Ghaida Abduljalil
About:
Ghayda is a Palestinian audiovisual artist, musician, and writer based in Doha and Amman. She earned a BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in
Qatar, with a keen interest in other fields like African art, cinema, and sound design. Notably, she worked as a research assistant at the GA:MA lab in the art history department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been exhibited in prominent venues such as Liwan, Eiwan al Gassar, the VCUQ exhibition space, Multaqa, and at the 2023 Ars Electronica
festival in Linz, Austria, where she showcased her audio-visual installation. Ghayda served as the class marshal, graduating in Richmond during a leadership trip. She also participated in
the 2024 Summer Academy at Darat al Funun.
She starts her work by exploring the world around her. She reads, walks, listens, and digs through archives until she feels a genuine connection to the subject she’s investigating. From
there, she transitions smoothly between different media—printmaking, sculpture, scanography, photography, mixed-media animation, sound, and film—selecting materials that range from fabrics and textiles to the medium that best conveys her idea.
Her work often brings together themes from sociology, psychology, geopolitics, and philosophy, shaped in part by her own experiences of displacement and living in between
places. She’s drawn to the meeting points between nature and human-made environments, the analog and the digital, the traditional and the experimental. Every material she chooses has a purpose, and each decision she makes ties back to the core questions that guide her practice. Nothing is random; everything has meaning.
Ghayda is a Palestinian audiovisual artist, musician, and writer based in Doha and Amman. She earned a BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University in
Qatar, with a keen interest in other fields like African art, cinema, and sound design. Notably, she worked as a research assistant at the GA:MA lab in the art history department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work has been exhibited in prominent venues such as Liwan, Eiwan al Gassar, the VCUQ exhibition space, Multaqa, and at the 2023 Ars Electronica
festival in Linz, Austria, where she showcased her audio-visual installation. Ghayda served as the class marshal, graduating in Richmond during a leadership trip. She also participated in
the 2024 Summer Academy at Darat al Funun.
She starts her work by exploring the world around her. She reads, walks, listens, and digs through archives until she feels a genuine connection to the subject she’s investigating. From
there, she transitions smoothly between different media—printmaking, sculpture, scanography, photography, mixed-media animation, sound, and film—selecting materials that range from fabrics and textiles to the medium that best conveys her idea.
Her work often brings together themes from sociology, psychology, geopolitics, and philosophy, shaped in part by her own experiences of displacement and living in between
places. She’s drawn to the meeting points between nature and human-made environments, the analog and the digital, the traditional and the experimental. Every material she chooses has a purpose, and each decision she makes ties back to the core questions that guide her practice. Nothing is random; everything has meaning.