Joyce Joumaa is a video artist and writer based between Beirut, Montreal and Amsterdam. After growing up in Lebanon, she pursued a BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University in 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 space and the social psychology that unfolds out of this tension.
She has exhibited at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, E-flux Screening Room, Galerie Stewart Hall, the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the 60th Venice Biennial and the 35th edition of Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Plein Sud Centre D’exposition and Eli Kerr Gallery. She is the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists and the 2023 Plein Sud award.
She is currently working on her upcoming film with the support of the PERICULUM Foundation.
A temporary loss of consciousness
Thresholds of Insight
Memory Contours
To Remain in the no longer
Selected Install Views
Selected Collaborations
Publications
Sculpture Work
Photo Work
Writings
Press
May 2025:
Mutable Cycles - CCS Hessel Museum of Art
Image as Trace - Brunette Coleman
For CV, Studio Visits, Portfolio or Commissions
Email me or contact Eli Kerr for Canada Representation.
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