and abroad including:
  • 1976 15th of May Art Exhibition, Jordanian Writers' Union.
  • 1977 First Jordanian Fine Arts Exhibition.
  • 1980 Jordanian Artists Association Exhibition.
  • 1981 Aqaba Spring Festival.
  • 1987 Spanish Cultural Center (Jordanian Art Collections).
  • 1988 Professional Association Center, Amman, collection of caricatures relating to the 1987-1988 Palestinian Uprising (INTIFADA).
  • 1989 BARBICAN Center (collections from Islamic Arts) London.
  • 1991 FINIQ Gallery (collections from Jordanian Art) Amman.
  • 1993 Exhibition for caricatures for Arab Arts, Marriott Hotel Amman.
  • 1994 AIN Gallery (Iraqi Jordanian Modern Art) Amman.
  • 1994 Italian Language Center (collections from Jordanian and Iraqi Art), Amman.
  • 1994 Orfali Gallery (Jordan-Iraqi Joint art exhibition) Amman.
  • 1994 BABEL Festival for Art, Baghdad.
  • 1996 Jordanian Exhibition, Al-Madinah Gallery, Amman.
  • 1996 Exhibition for caricatures for Arab Arts, Yemen, Sana’a.
  • 2000 Jordanian Exhibition, Beijing.
  • 2001 Sharjah International Arts Biennial 5th Session April, Sharjah.
  • 2002 From the Ocean to the Gulf and Beyond – Arab Modern Art, The Jordan National Gallery of Fin Arts.
  • 2004 Festival of Mediterranean People, August, Blaceglie (Bari), Italy.
  • 2005 Jordanian Exhibition in Medeny, Sudan.

Participated in the Jordan International Art Symposium, Jordan 2009.

Participated in the international Forum for Plastic Arts III, Sharm El Sheakh – Egypt, 2009.

During his years of study he held exhibits in Kiev and Lvov in the USSR.

Today, several of his works hang in the private collections of individuals in Jordan, Australia, France, Lebanon, Iraq, USA, Syria, Germany, Sweden, Kuwait, United Kingdom, Cyprus, Qatar, Japan and Egypt.

Collections of his works are displayed in Jordan International Museum, Ministry of Culture, Qatar Museum, Greater Amman Municipality, Audi Bank collection, Sheraton Hotel collection.

Mr. Haddadin has contributed cartoons and caricatures to local periodicals and to Al Wijdan Al-Arabi, published in Holland.

Mr. Haddadin worked for Sawt Al-Sha'ab Jordanian Newspaper, as caricaturist between 1989-1990.

Mr. Haddadin is a founding member of the Jordanian Arts Association.

He lectured arts and decor materials at different Jordanian Community Colleges.

He has contributions in the field of art's critics in the local Journalism.

He teaches free hand art to the students of architecture in Jordan University 1994-1995.

He did as a teacher for Music and Fine Arts College, affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (1994 – 2003).


Said Haddadin