Nida Sinnokrot

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Nida Sinnokrot
Born1971 (age 5253)
Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States
Education University of Texas at Austin, Bard College
Occupation(s)Visual artist, educator, filmmaker
Known forInstallation art, film
Website www.nidasinnokrot.com

Nida Sinnokrot (born 1971) is an American contemporary visual artist, filmmaker, and educator, of Palestinian ancestry. [1] His work is focused on installation art, and film. [2]

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Early life and education

Sinnokrot was born in 1971, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, and raised in Algeria. [1] [3] His parents were born in Palestine with his father from Hebron, and his mother from Jaffa. [4] Sinnokrot was raised speaking Arabic with an Algerian dialect, English, and French. [2] He relocated back to the United States as an adolescent. [1]

Sinnokrot received a B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin; and a M.F.A. degree from Bard College. [2]

Career

In 2002, he won a Rockefeller Media Fellowship [2] Subsequently, he directed an award-winning[ citation needed ] documentary called Palestine Blues (2006), which he described as "a disappearing landscape film." [5]

Sinnokrot’s work employs a variety of mediums to transform ordinary objects or actions into sensory experiences that reveal a complexity of form and perception trapped within the mundane. In 2001 he participated the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. He is a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellow (2002) and a Fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude (2012–2015) [6] and has received support from the Merz Akademie, among others.[ citation needed ]

Sinnokrot’s recent solo shows include Exquisite Rotation at KIOSK in Ghent (2018) which brought together cinematic installations and sculptural works spanning 20yrs, and Expand Extract Repent Repeat at Carlier | Gebauer in Berlin (2018–2019) which presents recent sculpture, photographs, and installation works that reference flows of global capital, the writing and rewriting of history, and cycles of debt. Sinnokrot’s work is in various public collections including the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates and the Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan.[ citation needed ]

Sinnokrot has taught at Al-Quds Bard Honors College for Liberal Arts and Sciences in East Jerusalem and is currently an assistant professor in MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Program (ACT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[ citation needed ]

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