Jumana Manna

Jumana Manna (; born 1987) is a Palestinian visual artist. Born in the United States, she lived in Jerusalem and Oslo and now resides in Berlin. She holds U.S. and Israeli citizenship.

A multidisciplinary visual artist, Manna works in multiple mediums, including installation art and film. Manna has produced work featured at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA PS1, The Moving Museum, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, and the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Early life and education Manna was born in 1987, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

Career Manna's work explores the effects of preservation practices in the fields of agriculture, science and law.

Manna's 2015 film A Magical Substance Flows Into Me focuses on Robert Lachmann's quest to create an archive of "oriental music" in Jerusalem.

In 2021, her exhibition “Thirty Plumbers in the Belly" was on display at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen. Foragers'' examines how Israel's declaration that za'atar and akkoub are protected species impacted Palestinians.

In 2026, there was controversy around a work she was commissioned by the Norwegian government as part of the rebuilding of the government quarters after the bombing of 2011, where she intended to dedicate the artwork to the Palestinian struggle .