Born in Canada of Arabic background, Jamelie Hassan is based in the southern Ontario city of London. She is a visual artist and activist and since the 1970s has created a body of work that is intensely driven by an engagement in both local and international politics and cultures. Her interdisciplinary installations, writing and curatorial projects explore personal and public histories. Her works are in major public collections and she is the recipient of numerous awards including the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2001).

Hassan's engagement with film, arguably more than any other medium, demonstrates the importance of community in her practice. A film program curated by Miriam Jordan and Julian Haladyn contextualize her film projects and includes a publication The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan edited by Julian Haladyn and Miriam Jordan, with essays by Laura U. Marks and the editors, published by Blue Medium Press (2010). A survey exhibition of her work, Jamelie Hassan: At the Far Edge of Words organized by Museum London, London, Ontario (Spring 2009) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Spring 2010) is circulating nationally (publication 2010).

Exhibitions include Real Stories, Museet for Fotokunst (Odense, Denmark, 1992); Disrupted Borders (U.K. 1992); Trade Routes, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, 1993); Le Milieu du Monde, Villa St. Clair (Sète, France, 1993); The End(s) of the Museum, Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 1996); Hong Kong: Cities at the End of Time (Vancouver, Canada, 1997); Warzones, Presentation House (Vancouver, B.C. 1999); Museopathy, Museum of Health Care, (Kingston, Ontario, 2001); Caribbean Books, Caribbean Contemporary Arts (Port of Spain, Trinidad 2002); Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, University of Toronto and Concordia University, Montreal (2008); and Integración y Resistencia en la Era Global, 10th Havana Biennial (Havana, Cuba, 2009); Home/land Security, Render Gallery, The University of Waterloo (2009); Jewels in the Machine: New Media Works at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival, (Toronto, 2009).

Artist Code: 568