Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir is an artist, writer and filmmaker whose work involves a variety of strategies including film, photography, sculpture, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing and sound, where she explores histories of colonisation, exchange, questions of translation, transformation, resistance and movement. She has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and is deeply committed to creating alternative spaces for knowledge production. She directs the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir Research Center for Art and Research in Bethlehem, which she co-founded. She received the Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Prince Claus Award (2007), the Herb Alpert Award (2011) and the Rome Prize (2015). She has also displayed her production in DOCUMENTA (13) (2012), in several biennials, at the New York Guggenheim and MoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.