b. 1990, Kuwait

Education

2019— Doctor of Philosophy [PhD] Electronic Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, USA

2019 Master of Fine Arts [MFA], University of Windsor, Canada

2014 Bachelor of Arts [BA] Double Major: Communications, Media & Film; Visual Arts, University of Windsor, Canada

*Forthcoming

Select Solo Exhibitions

2024 (Untitled), Artcite Inc., Windsor, Canada*

2022 In the Presence of Absence, guest-curated by Noor Alé, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada

2021 New Voices, Arts Council Windsor & Region, Canada

2019 Home is Where the Maqlouba is, SoCA Gallery, Windsor, Canada

2016 From Within, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Canada

2014
Consume, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Miscellany, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Select Group Exhibitions

2023

ART Toronto, The Next Contemporary, Canada

RawCookedRotten, Taboo - Transgression- Transcendence in Art & Science, Malta Society of Arts,
Valletta, Malta

Southwest Seen, Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada

Ireland Glass Biennale, Dublin Castle, Ireland

Olive Branch, Public Art Installation, DWBIA x City of Windsor, Canada

Southwest Seen, Museum London x Media City Film Festival, Canada

She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy, Museum of Glass, Washington, USA

2022
The Art of Living: On Community, Immigration, and the Migration of Symbols, curated by Catherine Bedard, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France

Meantime, curated by She Bends, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, USA

this is not an atlas, curated by Noor Alé, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Canada

Pique Winter Edition, produced by Debaser, Arts Court & Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada

Untitled, curated by Fabrik Media, LA Art Show, USA

Between the Waves, Collar Works, Troy, NY, USA

2021
Conversations: Windsor Essex Triennial of Contemporary Art, guest-curated by Ray Cronin in collaboration with Lucas Cabral, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada

2020
Through Clenched Teeth, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada

2019
Inventorium 2.0, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada

2018
Idea Projects: the Ontario Science Centre’s Studio Residencies, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Canada

FACTT 2018, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico

FACTT 2018, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

FACTT 2018, Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal

Montras, Cultivamos Cultura, São Luis, Portugal

Raizes, Biblioteca Municipal José Saramago, Odemira, Portugal

Is Anyone Reading This?, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Beige Thistle, SoCA Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Tech Art Fair, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada

ARTSCI SALON/FACTT TORONTO, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Feasting the Lab, SoCA Gallery, Windsor, Canada

VIDEOSTORE, SoCA Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Luminous Flux I, SoCA Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Part Art Part Party pt.13, TRNSFRMR Gallery, Windsor, Canada

2017
MOONACID, Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Part Art Part Party pt.12, TRNSFRMR Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Part Art Part Party pt.11, TRNSFRMR Gallery, Windsor, Canada

2016
W.A.V.E.S, City of Windsor Sculpture Park, Windsor, Canada

Part Art Part Party pt.4, TRNSFRMR Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Scene & Heard, Villains, Windsor, Canada

2015
Harvesting the FAMfest, Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Part Art Part Party pt.2, TRNSFRMR Gallery, Windsor, Canada

TEN., Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Canada

2014
W.A.V.E.S, City of Windsor Sculpture Park, Windsor, Canada

Art in Tech/Art in Tech, Hackforge, Windsor, Canada

Summer Art Fest, Artcite Inc., Windsor, Canada

2013
Spectrum, SoVA Projects Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Exposure lll Art + Fashion Exhibition, Overseas Motors Mercedes-Benz, Windsor, Canada

Presented Talks & Workshops

2023
Curator, iEAR Salon Speaker Series: Cultural Narratives & De-coloniality in Contemporary Art. Episode 1: Morehshin Allahyari with Jude Abu Zaineh

Curator, iEAR Salon Speaker Series: Cultural Narratives & De-coloniality in Contemporary Art. Episode 2: Wally Dion with Jude Abu Zaineh

Curator, iEAR Salon Speaker Series: Cultural Narratives & De-coloniality in Contemporary Art. Episode 3: Yasmine Nasser Diaz with Jude Abu Zaineh

