Jumana Emil Abboud
Workshop Facilitator
London
Jumana Emil Abboud’s creative practice re-spirits storytelling processes in spoken word, drawing, video, and Water Diviners gatherings – where stories are living entities, entangled in water and relation, connecting place and possibility.
Exhibitions over the last two decades include Cample Line (2023), TAVROS (2022), documenta 15 (2022), the Jerusalem Show (2009, 2018), Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation (2017), Bildmuseet (2017), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2016), in addition to the Biennales of Diriyah (2024), Sydney (2022), Venice (2009, 2015), and Sharjah (2005, 2011).
Recognitions include the Jameel Fellowship at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in collaboration with the International Glass and Visual Arts Research Centre (Cirva), Marseille (2024-2025), and is shortlisted for the Artes Mundi 11 prize (2025-2026).
Abboud is currently completing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.