Asma Ghanem

Asma Ghanem is a Palestinian artist, experimental musician, and writer. She was born in Damascus-Syria in 1991. Asma has two degrees in audio-visual arts from the International Academy of Arts in Palestine in 2013 (BA) and a master’s degree (MA) from the University of Fine Arts in Toulouse-France (ISDAT) In 2016. She participated in numerous exhibitions, art residencies, and workshops worldwide. She won a Special Mention in The Palestin’ & Out competition in Paris for her photography project Bodies with notes in 2015, She also won the 3rd prize in The Young Artist Award/The Hassan Hourani Prize in 2016 for her experimental music project Homeland is….

In 2024, she gave lectures at Cornell University in New York and CalArts University in California on her art practice as a Palestinian artist, and art from the Arab world. Asma Ghanem’s works are inspired by the imaginative nature of narrating the personal experience of the occupation in Palestine. Her artistic and musical works are connected to her childhood and are centered around essential components such as the concept of homeland, and the sonic experience under occupation.