Artist talk, Home is Where the Maqlouba is: An Overview of a Bioart Workshop,
Taboo - Transgression- Transcendence in Art & Science, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta

Artist talk, Ingesting Home, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology, Taos Pueblo Education & Training Division, UNM-HIVE, STEMArts Lab and Stem Santa Fe, hosted by Cultivamos Cultura- Associação Cultural, Taos, USA

Panel Discussion, Redefining Neon Legacy, Hosted by She Bends & Rise Peacock

Artist talk, Redefining Neon Legacy, Museum of Glass, Washington, USA

2022
Artist talk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Ecological Arts [ARTS_4200]), Troy, USA

Artist talk, In the Presence of Absence, in conversation with Julie Tucker, Art Windsor-Essex, Canada

Jude Abu Zaineh presents: A Bioart Workshop, INCUBATOR Lab Studio, Windsor, Canada

2021
Artist talk, University of Windsor (VSAR-3860 Bioart: Contemporary Art & the Life Sciences), Canada

Artist talk + Panelist, Just Food: because it is never just food, Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS), and The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)

Artist talk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Advanced Drawing [ARTS_4200]), Troy, USA

Artist talk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Creative Seminar [ARTS_4850]), Troy, USA

Artist talk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Art History [ARTS_1050]), Troy, USA

Public Programming & Virtual Workshop, Rise Up, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada

2020
Artist talk, SciArt Initiative: LunchBreak, Windsor, Canada

Artist talk, University of Windsor SoCA (VSAR-4900 Professional Development), Canada

Artist talk + Panelist , The Bio-Art Mixer # 8 Online Symposium, Syracuse University, NY, USA

2019
Home is Where the Maqlouba is: An Overview of a Bioart Workshop, University of Windsor, SoCA, Canada

2018
Home is Where the Maqlouba is: An Overview of a Bioart Workshop, Taboo - Transgression- Transcendence in Art & Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico

Home is Where the Maqlouba is: A BioArt Workshop, INCUBATOR Lab, Windsor, Canada

Algae Workshop, with Dr. Jennifer Willet, Windsor, Canada

2017
Banting Yeast, with Dr. Jennifer Willet, Windsor, ON/ London, Canada

2016
Spotlight on FAHSS: Career Panel, University of Windsor, Canada

2015
Windsor Yeast, with Dr. Jennifer Willet, Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, Canada

Points of Interest, with Lindsay Whalen, Art Gallery of Windsor & City of Windsor Sculpture Park, Canada

Ontario Association of Art Galleries Presents (OAAG): Sustainable Economies: The Regional Public Art Galleries’ Role in Vibrant Art Scenes, Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada

Back to the Drawing Board: Ask a Working Artist, Arts Council Windsor & Region, Windsor, Canada

Leamington Yeast, with Dr. Jennifer Willet, Leamington Arts Centre, Leamington, Canada

2014
Cultural Entrepreneurship Workshop, University of Windsor, Canada

Awards

2023-24
SSHRC Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Founders Award of Excellence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

2023
Finalist, Waveforms 2023, Museum of Science, Boston, MA,USA

HASS Fellowship Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

2021-22
HASS Production Grant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA

HASS Fellowship Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA

SSHRC Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Founders Award of Excellence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

2020-21
HASS Production Grant, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA

SSHRC Doctoral Award, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, The Hnatyshyn Foundation, Canada

2019
SoCA Production Grant, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor, Canada

2018
SoCA Production Grant, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor, Canada

INCUBATOR Lab Research Stipend, University of Windsor, Canada

Arts Culture Heritage Fund, City of Windsor, Canada

Residencies

2024
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), NY, USA*

2022
Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), NY, USA

INCUBATOR Lab, Windsor, Canada

2021
She Bends, San Francisco, USA

2019
Ontario Science Centre + Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2018
Ontario Science Centre + Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Cultivamos Cultura, São Luis, Portugal

