
The Artist:
Emily Jacir, originally from Bethlehem, grew up in Saudi Arabia, went
to high school in Roma, Italy (and returned for part of college),
received her B.F.A.(Texas) and M.F.A.(Tennessee) in America and then
spent several years on the move living in Texas, Palestine, Colorado,
France, and New York. She currently lives and works between Ramallah
and New York City.
Emily has shown extensively throughout Europe, the Americas and
the Middle East. Her solo exhibitions in 2003 include Debs&
Co, NY; Los Angeles International Art Biennial, Frumkin/Duval Gallery,
Santa Monica,CA; and the O-K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz,
Austria. Jacir will be featured at the 8th International Istanbul
Biennial in September 2003.
She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions internationally
at spaces which include Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germany(2003);
Bury Art Museum, Bury, England(2003); Grazer Kunstverein, Graz,
Austria(2003); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania(2003);
New Art Gallery Walsall, England (2003); UCR/California Museum of
Photography, Riverside, CA(2003); Queens Museum of Art, NY(2002);
Apex Art, NY (2002); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria (2002);
La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico (2002); Kunstbunker, Nuremberg,
Germany(2002); Biagotti Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy (2001);
P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, NY(2001); Nikolaj Contemporary Art
Center, Copenhagen, Denmark(2001); Moderna Gallerja, Llubjana, Slovenia(2001);
YYZ Artists Outlet, Toronto, Canada(1996).
She was awarded the 1995 Kimbrough Award Fund from The Dallas Museum
of Art and a 2002 grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for
Women. She was an artist-in-residence at The Townhouse Gallery in
Cairo, Egypt, 2003; Anadiel Gallery, Jerusalem, Palestine, 2002;
A.M. Qattan Center in Ramallah, Palestine, 2002; Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council's World Views in the World Trade Center in 2000;
P.S.1 National Studio Program, 2001; Cite Internationale des Arts
in Paris, France, 1998; and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado,1996.
Jacir participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent
Study Program in 1998-99.
Her work:
http://www.debsandco.com/jacir.html
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/oneground/emily.jacir.html
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/islam/eng/2003/01/shatat/img-03.html
http://www.thing.net/~johnmenick/writing/jacir.html
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article895.shtml
http://www.thejewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=1543
http://www.mediachannel.org/arts/perspectives/eyestorm/index.shtml
http://www.submerge-nbg-ny.org
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/robinson/robinson4-14-03.asp
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