Nida Sinnokrot (born 1971) is an American contemporary visual artist, filmmaker, and educator, of
Palestinian ancestry.
His work is focused on
installation art, and film.
Early life and education
Sinnokrot was born in 1971, in
Jeannette, Pennsylvania, United States, and raised in Algeria.
His parents were born in Palestine with his father from
Hebron, and his mother from
Jaffa
Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo ( he, יָפוֹ, ) and in Arabic Yafa ( ar, يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is known for its association with the b ...
. Sinnokrot was raised speaking Arabic with an Algerian dialect, English, and French.
He relocated back to the
United States as an
adolescent.
Sinnokrot received a B.A. degree from the
University of Texas at Austin; and a M.F.A. degree from
Bard College.
Career
In 2002, he won a Rockefeller Media Fellowship
Subsequently, he directed an award-winning documentary called ''Palestine Blues'' (2006), which he described as "a disappearing landscape film."
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)
and has received support from the
Merz Akademie
Merz Akademie is a non-profit university of art, design, and media, located in the Berg Kulturpark of Stuttgart, Germany and was established in 1985. Its roots lie in the "Free Academy for Recognition and Design" founded in 1918 by reformist p ...
, among others.
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.
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.
References
External links
Made in Palestine, Nida Sinnokrot
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1971 births
Living people
Film directors from Pennsylvania
American people of Palestinian descent
Bard College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
People from Jeannette, Pennsylvania
University of Texas at Austin alumni