Indefinitely rescheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic

May 2022 Untitled (group show), curated by Nora Al-Badri, Berlin, Germany

March 20-21, 2020 FEMeeting (artist talk), The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY, USA

April 7, 2020 Palestinian Connections: Tea and Talk with artist Jude Abu Zaineh, The Sanctuary for Independent Media , Troy, NY, USA

April 28, 2020 Home is Where the Maqlouba is with artist Jude Abu Zaineh, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY, USA

May 3-10, 2020 Untitled (group show), Collar Works, Troy, NY, USA

May-June, 2020 Artist in Residence @ Cultivamos Cultura, São Luís, Portugal

June 17-20, 2020 The Art and Resistance Conference: Indigenous Imaginaries, Dar Al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, Bethlehem, Palestine

July 2020 Artist in Residence @ INCUBATOR Art Lab, Windsor, Canada

September 2020--2021 FACTT 2020 (group show); Toronto, Canada, NYC, USA; Lisbon, Portugal

October 2020 Untitled (group show), Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Select Press

− Let’s Talk about Glass: The Ireland Glass Biennale 2023, NEUES GLAS-NEW GLASS: art & architecture,
No. 2/ 2023 issue

− Cover image for fuse: the Museum of Glass Magazine, January-June 2023 issue

− Mike's adventures in art: 'She Bends,' 'Art + Flight,' 'The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster’,
KUOW 94.9 NPR, Mike Davis and Kim Malcolm, June 9, 2023

− Immerse yourself in neon at She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy, Destiny Valencia, The Tacoma Ledger, March 6, 2023

− ‘She Bends’ brings female artists and their glowing, gas-filled work to Museum of Glass, Craig Sailor,
The News Tribune, February 12, 2023

− She Bends: Redefining Neon Legacy, Allison Devereaux, CBC Afternoon Drive Radio/Web segments,
aired February 9, 2023

− Exploring Culture and Belonging Through Biology & Technology, Jade Warwick,
WMHT and PBS: AHA! A House For Arts, TV, Web/Social Media segments, aired November 16, 2022

− Jude Abu Zaineh’s In the Presence of Absence, Katerina Georgieva, CBC Windsor News at 6: TV & Radio segments & CBC Windsor Canada article, July 21 & 25, 2022

− Meet 3 Windsor artists making waves in the local art scene, Katerina Georgieva, CBC News, July 25, 2022

− Spotlight on Windsor artist Jude Abu Zaineh, Nav Nanwa, CBC Windsor Morning, Radio and Web/Social Media segments, aired June 8, 2022

− (translated from Arabic) NFT and the Art World: Are we catching the wave?, Hala Al-Saadi,
VICE Arabia, March 28, 2021

− Artists and Curators Awarded $55,000 in Prizes by The Hnatyshyn Foundation, Canadian Art; Fall 2020 Chroma, online and print

− Referenced in book: Art in Science Museums: Towards a Post-Disciplinary Approach, edited by Camilla Rossi-Linnemann, Giulia de Martini, Routledge; 1st edition (December 5, 2019) Page 264 of 368

− Prestigious emerging artist award goes to Windsor's Abu Zaineh, Dave Battagello, Windsor Star, September 11, 2020

− Magazine feature: Beyond Measure: A Performance Art Survey in Metro Detroit and Windsor, Arturo Herrera, Barbed Magazine issue #08, Fall 2019

− Art exhibit 'bringing people together' using traditional Palestinian dish, Sanjay Maru, CBC News, April 23, 2019

− Inventorium 2.0: Culturing a Third Space, Display Case, 2019

− Recorded radio interview and text: Jude Abu Zaineh on Bioart, Branda Miller, The Sanctuary for Independent Media, December 17, 2018

− Ontario Science Centre: Tech Art Fair, Sciart Initiative, 2018

Affiliations

Artcite Inc.
Arts Council Windsor & Region
Art Windsor-Essex
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Windsor

Please email judeabuzaineh@gmail.com for a comprehensive CV including exhibition list, professional, and teaching experience.