Emily Jacir is an artist and filmmaker who is primarily concerned with transformation, questions of translation, resistance, and silenced historical narratives. Her work investigates personal and collective movement through public space and its implications for the physical and social experience of trans-Mediterranean space and time. Jacir is the recipient of awards including a Golden Lion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, a Prince Claus Award, the Hugo Boss Prize, and the Herb Alpert Award. Jacir’s works have been in important group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Documenta 13; multiple editions of the Venice Biennale; 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil; 15th Biennale of Sydney ; Sharjah Biennial 7; the 2004 Whitney Biennial; and the 8th Istanbul Biennial. Jacir’s recent solo exhibitions include presentations at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Darat il Funun, Amman; Beirut Art Center; and Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Participating units at UC Berkeley: Art Practice, Regents' Lectureship Program