Noor Abed

Noor Abed (1988, Jerusalem) is currently a
participant at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Studio Program, NY.
She holds an MFA in Photography and Media from California Institute of
the Arts, Los Angeles, and a BA in Contemporary Visual Art from the
International Academy of Art Palestine. Abed uses forms of performance,
video/film and installation. Through her lived experience and
observations of Palestinian society, Abed became particularly interested
in social transformation in relation to the theory of internal
colonization. Taking the personal body as a social one, she questions
concepts of psychological violence, desire and forms of resistance
specifically regarding its movement and occupation of the body.

Selected exhibitions and participations include: The Practice of
(in)visibility, University of Brighton, UK, 2015. YAYA 2014: ‘Suspended
Accounts’, Ramallah, Palestine. UCLA New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles
2014. My Sister Who Travels, The Mosaic Rooms, London 2014. Printemps de
Septembre Festival/ FIEA, France 2012. Truth is Concrete, Art Marathon,
Graz, Austria 2012. The Ninth Annual Performance Festival, Norway 2011.
Jerusalem Show: On/Off language 2011. Abed was recipient of fellowship
at Documenta(13), department of Maybe Education and Public Programs,
Germany 2012. She was a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting
and Sculpture, Maine, 2014, and recipient of the 3rd prize of the Young
Artist of the Year Award, YAYA 2014, Palestine.