| Asma Ghanem | |
| Native Name: | أسمى غانم |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Other Names: | Asma Ghanem Miller |
| Birth Place: | Damascus, Syria |
| Nationality: | Palestinian |
| Education: | IAAP, |
| Occupation: | Visual arts, photography, experimental music |
| Works: | Fi Alard, HOMELAND IS…, Wall Piano. |
Asma Ghanem (Arabic: أسمى غانم; born 1991) or Asma Ghanem Miller, is a Syrian-born Palestinian visual artist, photographer, and experimental musician. She is best known for her short documentary film, Wall Piano (2020).[1] [2]
Asma Ghanem was born in 1991 in Damascus, Syria,[3] and raised in a refugee camp with her family. Ghanem graduated from the International Academy of Art Palestine - IAAP (Ramallah, Palestine) and she received the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the (France).[1] [2] [4]
Ghanem started her career working on an experimental music project called Shams Asma (شمس أسمى).[5] About this, she says:
In 2014, she produced her first experimental album titled Fi Alard (في الأرض).[2]
In 2015, her Photography received special mention in the Palest’In & Out festival, a festival to promote talented young Palestinian artists that it held in Paris (France) and organized by Institut Culturel Franco-Palestinien.[1] [2]
In 2016, her experimental music project called HOMELAND IS… won the 3rd Prize in the Young Artist Award (YAYA) of the Hassan Hourani Award.[1] [4]
In 2021, her documentary film Wall Piano was selected at the Tampere Film Festival (Tampereen elokuvajuhlat), a short film festival held at Finland.[1] In this festival, it received the special mention and the Audience Award.[6]
She currently lives in Ramallah (Palestine).[3] [2]