About Artist
Shada Safadi was born in 1982 in Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan. She finished a two-year class in painting and etching at Adham Ismail Institute in Damascus in 2003 before she joined the department of painting at Damascus University, which she graduated from with a degree in fine arts in 2005. Safadi is a founding member of Fateh Al Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture in the occupied Golan. She has participated in multiple exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at Fateh Al Mudarris Center in 2006. Her works were also part of exhibitions that took place in Damascus and Aleppo, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Birzeit, Bethlehem, Umea, and London. Recently, she participated in the Syrian Cultural Caravan, which had exhibitions in France, Germany, Norway, and Belgium.
Safadi won third place in the Young Artist of the Year award, organized by the A.M. Qattan Foundation in 2008, with her work In the Presence of the Crow. In 2014, she was also an artist-in-residence for three months at Cité internationale des arts in Paris. She currently lives and works between Majdal Shams and Ramallah.
Conditions
The following conditions of sale describe the relationship between the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA and the buyers, prospective buyers, and bidders for the Keyword: Palestine II Art Exhibition and Auction which will begin on March 2nd, 2020, and end on December 31st, 2020. By using this website to buy, bid, or inquire about any artwork, you agree to be bound by these conditions.
When you place a bid on any artwork, you are accepting personal liability for the purchase price, any applicable taxes, any and all shipping and packing costs, and all other applicable charges. Any artwork bought by residents of the District of Columbia will be subjected to a 6% sales tax on the market value of the artwork. All U.S. resident buyers can claim tax deductions on amounts that exceed the market value of the artwork. Market value of artwork is their starting value.
Bid winners can pick up the artwork they bought from the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA or have the Institute arrange for shipment, however, reiterating, that the buyer is responsible for all packing and shipment costs.
There will be ten (10) bidding cycles. Each cycle will close on the last day of the month at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time (USA) at which time the highest bidder for the art will be notified of their winning bid.
Please note that all bids are final once submitted and may not be cancelled or modified by you, except with our express written consent under circumstances that we consider appropriate at our sole discretion. Please also note that all sales are final.