Shuruq Harb is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, filmmaker and writer based in Ramallah, Palestine.

Her film The White Elephant won the award for best short film at the Cinema du Reel Festival in Paris in 2018 and was shortlisted for the 2019 Hamburg International Short Film Festival. She was awarded the Video Art Production Prize by the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Fundació Tàpies (2019), which enabled the production of her short film The Jump. She has contributed to numerous publications, including Ibraaz, A Prior, Ocula, ETCETERA and e-flux Video & Film. Her first short story, ‘and this is the object that found’, was published in Mezosfera (2020), and her latest essay, ‘An Hour Ahead and One Day Behind’, appeared in the latest issue of kyklàda.press, entitled ‘Machine Paralysis’, 2025.

She was an artist-in-residence at Etxe Betea, ‘A Shelter of One’s Own’ (2025–2026), in Bilbao, and a guest lecturer on the PRAXIS programme organised by Fluent in Santander. Her exhibition ‘Interrupted Futures’ (2026) opened at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo in 2026.

Shuruq Harb will be at BilbaoArte from 15 September to 15 December.