Bio

Raida Adon — Artist Biography

Raida Adon (born 1972 in Acre) is a Palestinian artist, painter, video artist, and actress. In 2002, she graduated from the Department of Art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In recent years, she has lived and worked in Paris, alongside an active international artistic career.

Her work explores questions of home, memory, displacement, belonging, and identity, as well as the relationships between the body, the individual, place, and social and political realities. Through painting, video, and performance, she develops a personal and poetic visual language that brings together individual and collective memories. In her video works, she creates entire visual worlds, designing sets and costumes, directing, and often performing herself. In some of her works, she involves non-professional actors, giving space to their presence, stories, and lived experiences.

Her works have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and biennials around the world. Notable exhibitions and events include the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Massachusetts (2022); a performance at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (2023); the Larnaca Biennale, Cyprus (2023); an exhibition at ZAZ 10TS Gallery in Times Square, New York (2025); and the 32nd Pontevedra Biennial, Spain (2025). In 2026, she participated in an artist residency at 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, Los Angeles.

Alongside her visual art practice, Adon has worked extensively as an actress in theater, film, and television. She has appeared in the television series Fauda and The Girl from Oslo, as well as in the films 3000 Nights, The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels, The Trumpet in the Wadi, and other productions. Her theater work includes performances at the Cameri Theater and the Palestinian National Al-Hakawati Theater in Jerusalem.

She has received several awards and distinctions for her work, including the Outstanding Creator and Actress Award for her monodrama Fasatine at the Acre Festival (2001), Ministry of Education awards in 2008 and 2011, and the Shulamit Aloni Award (2023).

At the heart of her artistic practice lies an ongoing exploration of the idea of home—not only as a physical place, but also as a space of memory, identity, longing, loss, and hope. Her works seek to give form and presence to human experiences that sometimes cannot find expression in words.