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 Emily
Jacir was born in 1970 and arrived to New York in 1998. She has
had solo exhibitions at the University Gallery in Sewanee, TN
(2000) and at SPACES in Cleveland, OH (1999) and her work has
been featured in exhibitions at the Moderna Gallerja in
Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000), at the Whitney Independent Open
Studios, NY (1999), at the Contemporary Art Center of Fort
Worth, TX (1997), and at YYZ Artists Outlet in Toronto, Canada
(1996).
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.
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