Jananne Al-Ani

Title: Untitled, May 1991 (Gulf War Series)
Media: Silver Gelatin Prints
Date: 1991
Dimensions: 20 16cm x 16cm framed B/W photographs
Overall dimension: W 100cm x H 80cm
Edition: 2/5

Artwork courtesy the artist

Starting Bid: $1600

Biography:
Jananne Al-Ani was born in Iraq in 1966. She lives and works in London. Al-Ani studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 1997. She is currently developing a project with al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem and is working, in collaboration with Film and Video Umbrella and the Norwich Art Gallery, towards a solo exhibition touring Britain in 2004/5.

Exhibiting widely in Britain and abroad, Al-Ani has had solo shows at Dryphoto Art Contemporanea, Prato and the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles (2002). Recent group exhibitions include Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists at the Krannert Art Museum, Champaign (2004); Love Affairs at IFA-Galerie, Stuttgart, touring to Bonn and Berlin; Alethia: the Real of Concealment at Göteborgs Konstmuseum; And the One doesn't stir without the Other, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Disorientation curated by Jack Persekian for the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin and The New Schehrazades curated by Rose Issa at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2003).

Al-Ani co-curated the exhibition Veil at The New Art Gallery Walsall touring to Bluecoat Gallery & Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Modern Art Oxford and Kulturhuset Stockholm (2003/4) and Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London touring to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (2001/2). Al-Ani was the recipient of the East International Award (2000) and her works can be found in public collections including the Arts Council of England and the Imperial War Museum, London; the Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.