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Born in Dearborn, Michigan
Currently lives in Brooklyn, NY
bio
Jackie
Salloum is a multimedia artist and filmmaker who draws inspiration from
the humble perseverance of her family’s struggle in their homeland,
Palestine, and as immigrants in the US. Her work has been widely exhibited
nationally and internationally in art galleries, museums and film festivals.
Things weren’t always this way, though. Born and raised in suburban
Michigan, Salloum learned English in school, speaking only Arabic at home.
Feeling forever the foreigner, and with the constant exposure to only
negative images of Arabs in the news and Hollywood films, she grew up
feeling ashamed of being an Arab. But her feelings soon reversed in her
teens… with a twist of candy-coated vengeance.
Salloum began
her current project, Slingshot Hip Hop, a feature-length documentary chronicling
the lives of Palestinian rappers in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, in
the summer of 2003. During this same period, she completed Planet of the
Arabs, a video art critique of Hollywood’s representation of Arabs
and Muslims that went on to garner her the "Best Editor" award
at the Cinematexas film festival and a 2005 Sundance Film Festival official
selection. The anxiously anticipated Slingshot Hip Hop, now in post-production,
has already brought the voices of her young subjects to concert audiences
in Amsterdam, Ireland, New York City, and San Francisco and to the tens
of thousands of people who have watched the trailer on-line.
education
2003 MFA. New York University, New York.
selected exhibitions
2007
Museum
of Contemporary Art Taipei Taipei,
Taiwan
Naked Life
Palazzo
Papesse Centre for Contemporary Art, Sienna,
Italy
SYSTEM
ERROR: WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING
Freud
Museum,
London,
UK
PARANOIA
LUXE
Gallery, New
York, NY
The Nightly News
2006
49th
International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Leipzig,
Germany
A
Thousand And One Images
- Arab Documentary Film on the Rise
Sinimia Madrid
& Soria. Spain
RIPIT
BIRLIN Berlin,
Germany
Center
For Book Arts
New York, NY No More Drama
Nova
Art Fair
Chicago,
IL
PARANOIA
exhibit
on tour through UK (Freud Museum,London. Focal Point Gallery, Southend.
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds.)
Hip
Hop Film Festival, Santa Monica CA
Optica Festival, Asturias, Spain. International Encounters of
Video-Art, Photography and Experimental Film
Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Spain. Copilandia
2005
Sundance
Film Festival Park
City, Utah
Transmediale05 Berlin,
Germany International Media Art Festival Berlin
!f Istanbul Film Festival
Istanbul,
Turkey
Tekfestival Rome,
Italy
National
Geographic Film Festival All
Roads Los Angeles, CA, Washington D.C.
MoniqueMeloche Gallery Chicago,
IL Things Fall Apart
Ovni
2005 Resistances Barcelona,
Spain
Void
Gallery Derry, Ireland Solo Show
New
York Underground Film Festival NY,
NY
Toronto Arab Film Festival
Toronto, Canada
London
Palestinian Film Festival
London, Canada
Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Portland, OR
IIFF
Indianapolis, IN
CinemaParadise
Honolulu, Hawaii
New Orleans International Human
Rights Film Festival, New Orleans, LA
Philadelphia
Palestine Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Santa
Fe Film Festival
Santa
Fe, NM
2004
Bronx
Museum, NY. Music/Video
Wallspace Gallery,
NY, NY. Holiday Shopping Show
Samson Projects, Boston,
MA. Notorious Impropriety
Cinematexas
Festival, Austin, TX.
Millais Gallery, Southampton,
England. Art In The Age Of Terrorism
Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles,
CA. How Can You Resist
Artists Space, New
York, NY. Salad Days
Chicago
Palestinian Film Festival 2004,Chicago, IL.
Israeli Center
for Digital Art. Helon, Israel. Hilchot Shchenim - Chapter
B
Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Video X: 10 years of video with Momenta Art
SOAS Film Festival, London, England.
Palestinian Film Festival,
Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Gaza and Nazareth. Dreams
of a Nation
Seattle Arab and Iranian
Film Festival,
Seattle, WA.
2003
Batofar,
Paris, France. Downtown
Digitalia NYC
Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY Holiday Shopping Show
Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse, Normandy, France.
Vidéo Art Plastique
7th Annual Arab Film Festival,
San Francisco, CA. Cinemayyat
Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY. Solo Exhibition.
Havana Biennial, Cuba.
ATA, San Francisco, CA. Other Cinema. Baghdad
by the Bay.
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN. Focus Group
The Cube Microplex, London, England. Making the Media by Night.
Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Focus Group
Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Disruption. Two Person
Exhibition.
Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY. Photography for People; For Us.
MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE. Touring exhibition
Airstream trailer from April-November 2003 across North America &
Canada.
ATA, San Francisco, CA. Other Cinema. CIA Secrecy.
Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland. Settlement
Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York. College Art Association
MFA Exhibition.
Violet Café, New York. ISM Gala
80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, NY. MFA Exhibition.
Solo Exhibition.
ATA, San Francisco, CA. Girls On Film.
Brecht Forum, New York. Images of Resistance.
2002
Palace Theater, Hollywood, CA. ArtSpeaks Against the War.
Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles,
CA. TV or NOT TV.
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