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Nida Sinnokrot is an artist whose work explores how various forms of power and bias are embedded in dominant narrative structures of time and space.

Biography

Nida Sinnokrot (b. 1971, Pennsylvania) is an artist whose work explores how various forms of power and bias are embedded in dominant narrative structures of time and space. His multimedia artworks expose technologies of control that give rise to shifting social, political and environmental instabilities. Sinnokrot is the co-founder of Sakiya, an international residency programme and research platform in Palestine, and a faculty member of MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His work can be found in various collections, including Sharjah Art Foundation Collection; Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman; Palestinian Museum, Birzeit; and Adrastus Collection, Arévalo, Spain. His solo shows include Nida Sinnokrot, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne (2019–2020); Expand Extract Repent Repeat, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin (2018–2019); and Exquisite Rotation, KIOSK, Ghent (2018). Sinnokrot’s Palestine Blues (2006) has been screened in film festivals worldwide and has won seven awards for Best Documentary.