SARAH ABDEL-JELIL CV
Sarah Abdel-Jelil is a Mauritanian American multimedia artist, leveraging film and dance in Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce. Sarah’s work questions notions of time and bodily wisdom by investigating the intersection of the artistic process and ‘what remains.’
Languages
- English
- French
- Arabic (basic)
- Mandarin (intermediate)
Lived Experience
- China
- Gabon
- Jordan
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Switzerland
- U.K.
- U.S.A.
Press & Publications
- 2024 "Choreographing Balance,"
- 2021 “Jerome Fellowship Exhibition Catalog,” Christina Chang (January 2021)
- 2020 “We Take Everything With Us - Interview,” Film North & Walker Art Center (September 2020)
- 2020 “MCAD-Jerome Fellow Interview,” Melanie Pankau (May 4, 2020)
- 2016 “Comps Profile: Sarah Abdel-Jelil ‘16 experiments with time-lapse photography,” Carleton News (March 3, 2016)
- 2015 “‘Sets, Series, Sounds’ brings the noise in new Pearlman Exhibit,” Carleton News (May 27, 2015)
Education
University of Minnesota, MFA in Visual Art, 2022—2025
Carleton College, B.A Cinema and Media Studies, 2012—2016
Fellowships & Grants
Human in the Data Fellowship | University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, Minneapolis, MN | 2024
Graduate Research Partnering Program Fellowship | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | 2023
UMN Grad Scholarship, Fellow | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | 2022
MCAD-Jerome Foundation, Fellowship for Early Career Artists | Minneapolis, MN | 2019 - 2020
Midwest Mixed Conference, Teaching Artist | Minneapolis, MN | 2019
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant, Awardee | Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN | 2017
Artist Residencies
Rosy Simas Danse Studio three thirty one (331), Artist in Residence | Minneapolis, MN 2024 & 2021
The Cowles Center Generating Room Initiative, Artist | Minneapolis, MN 2019/20
La Napoule Foundation, Artist in Residence and Teaching Artist | Mandelieu-La Napoule, France 2019
Caldera Arts Center, Artist in Residence and Teaching Artist | Sisters, OR 2019
The Cowles Center Pivotal Moment Series, Artist Fellow | Minneapolis, MN 2019
Exhibitions, Screenings and Performances
Hollow Bodies & Cartridge | multimedia installation 2024
Regis West Gallery | Fresh Works | Minneapolis, MN
Erin Gleeson Gallery | Somatic Mess | Minneapolis, MN
Tile | digital prints
Regis West Gallery | Fresh Works | Minneapolis, MN 2023
Okay Overall | multimedia installation + dance time-lapse film
3-channel video installation, cyanotypes, and craft music boxes
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Main Gallery | Minneapolis, MN 2021
La Napoule | dance time-lapse film
Dreamacres Farm | Wycoff, MN 2022
Film North - Cinema Lounge | St. Paul, MN 2022
Walker Art Center - We Take Everything with Us |Minneapolis, MN 2020
Batikh | dance time-lapse film
Dreamacres Farm | Wycoff, MN 2022
SooVAC - Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness | Minneapolis, MN 2019
The Black Box Theatre - St. Cloud Film Festival | St. Cloud, MN 2019
The Trylon Cinema - Altered Aesthetics Film Festival | Minneapolis, MN 2019
Bryant Lake Bowl - Cellular Cinema 38: Curator's Potluck | Minneapolis, MN 2018
Free Truth - Media Days | Minneapolis, MN 2018
Carleton College Weitz Cinema | Northfield, MN 2018
Two Truths and a Lie | essay film
St. Anthony Main Theatre - Arab Film Festival | Minneapolis, MN 2019
Kerkethen | dance time-lapse film
The Southern Theater - Altered Aesthetics Film Festival | Minneapolis, MN 2017
Better World Museum - Feminist Video Quarterly | Minneapolis, MN 2017
Bryant Lake Bowl - Film North Cinema Lounge | Minneapolis, MN 2016
Weitz Cinema - Carleton COMPS Symposium | Northfield, MN 2016
Haut Du Pavé | video
The White Page - Altered Esthetics’ Microcinema | Minneapolis, MN 2018
Weitz Cinema - Golden Schillers Film Festival | Northfield, MN 2015
Sets, Series, Sounds | soundscape
Perlman Teaching Museum | Northfield, MN 2015
Performance Works
DANCER
Practice | chor: Tori Breen | Various parks in the twin cities | Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN 2020
Corbeaux | chor: Bouchra Ouizguen | Sculpture Garden, Landmark Center | Mpls & St. Paul, MN 2017
The Wall | chor: Leila Awadallah | Prospect Park Community Garden | Minneapolis, MN 2017
Open Rehearsal | chor: Chris Schlichting | Ivy Building | Minneapolis, MN 2017
Field Dances | chor: Merce Cunningham | Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN 2017
CHOREOGRAPHER
Trab | Bryant Lake Bowl - 9 X 22 and The Cowles Center | Minneapolis, MN 2019
I Forget | I’m From Vol: 2 Immigration & Identity | The Southern Theater | Minneapolis, MN 2018
Devised Butoh theater performance | International School of Geneva | Geneva, Switzerland 2012