Emily Jacir
Palestinian-American artist and filmmaker
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| 2024 | Served as a Herb Alpert Award Panelist in the Visual Arts in the USA |
| 2024 | Awarded the Minimum Prize from Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy. |
| 2023 | Received an American Academy Arts and Letters Award in Art from Arts and Letters Awards in New York. |
| 2023 | Awarded an honorary doctorate in art and design by the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. |
| February 2023 | Collaborated with artist Baha Hilo on the 'Preserve' project, focusing on preserving olive terraces at Dar Jacir in Bethlehem, supported by the Center for Human Rights and the Arts. |
| 2022 | Jury member for Platform Commissions at EVA International in Ireland |
| 2021 | Received the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture |
| 2021 | Served as a Herb Alpert Award Panelist in the Visual Arts in the USA |
| 2020 | Received the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture |
| 2020 | Served on the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Jury in Italy (part of a multi-year commitment from 2016-2020) |
| 2019 | Served on the 35th International Jury for Kurzfilm Hamburg in Germany |
| 2019 | Received the UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture |
| 2019 | Delivered the Edward Said Memorial Lecture at Princeton University, presenting her work 'Where We Come From'. |
| 2018 | Won the 'Curator of the Young Artist of the Year' award from the A.M. Qattan Foundation. |
| 2017 | Served as a Herb Alpert Award Panelist in the Visual Arts in the USA |
| 2017 | Jury member for the Sunbird Award Competition for Short Narrative Films at the Days of Cinema Festival in Ramallah |
| 2015 | Selected as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize Fellow in Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome. |
| 2014 | Served as a Juror for Visions du Reel Festival International de Cinema in Nyon |
| 2013 | Served on the International Jury for Lampedusa InFestival V Edition, a film festival in Lampedusa, Italy |
| 2012 | Served on the Berlinale Shorts Film Jury in Germany |
| 2012 | Received the Cda-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production in Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2012 | Served on the CinemaXXI Jury at the Rome Film Festival in Italy |
| 2011 | Awarded the Visual Arts Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. |
| 2011 | Led the first year of the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program in Beirut. |
| 2010 | Served as a Juror for the A.M. Qattan Young Artist Award in Ramallah |
| 2010 | Served on the founding year of the Curricular Committee for Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program. |
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