Artist-in-Residence: Jude Abu Zaineh
MSVU Art Gallery is pleased to welcome artist-in-residence Jude Abu Zaineh to Halifax, March 10th – 14th! While in residence, Jude will work with Chartwells, MSVU’s food service provider, and the MSVU bio lab to connect with the local community and create elements for new work to be included in her upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery in September 2025. Join us on March 12th for a Palestinian lunch buffet hosted by Jude and Chartwells to meet the artist and learn more about her practice. Learn more: https://www.msvuart.ca/programs/meet-greet-jude-abu-zaineh/
MSVU Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Arts Nova Scotia.
About the Artist:
Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art, food, science, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture, displacement, storytelling, diaspora, and belonging, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. She examines ideals of home and community influenced by her childhood and upbringing in Southwest Asia.
Abu Zaineh is the recipient of several awards including, the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, and was one of the first selected artists to participate in a collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada). She has presented her works at Ireland Glass Biennale; Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta; Cultivamos Cultura, São Luis, Portugal; Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico; SVA, NYC, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, USA; Forest City Gallery, London, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France; Museum London, Canada; Museum of Glass, Washington, USA, and more.
Her work has been featured in VICE Arabia, PBS, NPR, across CBC Canada platforms, Canadian Art magazine, NEUES GLAS-NEW GLASS: art & architecture magazines, and on the cover of fuse: the Museum of Glass Magazine.
Abu Zaineh’s works can be found in the permanent collections of The Museum of Glass (USA), Art Windsor-Essex (Canada), The City of Windsor’s Public Art Commission (Canada), as well as private collections internationally.
She received an MFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA), where she was an RPI Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences Fellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow.
She maintains an active studio practice between upstate NY, USA and southern Ontario, Canada.
