Emily Jacir

Emily Jacir (born 1970 in Bethlehem, West Bank ) is a Palestinian- American artist. She works conceptually and is so, Film - Sound, known equally as a painter, photographer, video and installation artist as. My work revolves around the story of the expulsion, oppression and killing of Palestinians.

Life and work

Jacir was born in 1970 in Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. She grew up in Saudi Arabia and attended a high school in Rome. At the University of Dallas in Irving (Texas ) received a BA degree, at the Memphis College of Art in Memphis (Tennessee ), the Master of Fine Arts ( MFA). Since 1999 lives and works Jacir, as far as the Palestinian territory is not closed off, alternately in Ramallah (including working at the University of Bir Zait ) and in New York City.

Since 1994, Jacir had a variety of exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum and the MoMA in New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2007, she took the world with material for a movie, " a documentary in the form of an installation, " about the murder to Wael Zwaiter, including part in the Venice Biennale, where he was awarded a Golden Lion. 2008 Jacir the received 100,000 U.S. $ doped Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Awards (selection)

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