The artist lives and works in Ramallah and New York

1970 born Bethlehem

.1998-1999Whitney Independent Study Program

1994M.F.A., Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

1992 B.A., University of Dallas, Irving, TX

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2005 Where We Come From, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita

2004 Woher wir kommen, Künstlerhaus, Bremen

Den l:a på Moderna: Emily Jacir: Where We Come From, Moderna Museet,Stockholm

The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah

Nuova Icona, Venice

Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck

2003 Where We Come From, Debs & Co, New York

Belongings, O-K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria

Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Los Angeles International Art Biennial Invitational, Frumkin Duval Gallery,Santa Monica, CA; Al Ma’Mal Foundation, Jerusalem

Artspace Annex II, New Haven, CT

2002 New Photographs: Bethlehem and Ramallah, April, 2002, Debs & Co.,Project Room, New York

2000 From Paris to Riyadh (Drawings for my mother), University Gallery,University of the South, Sewanee, TN

1999 Everywhere/Nowhere, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

1997 Eastfield College Gallery, Mesquite, TX

Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005 The Art of Aggression: Iraqi Stories and Other Tales, Reynolds Gallery, Inc.,Richmond, VA

2004 Sometime: Six Works for Film and Video, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

Roving, portable Culture, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville

Election, American Fine Arts, Co., New York

Plain Sight, Bloomberg Space, London

Non Toccare La Donna Bianca, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Castel dell'Ovo, Naples

Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art-EMST, Athens

16 Beaver Video Series, Singapore Art Museum

Neither Here Nor There: Video Artists Navigate Cultural Displacement,Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville

2004Cover Girl: the Female Body and Islam in Contemporary Art, Ise CulturalFoundation, New York

5th Gwangju Biennale, Joongoe Park, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

The Ten Commandments, The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden

The People’s Republic, San Francisco Arts Commission GalleryPhotoEspaña, Madrid

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

VEIL, inIVA Touring Exhibiton, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Wherever I Am, Museum of Modern Art Oxford

Global World/Private Universe, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Empire:Videos for a New World, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

ev+a 2004 Imagine Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick

Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art

100 Cuts, Gallery 312, Chicago

This Much is Certain, Royal College of Art, London

2003 Cynical Culture, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Köln

8th Istanbul Biennale

24/7: wilno -nueva york, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Settlement, Eden Place Arts Center, Derry, Ireland; Galway Arts Center,Galway

VEIL, Institute of International Arts, London

Made in Palestine, The Art Car Museum, Houston

Shatat, CU Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder

Global Priority, Hester Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

One Ground, UCR, California Museum of Photography, Riverside

Homeland, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program,CUNY Graduate Center, New York

privat-öffentlich/ public-private, Häusler Contemporary, Munich

A Plea to Somewhere Else, Bury Art Museum, Bury, England

Into the World, (sonic) Square, Brussels

2002Unjustified, Apex Art, New York

Submerged, Nuremberg

Social Sectors, Kuntshalle Exnergasse, Vienna

Right2Fight, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Empire/State, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program,CUNY Graduate Center, New York

Queens International, Queens Museum of Art

Routes, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

A Better World is Possible, La Panaderia, Mexico City

Settlement, Gallery 400, Chicago

Williamsburg Bridges to Palestine, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center,Brooklyn

2001 Sala di Consultazione, Biagotti Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy

Strangers/Etrangers, P.S.1, The Clocktower Gallery, New York

Uncommon Threads, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, NY

Made in Transit, Vacancy Gallery, New York

2001Lecture Lounge, P.S.1, The Clocktower Gallery, New York.

2000 Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

Ekbatana, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen

Carnival in the Eye of the Storm; War/Art/ New Technologies: Kosov@,Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Marfa Studio of Arts Inaugural Exhibition, Marfa, TX

Free for All, Temporary Art Services, Chicago

Worthless (Invaluable), Moderna Gallerja, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Open Studios, 91st Floor World TradeCenter, New York

1999 Xmas, Kent Gallery, New York

Whitney Independent Open Studios, New York

1998 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1997 Women in Art: 12 Texas Women, Contemporary Art Center of Houston,TX

1996 ...east of here..(re)imagining the 'orient', YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto

World Women, -DWCA Invitational, Trammel Crow Building, Dallas

1995 Time Span,-DWCA Juried Exhibition, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX

1994 7th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper, McNeese State, LakeCharles, LA

