Essa Grayeb is a Palestinian visual artist working across analogue photography, moving image, and installation. His practice frequently draws on existing objects and archival footage, appropriated and reconfigured to blur boundaries between reality and fiction. Through close attention to material culture and popular media, Grayeb examines the afterlives of images and narratives from the past and their contemporary reinterpretations, particularly in relation to Arab nationalism and Pan-Arabism.

He completed his BFA in Photography in 2019 and his MFA in 2022 at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and his work has been shown internationally at institutions and exhibitions, including Kunsthaus Graz, De Appel, the Jakarta Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, The Mosaic Rooms in London, and the Palestinian Museum. He is currently a fellow at the Berliner Künstlerprogramm (DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program).