Jumana Emil Abboud (Arabic: جمانة إميل عبّود) is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem.
the Bahrain National Museum in Manama, the Arab World Institute in Paris, The Jerusalem Show, the Darat al Funun in Amman, at the Carré d'Art in Nîmes.
[4] Jumana Emil Abboud was born in 1971, in Shefa-Amr (or Shfar'am) and moved to Canada with her family when she was eight years old.
[5] Her studies were abruptly interrupted in 1991 when she returned to Shefa-Amr with her siblings and mother after the sudden death of her father.
[7] Abboud uses a combination of drawing, video, installation, speech, performance, text and sculpture[8] to portray themes of memory, loss, belonging, and longing.
In this series she uses pencil sketches, photos, lace, and seeds to comment on and depict the woman's normative place in society.
[13] Abboud has shown her work 'Suspicions' (mixed media in wood box) in London in 1998 in an exhibition at Candid Arts Trust called Story Time (وقت القصة) זמן סיפור which was curated by Anna Sherbany.