Swedish-Palestinian artist
Linda Emmy Al-Ghussein, born in 1977 in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish- Palestinian artist working in Stockholm. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, as well as a BFA in Textile Art from Konstfack, Stockholm. Her practice includes a great variety of media, from sculpture and installation to drawing, collage, and performance. Linda Emmy has exhibited and performed all around Scandinavia, both individually and as part of the art duo Restlessminds. She has received several awards and prizes for her spatial installations and sculptures, among which the 2017 Merita Promising Young Artist Award and several grants from the Swedish Cultural Foundation, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, and the Anita Snellman Foundation.
