Jananne Al-Ani

Jananne Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. She is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London, and lives and works in London.[1]

Exhibitions

Al-Ani has had solo shows at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (2014); Beirut Art Center, Lebanon (2013);[2] Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC (2012);[3] Darat al Funun, Amman (2010); Tate Britain, London (2005);[4] and the Imperial War Museum,[5] London (1999). Selected group exhibitions and screenings include: My Sister Who Travels, Mosaic Rooms, London (2014); Concrete, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2014); Memory Material: Jananne Al-Ani & Stéphanie Saadé, Akinci Gallery Amsterdam (2014); Assembly: A survey of recent artists’ film and video in Britain 2008–2013, Tate Britain, London (2014); She Who Tells a Story, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2013); Mom, Am I Barbarian? 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013);[6] Re:emerge, Towards a New Cultural Cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013);[7] Before the Deluge, CaixaForum, Barcelona and Madrid (2012-2013); all our relations, the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012);[8] Arab Express: the Latest Art from the Arab World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2012); Topographies de la Guerre, Le Bal, Paris (2011); The Future of a Promise, Magazzini del Sale, 54th Venice Biennale (2011); Women War Artists, Imperial War Museum, London (2011); Closer, Beirut Art Center (2009); The Screen-Eye or the New Image: 100 Videos to Rethink the World, Casino Luxembourg (2007); and Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2006). She has also co-curated exhibitions including Veil (2003/4) and Fair Play (2001/2).

Awards

The recipient of many awards including the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (2011);[9] the East International Award (2001); and the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award (1996), her work can be found in several collections among them the Tate Gallery and Arts Council England,[10] London; the Pompidou Centre and Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Museum Moderner Kunst (mumok), Vienna; and Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman.

Publications

In 2005, Film and Video Umbrella [11] published a monograph focusing on her moving image work. Recent publications featuring her work include In Ramallah, Running (Guy Mannes-Abbott and Samar Martha, Black Dog, 2012); Footnote to a Project* (Sharmini Pereira, Abraaj Capital Art Prize, 2011); Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism (Jane Rendell, I.B.Tauris, 2011); Oil and Sugar: Contemporary Art and Islamic Culture (Glenn Lowry, ICC at the ROM, 2009); Contemporary British Women Artists: in their own words (Rebecca Fortnum, I.B.Tauris, 2007); and Home Works (Christine Tohme and Mona Abu Rayyan, Ashkal Alwan, 2003).

Notes

  1. ↑ Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation
  2. ↑ Beirut Art Center
  3. ↑ Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution
  4. ↑ Art Now, Tate Britain
  5. ↑ Imperial War Museum
  6. ↑ 13th Istanbul Biennial
  7. ↑ Sharjah Biennial 11
  8. ↑ 18th Biennale of Sydney
  9. ↑ Abraaj Capital Art Prize
  10. ↑ Arts Council Collection
  11. ↑ Film & Video Umbrella

References

Lloyd, Fran (1999). Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the present. London: WAL Women's Art Library. ISBN 1860645992.

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