Emily Jacir Biography 1970 Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Lives and works in Ramallah and New York 1992 BA in Fine Art, University of Dallas, Irving, Texas, USA 1994 MFA studies, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, USA 1998 - 1999 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA Selected Exhibitions 2008 The object quality of the problem (on the space of Palestine/Israel), The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2008 Mediterranee II, Carre d’Art, Nimes 2008 Collection Video & Films; Isabelle & Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany 2008 Disputed Territories: Emily Jacir, A Space Gallery, Toronto (solo) 2007 Emily Jacir, Villa Merkel, Galerien Der Stadt Esslingen Am Neckar, Germany (solo) 2007 Emily Jacir, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (solo) 2007 Emily Jacir, Alberto Peola, Torino (solo) 2007 Unbound, Contemporary Art Plaform, London 2007 La Biennale di Venezia, Italy 2007 Bound, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool 2007 Recognise, Contemporary Art Platform, London 2007 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 2006 Now, Here, Over There, Fonds regional d’art contemporain de Lorraine 2006 Re: location, Alexander and Bonin, New York 2006 Venice-Instanbul, Instanbul Modern, Instanbul, Turkey 2006 Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney 2006 Sincerity, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2006 When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York 2006 Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 2006 Now Voyager, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 2006 Made in Palestine, touring exhibition, Bridge Gallery, New York 2006 The Only Book, The Center for Book Arts, New York 2006 The Wall & the Check Points, The Khalid Shoman Foundation - Darat il Funun, Amman, Jordan 2006 Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2006 Taking place…Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, DK 2006 Slow Revolution, The Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Une vision du monde - la collection video d’Isabelle et Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, La Maison Rouge, Paris (cat.) 2005 Emily Jacir, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. (solo) 2005 Where We Come From, The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, Washington D.C. (solo) 2005 accumulations, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY (solo) 2005 This May Be What Parallel Looks Like, video screening, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY 2005 Episode 2 [To Lose without Being a Loser] and Episode 3 [Democracies], Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania 2005 General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, S. Francisco, California 2005 Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver 2005 EindhovenIstanbul, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (cat.) 2005 In the Poem about Love you don't write the word Love, CCA, Glasgow 2005 In absentia: Collective Contemporary Art Exhibition, Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest 2005 Made in Palestine, touring exhibition, T.W. Wood Gallery and Arts Center, Montpellier 2005 Made in Palestine, touring exhibition, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco 2005 Mirage, Alexander and Bonin, New York 2005 Getting Emotional, ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 2005 Always a little further, Arsenale , 51 Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venice, Italy 2005 HOME, Cork, Ireland 2005 Mediterranean Encounters, Parco Orcynus Orca, Messina; Castle of Scilla, Reggio Calabria 2005 7th Sharjah International Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 2005 Flight 405, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon. 2005 Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art, London (cat.) 2005 Desenhos: A-Z, [Drawings: A-Z], Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madeira 2005 The Art of Aggression: Iraqi Stories and Other Tales, Reynolds Gallery, Inc., Richmond, VA 2005 Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA 