Born in 1968 in the Libyan town of Misurata, Adnan Meatek graduated in Industrial Engineering at the University of Misurata. He currently works as Head of the General Insurance Department at the Libya Insurance Company.
Adnan Meatek is a self-made and self-taught artist. As a painter, he generally uses acrylics and watercolours. He puts strength and power in the way he paints his artworks, which usually refer to abstract, symbolist and surreal imagery.
His artworks have been exhibited both at a local and international level. He partook in the De Villa Art Exhibition in Tripoli in 1998 and in the French Culture Centre in 2002, as well as in the Arab Maghreb Exhibition in L’hay-les-Roses, France in 2009 and in the AfriCAM Exhibition at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples, Italy in 2009. Adnan Meatek also participated in several international art workshops, including the Al-Mahars Art Festival in Tunisia in 2017, the Cappadocia Art Camp in Turkey in 2018 and the Liverpool Coast Workshop in 2007.
Meatek also wrote as a Fine Art critic for various Arabic newspapers and is an engaged blogger. He founded the Mediterranean Art Forum with other artists in 2017 and entered a group of Arabic calligraphy in Tripoli in 2018. In 2020, he published his first book of art criticism on Libyan artistic experiences entitled “Reservations of Light”.