Jananne Al-Ani is a London-based Iraqi-born artist whose work explores the impact of photography, flight, and the technologies of modern warfare on the representation of contested landscapes.
She has had solo exhibitions at E-WERK, Freiburg; the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London; Beirut Art Centre, Beirut; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington DC; Darat al Funun, Amman; and Art Now: Tate Britain, London. Recent group exhibitions include Theatre of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York; Please Come Back. The World as Prison? MAXXI, Rome; Statues also Die, The Egyptian Museum, Turin;Film as Place, SFMOMA, San Francisco; A Bird's Eye View of the World, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. She has participated in the 9thAsia Pacific Triennial; 11thSharjah Biennial;13thIstanbul Biennial and the 18thBiennale of Sydney.
Recipient of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, the East International Award, and the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, her work can be found in collections including the Imperial War Museum, London; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna.