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

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