Jeanette Habash (b.1995) is a Palestinian-American painter who received her BA in Fine Arts at North Park University. Her small expressive drawings and large paintings of people aim to understand collective memory and her Palestinian heritage. Old photographs of her father’s childhood, and Palestinians in diaspora serve as the main source material for part of her work.
2020
Currently, Jeanette finds her main subject matter to be those closest to her; her family. Through painting she aims to understand each person as they are. She yearns to understand the person as a whole.
Jeanette has exhibited at the Evanston Art Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, Carlson Tower Gallery, of North Park University, G-CADD in Granite city, IL, Giertz Gallery in Champaign, IL, and Zakaib Projects in Chicago.