Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir (born 1970 in Bethlehem , West Bank ) is a Palestinian- American artist. She works conceptually and has become known as a painter, photographer, film, sound, video and installation artist . Her work revolves around the history of the displacement , oppression and killing of Palestinians .

life and work

Jacir was born in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 1970. She grew up in Saudi Arabia and attended high school in Rome . She obtained a BA from the University of Dallas in Irving (Texas) and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Memphis College of Art in Memphis (Tennessee ). Since 1999 Jacir has lived and worked, as long as the Palestinian Autonomous Area is not cordoned off, alternately in Ramallah ( working at the University of Bir Zait , among others ) and in New York City .

Since 1994 Jacir has had a variety of exhibitions around the world, including at the Whitney Museum and MoMA in New York and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . In 2007 she took part with Material for a Film , "a documentary film in the form of an installation" about the murder of Wael Zwaiter , a. a. participated in the Biennale di Venezia and was awarded a Golden Lion. In 2008 Jacir was awarded the US $ 100,000 Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation .

Awards (selection)

• 2007: Prince Claus Prize
• 2007: Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale
• 2008: Hugo Boss Prize

literature

• belongings. Works 1998–2003 , Folio-Verlag, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85256-265-1
• Emily Jacir (exhibition catalog), Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-939738-57-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Emily Jacir in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emily Jacir on the-artists.org ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 13, 2009) 
2. ↑ Ms Emily Jacir on the Unesco portal (accessed January 13, 2009)
3. ↑ Emily Jacir: Artist at the Institute for Middle East Understanding ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 13, 2009) 
4. ↑ 2007 Prince Claus Award: Emily Jacir, Palestine ( Memento from January 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Hugo Boss Prize 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed January 14, 2009)