Ghinwa Yassine (Lebanon/Canada) is an award-winning anti-disciplinary artist, art educator, and cultural producer, based on the unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh people, also known as Vancouver. Her work includes film, installation, performance, sound, and sculpture, and text and her embodied interdisciplinary practice is speculative feminist auto-theory. Yassine’s work is concerned with the body as a site where personal and collective memory manifest. She’s a shapeshifter whose practice is currently hovering in a gap between radical resistance and embracing an inner belly dancer.
Yassine was awarded the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities in 2023. Her first solo show took place at la Centrale Gallerie Powerhouse in 2024, and she was 3-times nominee to the Lind Prize at Polygon Gallery. Her works have been exhibited in the Netherlands, Lebanon, the UAE, Canada, Iran, and Croatia.
She holds an MFA in contemporary art and interdisciplinary studies from Simon Fraser University, an MA in Digital Video Design from the University of the Arts Utrecht, and a BA in Graphic Design from the American University of Science and Technology in Beirut. Ghinwa has an extensive background in education, brand design and strategy, project management, and event planning and production, and is currently in the role of co-executive director with MENA.
