Jawa El Khash is a Syrian artist, researcher and technologist currently based in Toronto. She artistically adopts the mediums of holography, web based simulation, 3D modelling, and virtual reality to archive, re-imagine and resurrect cultural artifacts, art history and botanical life. Her work is inspired by the celebration of intercivilizational exchange of ideas, craft, and cultural heritage, while looking into the future of museology, digital archaeology and 3D heritage. She was long listed for the Sobey Art Award presented by the National Gallery of Canada (2021) and a finalist for the Art Jameel Prize presented by The Victoria & Albert Museum and Art Jameel (2024).
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Raqqa Ware 2.0 Museum - Charles Street Video - Toronto, CA
2020
The Upper Side of the Sky - InterAccess - Toronto, CA
2019
The Upper Side of the Sky - Extracurricular XYZ - Toronto, CA
Group Exhibitions
2025
Upcoming / 7th edition Jameel Art Prize Moving Images, Hayy Jameel - Jeddah, SA
Upcoming / Tending To What Remains, Workman Arts - Toronto, Canada
7th edition Jameel Art Prize Moving Images, Cartwright Hall - Bradford, UK
4th edition Cairotronica Out-Natured, invited by Diriyah Art Futures - Cairo, Egypt
2024
7th edition Jameel Art Prize Moving Images, Victoria & Albert Museum- London, UK
Illustration & Heritage Research Symposium, University of the Arts London - London, UK
Spectral Futures, Trinity Square Video - Toronto, CA
2023
Nature’s Algorithm, Evergreen Brick Works & Scotiabank CONTACT Festival - Toronto, CA
2022
Streams Nuit Blanche, Art Gallery of York University - Toronto, CA
2021
Lumière Arts Festival - Nova Scotia, CA
MUTEK Festival 22nd Edition - Montreal, CA
2020
Empathy Revisited, The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial & Pera Museum - Istanbul, Turkey
Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week, Western Front - Vancouver, CA
Distant Arcades, MUTEK Festival - Montreal, CA
2020 Emerging Digital Artist Exhibition , TSV - Toronto, CA
Vitrines, Gallery 44 - Toronto, CA
2019
Liminal Forms, OCAD Graduate Gallery - Toronto, CA
Press & Publications
2025
"Rebuilding Palmyra, brick by electronic brick. The ancient city of Palmyra was shattered by Islamic State. Now a Syrian artist is rebuilding it on her computer" - The New European, written by Richard Holledge
2024
"Arab Hospitality - 24th edition of Editorial Concreta"- curated by Jorge Van den Eynde Gray and Laura Vallés Vílchez
"Jameel Prize: Moving Images shortlisted projects" Victoria & Albert Museum
"Artists Shirin Fahimi and Jawa El Khash turn to the digital to reimagine what history has lost" CBC Arts, written by Angel Callander
2023
"Jawa El Khash: Nature’s Algorithm" for Evergreen Brick Works & Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival print edition written by Charlene K. Lau
2021
"Empathy Revisited: Designs for More Than One" for the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial print edited by Mariana Pestana with Sumitra Upham and Billie Muraben
"A national survey of artists who build worlds beyond the visible" for Canadian Art print edition written by Megan MacLaurin
"Episode XI. Media Genealogies and Haptic Geographies" for Flash Art Magazine online edition written by Alex Estorick and Laura U. Marks
"A World Where Flowers Reign" for Archives Week Vancouver online edition written by Laura U. Marks
2020
"The Upper Side of the Sky" for Interaccess online edition written by Vince Rozario
"The Butterfly Effect" for Gallery 44 online edition written by Heather Riggs
"Jawa El Khash's latest work resurrects lost artefacts in a virtual afterlife" for It's Nice That online edition written by Lorna Pittaway