Sarah Abdel Jelil

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