2004 'Wherever I Am', Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK 2004 ---, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany 2004 Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands 2004 The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, Palestine 2004 Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 2004 'Cover Girl: The Female Body and Islam in Contemporary Art', ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA 2004 'Neither Here Nor There: Video Artists Navigate Cultural Displacement', Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2004 '5th Gwangju Bienniale', Joongoe Park, Gwangju, Republic of Korea 2004 'PhotoEspa?a 2004', Madrid, Spain 2003 - 2004 'Where We Come From', Nuova Icona, Venezia, Italy and Debs & Co., New York, USA 2003 Belongings, O-K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Upper Austria 2003 'Los Angeles International Art Biennial Invitational', Frumkin Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, USA and Al Ma’Mal Foundation, Jerusalem, 2003 '8th Istanbul Biennale', Istanbul, Turkey 2003 'Cynical Culture', Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany 2003 'VEIL', Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), Touring Exhibition; Liverpool, Walsall, Oxford and Stockholm 2000 'From Paris to Riyadh (Drawings for my mother)', University Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, USA Literature 2008 Penelope Curtis, ‘The object quality of the problem’, The Henry Moore Institute (cat.) 2008 Kirsty Bell, ‘Another Country’, Frieze, April (ill.) 2008 Portfolio; Reinvent the wheel, March 2008 Daniela Mett, ‘Stimmen im Schrank’, Weltkunst online, 22 February 2008 Nicole Busing and Heiko Klaas, ‘Poesie und Irritationen im Alltag’, Nordsee Zeitung, 30 January 2008 Jens Ronnau, ’Audiovisuelle Kost zwischen Dreiecksbeziehung und Wiedergeburt’, Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, 19 January 2007 Ossian Ward, ‘Critics Choice’, Time Out, August 29th – 4th September 2007 http://universes-in-universe.org, October 2007 www.kunstmuseumsg.ch, September 2007 Carola Serminato, ‘Emily Jacir’, Espoarte, no. 46, 4th May 2007 Alberto Peola, ‘Emily Jacir’, Flash Art, no 263, 4th May 2007 ‘Emily Jacir’, Futuro Contemporary Art, 3rd April 2007 Barbara Reale, ‘Emily Jacir’, Exibart.com 2007 Lisa Parola, ‘Quel concerto negato per Emily e un simbolo’, La Stampa, TorinoSette, 9th February 2006 Rasha Salti, 'Emily Jacir', Zones of Contact - 2006 Biennale of Sydney (cat.) (ill.) 2006 Demos, T.J. "Life Full of Holes." Grey Room 24, Summer 2006 Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, New Art For A New Middle East, Art and Auction, March 2006 Cotter, Holland. "Made in Palestine." The New York Times, March 2006 Emily Jacir’, Une Vision du Monde la Collection Video d’Isabelle et Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, February (cat.) (ill.) 2006 Neit Mulholland, ‘In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love’, ArtReview, February 2005 Emily Jacir, Where We Come From, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas 2005 Martin Coomer, Emily Jacir – Anthony Reynolds Gallery, June 29, 2005 2005 Kerryn Greenberg, Eva Meyer Hermann, Istanbul-Eindhoven, Vanabbemuseum 2005 Frances Richard, “Emily Jacir”, ArtForum, May 2005 Lori Waxman, “Emily Jacir”, www.artforum.com 2005 Alejandra Aguado, “Do Not Interrupt Your Activities”, Royal College of Art Galleries 2004 Gilane Tawadros, “Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation”, InIva, London 2004 Anna Kafetsi, “Transcultures” The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 2004 Francesco Bonami, “Non Toccare La Donna Bianca”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudendo, Turin 2004 Andrew Nairne and Suzanne Cotter, “Wherever I Am”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 2004 Stella Rollig; John Menick; Edward Said; Christian Kravagna, “Emily Jacir: belongings”, Folio Verlag Wien 2004 Caroline Lagnado, “Whitney Biennial well worth the visit”, Tufts Daily, April 8 2004 Editors, “Emily Jacir”, This Much is Certain , Catalogue from the Royal College of Art, March to April 2004 Tyler Green, “Hit the Road, Whitney”, Wall Street Journal-Editorial page, March 30 2004 Jerry Saltz, “The O.K. Corral”, The Village Voice, March 15, 2004. 