Emily Jacir
is an artist and educator active in the Mediterranean, and works in Bethlehem and Rome. Her work focuses on themes of transformation, translation, resistance, and the exploration of silenced historical narratives. She uses a wide range of media and methodologies including film, video, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and archival research to investigate personal and collective movement through public space and its implications for the physical and social experience of trans-mediterranean space and time. Jacir has been honored for her work internationally, including a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007), the Hugo Boss Prize at the Guggenheim Museum (2008), the Andrew W. Mellon Rome Prize Fellowship (2015), an honorary doctorate from NCAD, Dublin (2023), and an American Academy of Arts and Letters prize (2023). Jacir has been actively involved in education in Palestine since 2000 and is deeply invested in creating alternative spaces for knowledge production internationally. She is the founder of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem, fostering alternative pedagogic and artistic practices.