Jumana Manna

Jumana Manna (b. 1987, Princeton, NJ) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Jerusalem and Berlin. Her work explores the articulations of power through the body, land, and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through cinema, abstract sculpture, and collage, Manna addresses how performing bodies, material fragments, and landscapes desire and narrate pasts, presents, and futures that persist and resist the violences imposed upon them. Her recent work deals with the paradoxes of preservation—particularly regarding land practices and the law—probing the tension between modernist traditions of categorization and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life, and its regeneration. Manna is Moving Image Associate Chair at Bard’s MFA program, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. She was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, and has taught at Home Workspace Program, Beirut and Birzeit University, Palestine. Her recent solo exhibitions have been held at Rialto6, Lisbon, 2025; Stavanger Kunsthall, Norway, 2025; Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, 2023; MoMA PS1, Queens, New York, 2022; and M HKA, Antwerp, 2021. She has participated in numerous film festivals, as well as group exhibitions which in 2025 include the venues Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Hawai‘i Triennial 2025; and Migros Museum, Zurich.