Jude Abu Zaineh

Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker. Her practice employs art, food, and technology to investigate meanings of culture, displacement, diaspora, and belonging. She examines ideals of home and community while working to develop aesthetics rooted in her childhood and upbringing in the Middle East. Abu Zaineh is the recipient of the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, and was one of the first selected artists to participate in a collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto. She has presented her work at a number of cultural institutions, including Cultivamos Cultura, São Luis, Portugal; Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico; SVA, NYC, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, USA; Forest City Gallery, London, Canada; Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada; 2023 Ireland Glass Biennale; Museum of Glass, Washington, USA; and Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France. Forthcoming works showing at Museum London x Media City Film Festival, London, Canada; and Artcite, Windsor, Canada. Abu Zaineh received an MFA from the University of Windsor, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a RPI HASS Fellow and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow.  She maintains an active studio practice between upstate NY, USA, and Windsor-Essex, Canada