EXPO'94, 500X Gallery, Dallas

Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2004 Hellman, Rick. “Cause Celebre: WSU orders, then removes pro-Israel literaturefrom Arab artist’s show.”The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle (December30, 2004)

Shull, Chris.“Palestinian art Exhibit to stand alone.”The Wichita Eagle(December 27, 2004)

Gheith, Jenny. “Exhibiting Politics: Palestinian-American Artist Emily Jacir Talks About her Work.” The Electronic Intifada (November 5, 2004)

(http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3292.shtml)

Kocache, Moukhtar, Erin Donnelly, Liz Thompson, eds. Site Matters: TheLower Manhattan Cultural Council's Artists Residency, 1997-2001. NewYork: LMCC

Knowles, Susan.“Reviews/Southeast: Nashville. Tennessee.”Art Papers(Nov/Dec 2004): 43-44

Gheith, Jenny. “Exhibiting Politics: Palestinian-American Artist Emily JacirTalks About her Work.” The Electronic Intifada (November 5, 2004)(electronicintifada.net/v2/article3292.shtml)

O’Hagan, Sean. “To the power of three.” The Observer (July 25, 2004)(observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1268567,00.html)

Levine, Kim. “Shortlist: Art; ‘Election.’”Village Voice (November 3-9, 2004):C46

Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: ‘Election’.”The New York Times(October 29, 2004): E38

2004““Cover Girl: The Female Body and Islam in Contemporary Art”” The NewYorker (October 18, 2004): 38

Wright, Stephen. “Emily Jacir.” Contemporary (issue 65): 46-47

Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review; “Cover Girl.”—“The Female Body and Islam inContemporary Art.”The New York Times (October 8, 2004): 37

Waxman, Lori.“Picturing Failure.”Parachute, 115 (2004): 30

Whitehead, Frederika.“Athens: Athens Concert Hall.”Contemporary (issue66): 69

Volk, Gregory.“Big Brash Borough.”Art in America (September 2004): 93-97,142

O’Hagan, Sean. “To the power of three.” The Observer (July 25, 2004)(http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1268567,00.html)

van Eekelen, Gregie, Jennifer González, Bettina Stoetzer, Anna Tsing (ed.).Shock and Awe: War on Words. Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Pressand the Institute of Advanced Feminist Research at the University ofCalifornia Santa Cruz

Saltz, Jerry. “The OK Corral.” The Village Voice (March 15, 2004)

McGee, Celia. “WHITNEY sticks its thumb out.” Daily News (March 11, 2004)

Rosenberg, Karen. “Biennial Favorites.” New York Magazine (March 1,2004): 38

Whitney Biennial 2004.New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

Vanderbilt, Tom. “Emily Jacir.” Artforum (February 2004): 140 –141

2003Dent, Tory. “Emily Jacir.” PARACHUTE, 112, (Fall 2003)

Said, Edward. “Emily Jacir.” Grand Street, Issue 72, (Fall 2003)

Hanley, Delinda C. “Made in Palestine: A Stirring Exhibit Rocks Houstonand Hits the Road” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs(November 2003 Vol. XXII, No.9): 32-33

Editors. “Emily Jacir Where We Come from Installation at the 8th IstanbulBiennial.” Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, OnlineMagazine, 4th Issue (October, 22, 2003)

Heartney, Eleanor. “Emily Jacir at Debs & Co.” Art in America (October,2003)

Hill, Joe. “Poetic Justice.” Contemporary (September-November 2003)

Breidenbach, Tom. “Emily Jacir- Debs & C.” Artforum (Summer 2003)

Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Peace Through Art, ‘Made in Palestine: Humanizes theMiddle East Conflict.” The Houston Press (July and August, 2003)

Editors. “So Much in a Simple Request,” The Los Angeles Times (July 18,2003)

Myers, Holly. “So Much in a Simple Request.” L.A. Times (July 18, 2003)

Roug, Louise. “The Talking Pictures.” The Los Angeles Times (CalendarWeekend) (July 10, 2003)

Auricchio, Laura. “Homeland.” Time Out New York (June 19-26, 2003)

Bass, Paul.“Where We’re Going.” The New Haven Advocate (June 19, 2003)

Editors. “Emily Jacir.” The New Yorker (May 12, 2003)

Cotter, Holland. “Emily Jacir.” The New York Times (May 9, 2003)

Tsai, Eugenie. “Emily Jacir, ‘Where We Come From’.” Time Out New York(May 8-15, 2003)

