jude Abu zaineh

Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator-researcher working across art, food, science, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture, displacement, storytelling, diaspora, and belonging. She examines ideals of home and community influenced by her childhood and upbringing in Southwest Asia.

Abu Zaineh is the recipient of several awards including 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 (Canada). She has presented her works at Ireland Glass Biennale; Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta; 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; Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France; Museum London, Canada; Museum of Glass, Washington, USA, and more.

Her work has been featured in VICE Arabia, PBS, NPR, across CBC Canada platforms, American Craft,Canadian Art magazine, NEUES GLAS-NEW GLASS: art & architecture magazines, C Magazine, and on the cover of fuse: the Museum of Glass Magazine.

She received an MFA from the University of Windsor (Canada) and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY, USA), where she was an RPI Humanities, Arts, & Social SciencesFellow and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow.