Biography
Dr Tina Sherwell is the Director of The International Academy of Art Palestine, a post she has held since 2007. Previously she was Programme Leader of Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (2005-07). She was also Executive Director of the Virtual Gallery at Birzeit University, and has worked with Tate Online on their digital archives (2004-06). Exhibitions she has curated include a retrospective on Sliman Mansour titled Sliman Mansour: Terrains of Belonging, Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash (2011), Disrupted Intimacies, the French-German Cultural Center, Ramallah (2015) and the annual degree show of The International Academy of Art Palestine from 2011-15. She has authored various texts on Palestinian art, recent publications include Sliman Mansour (Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash, 2011), Nearness and Distance: Cartographies of Contemporary Palestinian Artists Photographic Practices, Photography’s Shifting Terrain (New York University Abu Dhabi, 2015), Curatorial Expediations: The Ramallah Safari, Stedelijk Studies #1 – Collecting Geographies (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2014), Measures of Uncertainty, Ibraaz Platform 007 (Ibraaz, 2014), Time Loop in Palestinian Video Art in Constellation of the Moving Image, ed. B. Makhoul (Palestinian Art Court – al Hoash, 2013), Contemplation on Public Art in Palestine (Henrich Boell Foundation, 2012). She has undertaken consultancy work for various organisations including UNESCO, Birzeit University Museum, Riwaq and The Danish Centre for Culture and Development. She was awarded the prize of Alexandria Biennale in 2001 for her map series of Palestine. Cherwell graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in Textiles and Critical Theory and received her PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury in Image Studies. Sherwell lives in Occupied East Jerusalem.