Jumana Emil Abboud

Palestinian-Canadian artist Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1971) is currently based between Jerusalem and London where she is completing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her practice draws on folklore, waterlore, mythmaking and storytelling which harness the heritage of interconnectedness. Working in spoken-word performance, video, walking, journaling, drawing, and collaborative Water Divining workshops, Abboud’s practice addresses ways in which stories can survive past dispossession. 

Credit: B&W portrait of Jumana Emil Abboud, taken at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, 2024. Photography - Ai Iwane

Her work has been presented at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Cample Line, Tavros Athens, Documenta, Jameel Arts Centre, Seoul Museum of Art – SeMA, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, the Khaled Shoman Foundation Darat al Funun, at Biennales in Lyon, Sharjah, Venice, Istanbul, and Sydney, at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Bildmuseum among others


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