Joyce Joumaa


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Joyce Joumaa is a video artist and writer based between Beirut and Amsterdam. After growing up in Lebanon, she pursued a BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her work focuses on microhistories within Lebanon as a way to understand how past structures inform the present moment. Central to her practice is an interest towards the political charge inscribed in spaces and the social psychology that unfolds out of this tension.

Her work has been shown at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, FOFA Gallery, Dazibao and at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She was a finalist for the 2023 Prix Pierre Ayot and the recipient of the 2023 Bourse Plein-Sud. In 2022 she was the recipient of the Emerging Curator Residency at the CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture. Her four-channel video installation Memory Contours was commissioned for the 60th Venice Biennale.

Her 16mm film To Remain in the no Longer (2023) has been screened at MUDAC (Lausanne, Switzerland), The 35th edition of Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Open City Documentary Festival (London, UK), 18th Edition of Ecrans du Reel (Beirut, Lebanon) and was included in the 2nd Sharjah Architecture Triennale (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates). Her works are in the collection of le Musée d'art Contemporain Montréal and in private collections in Canada, and Europe. She is currently a 2024-26 participant in the De Ateliers program in Amsterdam.