Youmna Chlala is a
Lebanese-American artist and writer.
Biography
She was born in
Beirut and grew up there and in
Los Angeles. Chlala received a
MFA in creative writing from the
California College of the Arts.
She is a visiting member of the faculty at
LaGuardia Community College and the
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...
.
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With Gayle Romasanta, Chlala founded the literary journal ''Eleven Eleven''.][
Chlala's art has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the ]International Film Festival Rotterdam
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since its foundation in 1972, it has maintained a focus on independent and experimental fi ...
, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, at the San Jose Museum of Art, at the Arab American National Museum and at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Performa Biennial and the International Roaming Biennial of Tehran
Urban Jealousy, the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran was an itinerant multimedia art exhibition presented in Istanbul (Hafriyat Karaköy, May 30 - June 6, 2008), Berlin (various spaces, November 20 - December 7, 2008) and Belgrade (Apr ...
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She has been artist in residence at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway, at the Triangle Arts and Makkan in Shatana, Jordan and at the Headlands Center for the Arts in California.][
Her writing has appeared in '' Guernica'', in ''Bespoke'', in ''CURA'', in the ''MIT Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies'' and in ''XCP: Journal of Cross Cultural Poetics''. Chlala also contributed to the book ''Nation, Gender, and Belonging: Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives''.][
Her work explores the interaction of fate and architecture through various media including sculpture, drawing, video, installation and performance.]
Awards and honours
She has been nominated for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 2009, Chlala received a Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award for her poetry manuscript ''The Paper Camera''.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Lebanese emigrants to the United States
21st-century Lebanese poets
Lebanese contemporary artists
California College of the Arts alumni
Pratt Institute faculty
Lebanese women poets
21st-century Lebanese women writers