Sharif Waked (Arabic: شريف واكد) (born 1964) is a Palestinian visual artist.

Waked’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (NY), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Fondation Louis-Vuitton pour la création (Paris), Israel Museum Jerusalem, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia, and the Barjeel Art Foundation (UAE).

In her critique of Waked's painting "Melancholia," Naomi Aviv writes: "Waked juxtaposes slivers of sayings and fragments of images drawn from the reservoirs of memory.

The act of photographing captures also the flash of light that is reflected as a darkish beam on the computer screen and becomes an integral part of the picture, endowing it with a dramatic effect.

The invasive beam of light has an aesthetic value, but also the troubling and subversive presence of a foreign element: as though someone is trying to illuminate the art work with a flashlight in order to ferret in its innards; as though the art work itself is suspected of subversion.