Said Haddadin

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.
2010 Finan Gallery, Jordan
2011 Adult Pioneer Forum (Muntada Alrewad Alkebar), Jordan
2013 Adult Pioneer Forum (Muntada Alrewad Alkebar), 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.
He participated in the International Forum for Plastic Arts III, Sharm El Sheikh – Egypt, in 2009.
During his years of study, he held exhibits in Kiev and Lvove in the USSR.
Today, several of his works hang in the private collections of individuals in Jordan, Australia, France, Lebanon, Iraq, the USA, Syria, Germany, Sweden, Kuwait, the 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, and 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 a caricaturist between 1989-1990.
Mr. Haddadin is a founding member of the Jordanian Arts Association.
He lectured on arts and decor materials at different Jordanian Community Colleges.
He has contributed to the field of art’s critics in local Journalism.
He taught free hand art to architecture students at Jordan University from 1994-1995.
He worked as a Music and Fine Arts College teacher, affiliated with the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (1994 – 2003).
He worked as a part-time teacher at the Arts Training Center/affiliated with the Ministry of Culture from 1994-2003.
The Amman Municipality issued a study on the experience of Saeed Haddadin’s works, submitted by visual critic Hussein Nashwan in 2007.

He was honoured with a special honouring ceremony at the Great Pioneers Forum (Muntada Alrewad Alkebar) in 2013 in appreciation of his distinguished efforts in serving the Jordanian plastic arts movement and in recognition of his noble national stances and as one of the creative Arab plastic icons.