Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir (املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist who was born in Baghdad in Iraq.

Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia and then attended high school in Italy. She went on to earn her undergraduate degree from the University of Dallas and her MFA from the Memphis College of Art. Currently, she divides her time between New York and her hometown of Ramallah.

Jacir works in a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, writing and sound. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in places including New York, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London and Linz.

She has been active in building Ramallah's art scene since 1999 and has been involved in various organizations including the Qattan Foundation, al-Ma'mal Foundation and the Sakakini Cultural Center. She has been involved in creating numerous projects and events such as Birzeit's Virtual Art Gallery. She also founded and curated the first International Video Festival in Ramallah in 2002. [http://pivf.johnmenick.com/about.php] She is currently a full-time instructor at the International Academy of Art in Ramallah.

On 17 October 2007 she won the 'Leone d'Oro a un artista under 40' - (Golden Lion for artists under 40) - at the 52nd Venice Biennale for "a practice that takes as its subject exile in general and the Palestinian issue in particular. Without recourse to exoticism, the work on display in the central Pavilion at the Giardini establishes and expands a crossover between cinema, archival documentation, narrative and sound" . She is also a recipient of the prestigious Prince Claus Award, an annual prize from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, headquartered in The Hague. She is a 2008 finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize.

Museums

Museums where her work has been shown:
* Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Italy, nella mostra 'System Error: war is a force that gives us meanings'
* Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah [http://www.sakakini.org/visualarts/e-jasser.htm]
* Modern Art Oxford
* Museum of Modern Art in New York
* Whitney Museum of American Art

The Main Gallery in the US that shows her work is Alexander and Bonin in NYC (212.367.7474)

Biennales

International biennales which have featured her work:
* 2006 Sydney Biennale in Sydney, Australia
* 2005 and 2007 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, where she was awarded the 'Leone d'Oro a un artista under 40'
* 2005 Sharjah Biennial in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
* 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States
* 2003 Istanbul Biennial in Istanbul, Turkey

Voci correlate

*Wael Zwaiter

Articles (partial list)

*Kaelen Wilson-Goldie [http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080710/REVIEW/604866328/-1/ART Her dark materials] , 10 July 2008, The National
*Kirsty Bell: [http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/another_country Another Country] April 2008, Frieze
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/museo/6/jacir/index.html Memories in Exile] review of exhibition by Chiara Gelardin
* Report, The Electronic Intifada [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9055.shtml Artist Emily Jacir Awarded Pretigious Golden Lion]
* Roberta Smith [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E2D6173FF936A15750C0A9639C8B63 Emily Jacir -- Accumulations] , March 25, 2005, The New York Times
* Tom Vanderbilt [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389509/pg_1 Emily Jacir - Openings] , Feb. 2004, ArtForum
*Emily Jacir, Anton Sinkewich, Oz Shelach: [http://web.archive.org/web/20031009041328/http://www.israelimperialnews.org/battlecry.htm BATTLE CRY Boycott of all Israeli Art Institutions] 7th April 2002, Israel Imperial News,
*Emily Jacir: [http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article5301.shtml Ali La Pointe and Zena's words on the New York streets] , 28 July 2006, The Electronic Intifada
*Emily Jacir: [http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article6042.shtml A Tale of Two Sisters: Witnessing an Undercover Israeli Operation in Ramallah (2)] , 15 November 2006, The Electronic Intifada
*Emily Jacir: [http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article6238.shtml Photostory: Retracing bus no. 23 on the historic Jerusalem-Hebron Road] , 15 December 2006, The Electronic Intifada (alternative link: [http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2051&ed=136&edid=136] )
*Emily Jacir: [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6560.shtml Palestinian Revolution Cinema Comes to NYC] , 16 February 2007, The Electronic Intifada
*Emily Jacir: [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7098.shtml "Material for a film": Retracing Wael Zuaiter (Part 1)] , installation in the 2007 La Biennale di Venezia, 16 July 2007, The Electronic Intifada
*Emily Jacir: [http://electronicIntifada.net/v2/article7097.shtml "Material for a film": A performance (Part 2)] , 16 July 2007, The Electronic Intifada

External links

* [http://www.guggenheim.org/press_releases/release_214.html Guggenheim Museum]
* [http://majnouna.blogspot.com/ Amoula il Majnoona]
* [http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/what_we_do/awards/princeclausawardemilyjacir.shtml Prince Claus award]
* [http://www.labiennale.org/it/news/arte/it/78447.html Prixes at 52th Venice Biennal]
* [http://www.hugoboss.com/hugobossprize/ Hugo Boss Prize 2008]
* [http://www.debsandco.com/jacir.html Where We Come From at Debs&Co]