My practice as an artist, researcher and technologist celebrates the technological revival of ancient culture. Holography, web based simulation, 3D modelling, and virtual reality are the mediums that I artistically adopt to archive, re-imagine and resurrect cultural artifacts. My creative research dissects the role of technology in archiving art history and the artistic influence of cultural heritage, botanical life and architectural identity. My projects are rooted in research with a playful approach to immersive experimental frameworks, looking into the future of museology, digital archaeology and 3D heritage, translating the spirit of ancient objects into a digital identity. My work is inspired by the celebration of intercivilizational exchange of ideas, craft, and cultural heritage that needs to be protected and guided into its transformation towards a contemporary identity. 

2014 - 2019

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Integrated Media: Digital Painting & Expanded Animation - OCAD University

2024

Raqqa Ware 2.0 Museum - Charles Street Video - Toronto, Canada

2020

The Upper Side of the Sky -  InterAccess - Toronto, Canada

2019 

The Upper Side of the Sky - Extracurricular XYZ - Toronto, Canada

2024

The Upper Side of the Sky -  Victoria & Albert Museum & Jameel Art Prize - Moving Images  curated by Rachel Dedman,  on going touring group exhibition until 2026 - V&A Museum, London, UK + Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK + Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudia Arabia.

Tiles Revisited - University of the Arts London - 14th Annual Illustration Research Symposium - Illustration & Heritage curated by Rachel Emily Taylor - London, UK

The Upper Side of the Sky - Trinity Square Video - Spectral Futures curated by Vince Rozario - Toronto, Canada

2023

Natures Algorithm -   Evergreen Brick Works -The 27th edition of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival  curated by Charlene K. Lau - Toronto, Canada

2022

Replicas - Art Gallery of York University - Streams Nuit Blanche 2022  curated by Clara Halpern - Toronto, Canada

2021

The Real and the Fake - Partners in Art - Artist in Interview Series  - Toronto, Canada

Hammam - 5th Istanbul Design Biennial - Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one curated by Mariana Pestana - Istanbul, Turkey

Hammam - Mutek Festival - Virtual Wonders Online Exhibtion- Montreal, Canada

2020

The Upper Side of the Sky - Western Front - Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week online exhibition curated by Dana Qaddah - Vancouver, Canada 

The Upper Side of the Sky - Mutek Festival - Distant Arcades - Montreal, Canada

The Upper Side of the Sky - Trinity Square Video -  2020 Emerging Digital Artist Exhibition curated by Shannon Linde - Trinity Square Video - Toronto, Canada

The Butterfly Effect - Gallery 44 - Vitrines curated by Heather Canlas Rigg - Toronto, Canada

2024

Landed Histories Symposium: Ecology, Power and Politics in Digital and Lens-based Practices - Victoria & Albert Museum - London, UK

Raqqa Ware 2.0 Museum - Charles Street Video - Toronto, Canada

Raqqa Ware 2.0 Museum - InterAccess - Toronto, Canada

2022

STYLY x InterAccess XR Artist Talk - InterAccess - Toronto, Canada

2021

Poetics of World Building - hosted by Gabriel Menotti. Presented by Agnes Etherington Art and  in the framework of the Museum Without Walls project - Online Talk

2020

Posterity & Expatriation: A Conversation Between Jawa El Khash and Dana Qaddah presented by  Vancouver Independent Archives Week and Western Front - Online Talk

2019

Artist Talk & Tour for the closing of The Upper Side of The Sky - Extracurricular XYZ - Toronto, Canada

2018

OPEN_FILE - Panel Discussion - Extracurricular XYZ - Toronto, Canada

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

2020

Lead Time Mentorship Program - Mentored by Morehshin Allahyari - Art Gallery of York University

2024

Jameel Prize: Moving Images finalist - Presented by the Victoria & Alberts Museum and Art Jameel

2021

Sobey Art Award Long List - Presented by the National Gallery of Canada

2020

Emerging Digital Artists Award - Presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video

2019

Media Arts Award & Prize - Presented by InterAccess