Jumana Manna

American-born Palestinian artist (born 1987)

Jumana Manna

جمانة مناع

Born| 1987 (age 37–38)

Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

Education| Oslo National Academy of the Arts,
California Institute of the Arts
Occupation| Visual artist
Known for| Installation art, film

Jumana Manna (Arabic: جمانة مناع; born 1987) is a Palestinian visual artist. Born in the United States, she lived in Jerusalem and Oslo and now resides in Berlin. [1][2][3] She holds U.S. and Israeli citizenship. [4]

A multidisciplinary visual artist, Manna works in multiple mediums, including installation art and film. Manna has produced work featured at the Museum of Modern Art,[5] MoMA PS1,[6][7][8] The Moving Museum,[9] the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen,[2][10] and the Wexner Center for the Arts.[11]

## Early life and education

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Manna was born in 1987, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.[6] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and a Master of Arts degree in aesthetics and politics at the California Institute of the Arts.[12]

## Career

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Manna's work explores the effects of preservation practices in the fields of agriculture, science and law.[13][14]

Manna's 2015 film A Magical Substance Flows Into Me focuses on Robert Lachmann's quest to create an archive of "oriental music" in Jerusalem.[5] The Museum of Modern Art screened A Magical Substance Flows Into Me in 2022.[5]

In 2017, Manna released her second film, Wild Relatives, which focused on the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway and its relationship with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and ICARDA's stored seeds from the Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley amidst the backdrop of the Syrian Revolution.[15]

In 2021, her exhibition “Thirty Plumbers in the Belly" was on display at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.[2][10]

In 2022, Manna's film Foragers was featured in the Toronto Biennial of Art exhibition “What Water Knows, the Land Remembers.”[16][17] Foragers examines how Israel's declaration that za'atar and akkoub are protected species impacted Palestinians.[16][17]

From September 2022 to August 2023, Manna had her first major American museum exhibition titled "Break, Take, Erase, Tally," at MoMA PS1.[6][7][8] The exhibition was then brought to be displayed at the Wexner Center for the Arts.[11]

In 2024, Manna exhibited her film Foragers at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea.[18]

## References

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1. ^ "Jumana Manna Artist Bio". Toronto Biennial of Art. Retrieved 2023-10-29.
2. ^ a b c "Jumana Manna | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
3. ^ "Jumana Manna". Liverpool Biennial. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
4. ^ Art Forum
5. ^ a b c "Jumana Manna's A Magical Substance Flows into Me | Magazine | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
6. ^ a b c Heinrich, Will (2022-09-29). "In Jumana Manna's Film, a Wild Plant Crosses the Political Line". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
7. ^ a b Hawa, Kaleem (2022-11-10). "Jumana Manna's Peasant Politics". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
8. ^ a b "Jumana Manna: Break, Take Erase, Tally | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
9. ^ Baumgardner, Julie (2014-08-06). "A Nomadic Museum Takes Up Temporary Residence in Istanbul". T Magazine. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
10. ^ a b Chan, Hera (23 August 2021). "Jumana Manna at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA)". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
11. ^ a b "Jumana Manna: Break, Take, Erase, Tally | Wexner Center for the Arts". wexarts.org. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
12. ^ "Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on the art of Jumana Manna". www.artforum.com. October 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
13. ^ "Jumana Manna". MoMA PS1. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
14. ^ Hochberg, Gil (1 May 2018). "Archival Afterlives in a Conflict Zone: Animating the Past in Jumana Manna's Cinematic Fables of Pre-1948 Palestine". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 38 (1). doi:10.1215/1089201x-4389955. S2CID 149558070 – via 30–42.
15. ^ Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen (30 April 2018). "Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Jumana Manna's Wild Relatives (2017)". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
16. ^ a b Dayal, Mira (2022-08-03). "Prism of Relations: the 2022 Toronto Biennial". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
17. ^ a b Simon, Alissa (2022-04-12). "'Foragers' Review: Grassroots Filmmaking in More Ways Than One". Variety. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
18. ^ Sharma, Manu (August 18, 2024). "MMCA Seoul's film programme explores our relationship to nature". Stir World. Retrieved March 15, 2024.

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