Joyce Joumaa
b.1998 Beirut, Lebanon
EDUCATION
2016-2021, BFA in Film Studies, with distinction – Concordia University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026, UQO Gallery, Gatineau, Canada (upcoming exhibition)
2024, Eli Kerr, Montreal, Canada
2024, Centre D’exposition Plein Sud, Montreal, Canada
2024, Contact Festival, Young And Dundas Public Square Commission (Video screens), Toronto, Canada
2023, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025, Jaou, Tunis, Tunisia
2025, Brunette Coleman, London UK
2024, Parloir Tournai, Belgium
2024, Saint Laurent, Eli Kerr, Montreal, Canada
2024, Together? Together, Screening at Istituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
2024, Foreigners Everywhere, 60th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2024, Not everything is Given, ISP Curatorial Whitney, New York, United States
2023, Dawn Draws, Dusk Drops, Joys, Toronto, Canada
2023, Writing Mountains, Stewart Hall Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2023, The beauty of Impermanence, 2nd Sharjah Architecture Triennale, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2022, USE 22 Exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2022, MAADI, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2021, Quand Soudainement, Espace Voltaire, Paris, France
2020, Exposition de Membres, Articule, Montreal, Canada
2020, Resilience Resistance, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2019, Papyrophobia, Lux Magna Festival, Montreal, Canada
2018, Vols de Nuit organized by Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2018, Papyrophobia - Art Installation – part of Femmes Cachées, Ausgang Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2018, Seed the Bomb Exhibition, Parc Jean Drapeau Canadian Pavillion – Hosted by
2018, The Alternative Denmark, Entremise and the Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
RESIDENCIES
2024, Darat Al Funun, Amman Jordan
2024-2026, De ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023, Neither at Land nor at sea, UNIDEE Residency Module V, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2023, Ada X Local Residencies, Ada X, Montreal, Canada
2021-2022, Emerging Curator Residency Program, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
2021, Parc Offsite, Montreal, Canada
GRANTS
2023, Research & Creation Grant 2023, Canada Arts Council
2023, Production Grant Recipient 2023, Periculum Fondation pour l’art Contemporain
2020, Publication Grant, Fine Arts Reading Room
2020, Publication Grant, Public Studio PS Guelph
2020, Special Project Grant, Archive Counter Archive
2017, Fine Arts Students Alliance Special Project Grant
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024 , Recipient, The William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists
2024, Finalist, Prix Oeuvre de la Relève, CALQ (Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec)
2023, Recipient of Bourse Plein Sud Finalist, Prix Pierre Ayot
2021, Recipient of Emerging Curator Residency Program, CCA Canadian Centre for Architecture
TALKS AND PANELS
2024, Guest Lecturer, ETH Zurich
2024,
SESSION, Mercer Union
2024, Guest Lecturer, Fabulating Futures for a Planet in Crisis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2023, Guest Lecturer, Defining Landscape, Daniels John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture,
2023, Landscape and Design at University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada,
2023, Guest Lecturer, Cities, Growth, Politics, and Power - Disrupting Colonial Continuities, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2023, Panelist, Screening of films by Farah Al Qasimi and David Hartt, CCA The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
2022, Participant artist – Conversation, The Green Resilience Project
2022, Artist talk – PhD Seminar in Global Histories, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2022, Artist talk – POP Montreal Symposium, Montreal, Canada
2022, Artist Talk – L’autonomie des artistes et commissaires émergents, Livart/Artch, Montreal, Canada
2022, Panelist – Curation as Research Creation, UAAC Conference 2022 Conference of the
2022, Universities Art Association of Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2022, Session 29, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
2021, Panelist – Dismantling Racism work in Art Institution, Galerie UQO, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada
2020, Participant artist – Conversation, Probing the Potential of Cultural Institutions, Phi Foundation, Montreal, Canada
2019, Panelist – Rôle Des Artistes Femmes Arabes dans la Scène artistique à Montréal, Festival du Monde Arabe, Montreal, Canada
2019, Panelist - Militantisme et cinéma: Regards de cinéastes libanais durant la Révolution, RIDM; Cinema Politica; DocQuebec, Montreal, Canada
2019, Panelist – Liban: La Révolution Continue; Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
SELECTED SCREENINGS
From the void came gifts of the cosmos, 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
North American Premiere of To remain in the no longer, Images Festival Toronto, Canada
Official selection of To remain in the no longer, Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, England
Screening of To Remain in the No Longer, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Film screening, Cinema Moderne, POP Montreal, Montreal, Canada
E-flux screening room, Film as a curatorial tool, New York USA
SELECTED PRESS
2024, The House on the Corner, Parloir 2024, Emergent Magazine
2024, Wij, vreemdelingen. Venetië: ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, De Witte Raffte
2024, Projection mapping : Joyce Joumaa
2024, Joyce Joumaa: That Was Then and So Is Now
2024, Meet the Montreal-based filmmaker who'll be the youngest artist at the Venice Biennale, CBC Arts
2023, Writing Mountains Review by Mojeanne Behzadi
2023, New documentary by Joyce Joumaa finds architectural allegory for Lebanon’s crisis
2023, Vie des Arts - Review
2023, Diary of dawn draws, dusk drops
2023, Interview Koozarch
2023, [Critique] «L’inertie du vide»: au Liban, un mirage moderne? | Le Devoir
2023, Esse - Review To Remain in the No Longer - Announcements
2023,
e-flux program - Announcements - The CCA announces its 2023 program
2023, Dix expos d'arts visuels à surveiller
2023, The Politics of Architectural Neglect | Architect Magazine
2022, FIFA is proud to welcome Joyce Joumaa as guest programmer
2022, Stanley Février pointe du doigt l’invisibilisation des artistes des minorités visibles
2022, Une muséologie inclusive à la manière de Stanley Février | Le Devoir
2022, The FOFA Gallery Undergraduate Student Exhibition is on now — in person - Concordia University