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 BIBLIOGRAPHY2004 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 RESIDENCIES2003 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 GRANTS2004 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 HONORS2001 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 National Museum of Contemporary Art-EMST, Athens Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Moderna Museet, Stockholm |