Kamal Boullata is a Palestinian painter and writer. Public collections holding his art include the British Museum, London; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; NewYork Public Library, New York; The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman; Jordan National Gallery, Amman; Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah and the Bibliothèque Louis Notari, Monaco.

His writings on Arab and Palestinian art have appeared in exhibition catalogues, anthologies and periodicals, including the Journal of Palestine Studies, Third Text, Michigan Quarterly Review, Muslim World, Quadernos de la Alhambra and The Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. He is the author of Istihdar al-Makan: Dirasat fi al-Fan al-Tashkili al-Filastini al-Mu’asir (Recovery of Place: A Study of Contemporary Palestinian Art(Alecso, Tunis, 2000), the editor of Belonging and Globalisation: Critical Essays on Contemporary Art and Culture (Saqi, London, 2008) and the author of Palestinian Art: From 1850 to the Present (Saqi, London 2009).