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Jumana Emil Abboud is an artist living and working in Jerusalem and London. Abboud uses drawing, video, performance, objects and text to navigate themes of memory, loss and resilience. She is interested in oral histories; the investigation of personal and collective mythologies and their re-telling. Abboud has exhibited in numerous venues over the last two decades including Qalandiya International, the Venice, Istanbul, and Sharjah Biennials; Hayward Project Space (London); The Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center and The A.M.Qattan Foundation (Ramallah); Fattoush Gallery (Haifa); Darat Al Funun—The Khalid Shoman Foundation (Amman); Ashkal Alwan (Beirut); Kunstraum Gallery (London); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead); Bildmuseum (Umeå); Tate Modern (London); Seoul Museum of Art; and The Palestinian Museum (Birzeit). She has participated in artist residencies with Villa Vassillief (Paris); Delfina Foundation (London); Cove Park (Glasgow); AiT (Tokyo); and in Aarau Switzerland. She published a book with Black Dog Press entitled In aching agony & longing I wait for you by the Spring of Thieves, edited by Lara Khaldi (2018). She has been awarded the Pernod Ricard Fellowship, Bétonsalon (2020), and the Arab Fund for Art & Culture grant (2017). She is currently a PhD candidate at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.