1. Emily Jacir is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker based in the Bethlehem, Palestine.
15 Facts About Emily Jacir
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Emily Jacir grew up in Saudi Arabia and attended high school in Italy.
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Emily Jacir graduated with a degree in art from the University of Dallas, Memphis College of Art.
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Emily Jacir has exhibited throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London, and Linz.
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Active in the building of Ramallah's art scene since 1999, Emily Jacir has worked with the AM Qattan Foundation, Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art and the Sakakini Cultural Center.
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Emily Jacir has been involved in projects and events such as Birzeit University's Virtual Art Gallery.
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Emily Jacir founded and curated the first International Video Festival in Ramallah in 2002.
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Emily Jacir curated a selection of shorts, Palestinian Revolution Cinema, which went on tour in 2007.
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Emily Jacir has worked as a full-time professor at the International Academy of Art Palestine since it opened in 2006 and served on its academic board from 2006 through 2012.
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Emily Jacir led the first year of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program in Beirut and created the curriculum and programming after serving on the founding year of the Curricular Committee from 2010 to 2011.
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Emily Jacir is the founding director of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in her family home in Bethlehem, which serves as both a community centre and a contemporary art space.
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In February 2023, Emily Jacir collaborated with artist Baha Hilo, a native Palestinian and Sociology graduate of Birzeit University, to create his project "Preserve", which focuses on the preservation and repair of the olive terraces at Dar Emily Jacir, an arts and education center in Bethlehem.
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Emily Jacir says she was filming her feet with a video camera at a checkpoint that day.
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In 2009, Emily Jacir participated in the Venice Biennale in the Palestinian Pavilion.
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Emily Jacir created a site-specific public project to take place in Venice during the Biennale.