Aya Abu Hawash is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, mixed media, and archival research. She holds an MFA from Université Libanaise – Institut des Beaux-Arts (2016) and is completing postgraduate studies at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her work explores how intimacy clashes with brutality, with figures and landscapes reflecting the fluidity of relationships and instability during crises. She questions how intimacy in Arab culture functions through hidden archives. Aya is currently a resident at Cité Internationale des Arts and is developing Archives of Desire during her 2025 residency at La Chartreuse, Avignon.