Christina Hajjar is a Lebanese artist, writer, and cultural worker based in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 Territory. Her practice considers intergenerational inheritance, domesticity, and place through diaspora, body archives, and cultural iconography. As a queer femme and first-generation subject, she is invested in the poetics of process, translation, and collaborative labour.
Hajjar was a recipient of the 2020 PLATFORM Photography Award and received an honourable mention for the 2021 Emerging Digital Artists Award. Her practice spans photography, film, installation, curation, and publishing. Her award-winning short films address cultural memory through experimental documentary forms. Hajjar curates the SWANA Film Festival and edits Herizons, Carnation Zine, and qumra journal. Her zine Diaspora Daughter / Diaspora Dyke won Artzine of the Year at the 2021 Broken Pencil Zine Awards.
Learn more at christinahajjar.com