2004 Michael Kimmelman, “Touching all bases at the Biennial”, New York Times, March 12 2004 Celia McGee, “Whitney Sticks its Thumb Out”, New York Daily News, March 11, 2004. 2004 Holland Cotter, “Duck! It’s Whitney Biennial Season Again”, New York Times, March 7 2004 Kate Ledogar, “Screaming from the Gallery: Road Trip!”, Boston Weekly Dig, March 2004 Karen Rosenberg, “Biennial Favorites,” New York Magazine, p. 38, March 1 2004 Tom Vanderbilt, “Emily Jacir,” Artforum, p.140 –141, February 2004 Martin Sturm, et al., Emily Jacir: belongings Exhibition Catalog, January 2003 Emily Jacir: belongings. Arbeiten/Works 1998-2003, O-K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria 2003 Emily Jacir (im)mobility, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem 2003 T.J. Demos, “Desire in Diaspora: Emily Jacir,” Art Journal, vol. 62, no. 4 (Winter 2003), pp.68-80 2003 Tory Dent, “Emily Jacir”, PARACHUTE, 012, Fall 2003 Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, p. 32-33, November, Vol. XXII, No.9. 2003 Contemporary Art from the Islamic World, Online Magazine, 4th Issue, October, 22 2003 Eleanor Heartney, “Emily Jacir at Debs & Co.,” Art in America, October 2003 Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Peace Through Art, ‘Made in Palestine,” Humanizes the Middle East Conflict,” The Houston Press, July and August 2003 Editors, “So Much in a Simple Request,” The Los Angeles Times, July 18 2003 Tom Breidenbach, “Emily Jacir- Debs & Co,” Artforum, Summer 2003 Editors, “Emily Jacir Where We Come from Installation at the 8th Istanbul Biennial 2003 Kirsten Butler, “Enter the Ghost, Exit the Ghost, Re-enter the Ghost,” Empire/State Catalog 2003 Edward Said, “Emily Jacir”, Grand Street, Issue 72, Fall 2003 Holly Myers, “So Much in a Simple Request,” L.A. Times, July 18 2003 Louise Roug, “The Talking Pictures,” The Los Angeles Times (Calendar Weekend), July 10 2003 Holland Cotter, “Empire/State-Artists Engaging Globalization,” The New York Times, July 5 2003 Laura Auricchio, “Homeland,” Time Out New York, June 19-26 2003 Paul Bass,“Where We’re Going”, The New Haven Advocate, June 19 2003 Eugenie Tsai, “Emily Jacir, ‘Where We Come From’,” Time Out New York, May 8-15 2003 Editors, “Emily Jacir”, The New Yorker, May 12 2003 Holland Cotter, “Emily Jacir,” The New York Times, May 9th 2003 Kim Levin, “Emily Jacir,” The Village Voice, Shortlist, April 23-29 2003 Kyle MacMillan, “Timely exhibit of Arab works offers new view of raging political debate,” The Denver Post, February 28 2002 Rebecca Faulkner, “Marked Space,” 5, Rebirth 2002 Benjamin Young, “In Translation,” Social Sectors Catalog, Vienna 2002 Regina Urban, “New York im Untergrund,” Nurnberger, April 11 2002 Uma, “Vom Kunstbunker zu den Konfliktherden der Welt,” Abendzeitung, April 11 2002 Matthew McAllester, “Seeking Art Amid the Chaos,” Newsday, April 4, 2002 2002 Linda Yablonsky, “Unjustified,” Time Out New York, February 14-21 2001 Editors, “Emily Jacir”, Fisuras de la Cultura Contemporanea, Summer 2001 Editors, “My America (I am still here),” Economies/Exchanges, n.paradoxa, vol.8, July 2001 Oz Shelach, "Ohel Yizkor for the Nakba," Ha'aretz, May 18 2001 Jacqueline S. Stoeckler, "Exiles and Cosmopolitans," Afterimage, vol. 28, Jan./Feb 2000 - 2001 Herkenhoff, “Emily Jacir,” P.S.1 Studio Program Catalog 2000 Carlos Basualdo, “A Worthless Question, Many Invaluable Answers,” Moderna Galerija 2000 Carrie Lambert, “Pointing at P.S.1,” Greater New York Writer’s ProjectBrian Holmes, "Carnival in the Eye of the Storm:Kosov@,” Afterimage, September/October 2000 Susan Canning, "Greater New York Bucks the Biennial," Art Papers, July/August 2000 Colwell Carol, DWCA 1995 National Juried Exhibition Catalog, Irving Art Center, Irving, TX. 2000 Rebecca Faulkner, "Traveling Towards (Dis)appearance: A Response to Emily Jacir's Drawings," Barnard Feminist Art Conference and Greater New York Catalog 2000 Delinda C. Hanley, “Made in Palestine: A Stirring Exhibit Rocks Houston and Hits the Road”