2003Levin, Kim. “Emily Jacir.” The Village Voice Shortlist (April 23-29, 2003)

MacMillan, Kyle. “Timely exhibit of Arab works offers new view of ragingpolitical debate.” The Denver Post (February 28, 2003)

Demos, T.J.”Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir.” Art Journal (Winter 2003) 68-78

2002Butler, Kirsten. “Enter the Ghost, Exit the Ghost, Re-enter the Ghost.”Empire/State Catalog

Cotter, Holland. “Empire/State-Artists Engaging Globalization,” The NewYork Times (July 5, 2002)

Uma. “Vom Kunstbunker zu den Konfliktherden der Welt.” Abendzeitung(April 11, 2002)

McAllester, Matthew. “Seeking Art Amid the Chaos.” Newsday (April 4,2002)

Urban, Regina, “New York im Untergrund,” Nurnberger, April 11, 2002.

Yablonsky, Linda. “Unjustified.” Time Out New York (February 14-21, 2002)

Young, Benjamin. “In Translation.” Social Sectors Catalog (Vienna) (2002)

2001Shelach, Oz. "Ohel Yizkor for the Nakba," Ha'aretz (May 18, 2001)

2000Holmes, Brian, "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm: Kosov@,” Afterimage(September/October 2000)

Canning, Susan, "Greater New York Bucks the Biennial," Art Papers(July/August 2000)

Herkenhoff, Paulo. “Emily Jacir.” P.S.1 Studio Program Catalog, 2000-01

Basualdo, Carlos. “A Worthless Question, Many Invaluable Answers.”Moderna GalerijaLlubjana, Slovenia, 2000

Faulkner, Rebecca. "Traveling Towards (Dis)appearance: A Response toEmilyJacir's Drawings." Barnard Feminist Art Conference andGreater NewYork Catalog, 2000

1996 Salloum, Jayce. “...east of here..(re)imagining the 'orient',” YYZ Artists'Outlet,(Toronto, Canada) (1996)

1995 Kutner, Janet. "Grants Go to Eight Artists." Dallas Morning News (May 19,1995)

1994 Koeppel, Fredric. "College of Art Show."The Commercial Appeal (January22,1994

SELECTED LECTURES

2004 The Art Institute of Chicago

Bennington College

2003 “Homeworks II, A Forum on Cultural Practices. ”Ashkal Alwan, Beirut

“Looking Back, Looking Beyond,” New York University, New York

“Not at East.” Arts International, New York

Visiting Lecturer, Gallery 400, University of Chicago

Visiting Lecturer, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

Visiting Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder

2002A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah

2002“Counter Narratives: A Seminar on New Cultural Practices in Video.”Khalil Sakakini, Cultural Center, Ramallah

“Wild in the Streets.” Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art,Helsinki

2000 “The Aestheticization of War’--Martha Rosler, Walid Ra’ad, Emily Jacir,Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Trebor Sholtz, Thomas Keenan.” Nomadsand Residents, New York

"Emily Jacir and Anton Sinkewich." 16Beaver, New York

"Greater New York Panel Discussion with Olu Oguibbe, Paul Pfeiffer,Emily Jacir, Pia Lindman, John Menick, and Julian Laverdiere.”P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City

Visiting Lecturer, University of the South, Sewanee, TN

1999 Visiting Lecturer, Memphis College of Art, TN

1997 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO

1996"An Artist Speaks,” Dallas Museum of Art

RESIDENCIES

2003 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

O-K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz

2002 Al-Qattan Foundation Residency, Ramallah

Al-Mamal Residency, Jerusalem

2001-2000 National Studio Program, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

2000-1999 World Views, Artist in Residence, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NewYork

1999-1998 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

1998 Artist In Residence, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

1997-1996 Artist In Residence, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

GRANTS

2004 Lambent Foundation Fellowship, New York

2003 Pennies from Heaven, The New York Community Trust

2002 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, Bronx, NY

1995 Kimbrough Award Fund, Dallas Museum of Art

AWARDS AND HONORS

2001 Marfa Studio of Arts, Public Arts Project, Marfa, TX

1996 Pamela Joseph Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village,CO

1995 Juror's Award, DWCA National Juried Exhibition, Irving, TX

1994 Presidential Purchase Award, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN




PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

National Museum of Contemporary Art-EMST, Athens

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Moderna Museet, Stockholm