Born in Nazareth, and living in Palestine-Israel and the United States, Sharif Waked’s work reflects on power, politics, and aesthetics. Piercing the absurd realities of conflict, his work shapes junctures between urgent moments of the present and living references from the past.

Waked has exhibited at museums and art venues including: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Macro al Mattatoio Museum, Rome; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Singapore Art Museum; Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, France; Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris; Royal Academy of Arts, London; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile; The Institute of Cultures of Islam (ICI), Paris.

His work has shown at biennials such as the Sharjah Biennial 6 and 9, UAE; Home Works II, Beirut; OFF-Biennale Budapest, Hungary; The Jerusalem Show V, 2011; Spaport Biennial, Bosnia-Herzegovina; 2014 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. He has also shown at the 50th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Berlin; 5th Madrid Film Festival; VIII CachoeiraDoc 2017, Brazil; Cork Film Centre, Ireland; Rotterdam Film Festival; and the Transmediale 05 in Berlin among other film festivals.