Jananne Al-Ani • Slade School of Fine Art

Jananne Al-Ani is a London-based Iraqi-born artist working with photography, film and video. She is currently Reader in Photography and Moving Image at the University of the Arts London.

Exhibiting widely both nationally and internationally, she has had solo exhibitions at Ab-Anbar Gallery, London; Towner Eastbourne; Beirut Art Center; National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC; Imperial War Museum, London; Darat al Funun, Amman; and Art Now: Tate Britain, London.

Recent group exhibitions include Air Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Trembling Landscapes, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam; Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York; A Stitch in Time, Today Museum, Beijing; Please Come Back. The World as Prison? MAXXI, Rome; Film as Place, SFMOMA, San Francisco; A Bird’s Eye View of the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima.

She has participated in the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial; 11th Sharjah Biennial; 13th Istanbul Biennial; 18th Biennale of Sydney; and the 54th Venice Biennale. Her work can be found in collections including the V&A, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; and Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna.