The School of Graduate Studies at OCAD University in Toronto is pleased to be hosting Studio Connections: Artist Networks, a series of artist, designer and curator talks to inspire and support the OCAD U Graduate community. Please join us to welcome Rehab Nazzal, on March 17th, 12pm. This talk will include a moderated Q+A. Please register https://bit.ly/RehabNazzal
Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. Her work deals with the effect of settler colonial violence on the bodies and minds of colonized peoples and on the land and other non-human life. Nazzal’s video, photography, and sound works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions including at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, Palestine; Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto; CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto; Karsh-Masson Galley, Ottawa; The Spanish Institute of Art; Encounters Film Festival, UK; The 22nd Sydney Biennale, Australia; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Foresight Gallery, Amman, Jordan. She has curated and co-curated several local and international exhibitions in Canada and Palestine including the touring exhibition “Live in Palestine.”She has presented her work at multiple conferences including at the international symposium Venice Biennale and the Arab World, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy; Through Post-Atomic Eyes, University of Toronto, OCAD University, and Art Gallery of Ontario; Critical Topographies, Ryerson University and Trent University, Toronto.
Dr. Nazzal is currently teaching photography at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. She was an assistant professor at Dar Al-Kalima University in Bethlehem for three years, where she also served as Chair of the Contemporary Art and the Interior Design Programs. She also lectured at Western University and Ottawa School of Art for six years. She holds a PhD in Art and Visual Culture from Western University (London, Ontario), an MFA from Ryerson University (Toronto), and a BFA from the University of Ottawa. She is the recipient of several awards including the Social Justice Award from Ryerson University and the Edmund and Isobel Ryan Visual Arts Award in Photography from the University of Ottawa. She received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral award and has held multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Art Council.