RPI Degree Program: Electronic Arts Ph.D.

Area of Research / Interest: Bioart, contemporary art, new media, cultural studies

Undergraduate Studies: Visual Arts and Communications; Media & Film, University of Windsor

Biography: Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Her practice employs art, food, and technology to investigate meanings of culture, displacement, diaspora, and belonging. She examines ideals of home and community while working to develop aesthetics rooted in her childhood and upbringing in the Middle East. Abu Zaineh is the recipient of the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists. She has exhibited her work at Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada); Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal; Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Portugal; Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico; SVA, NYC, USA; Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, USA; Forest City Gallery, Canada; Centre Culturel Canadien, France.