Jordan Nassar

Jordan Nassar

1985

Born in Manhattan, NY

Lives and works in New York City

Education

2007

BA, Middlebury College, Vermont, US

Solo Exhibitions

2027

Solo Exhibition, SCAD Museum of Art, GA (forthcoming)

2026

Solo Exhibition, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

Jordan Nassar, The Third Line, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2025

REVELATION, James Cohan, New York, NY

THERE, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

2024

THERE, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Surge, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2023

A Mountain Looms, James Cohan, New York, NY

2022

A Sun To Come, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

To Light The Sky, James Cohan, New York, NY

Fantasy and Truth, ICA Boston, Boston, MA

Lē’ahi, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design, Honolulu, HI

2020

The Field is Infinite, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY

I Cut the Sky in Two, James Cohan, New York, NY

We Are The Ones To Go To The Mountain, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2019

Between Sky and Earth, Bainbridge House, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

The Sea Beneath Our Eyes, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

For Your Eyes, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

2017

Dunya, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Jaffa: New Works, Artport Tel Aviv, Israel

2016

And a Night, Evelyn Yard, London, UK

No Secret with Mika Horibuchi, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions

2026

Everything I Know Is a Borrowed Map, Irene Y. Panagopoulos Collection, Voula, Greece

2025

A Thought Is A Thread: Contemporary Artists Reworking Textile Traditions, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY

Edge of Visibility, Wayne State Galleries, WSU College of Fine, Performing, and Communication Arts

A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance, Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA

All About 25, James Cohan, New York, NY

Landscapes, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2024

Grace Under Fire, the Shepherd, Detroit, MI

Copy Machine Manifestos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Objects: USA 2024, R & Co, curated by Kellie Riggs and Agelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, New York, NY

Tell Me if the Lovers Are Losers, two-person exhibition with John Brooks, North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Cut From The Same Cloth: Textile & Technology, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY

Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan, New York City, NY

New Landscapes Part II, Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College

2023

Variations on a Theme, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Thread Routes, MASSIMODECARLO, London, England

Fabric, Peter Blum, New York, NY

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Long Story Short, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Outside: In, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL

Strings of Desire, Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Here After, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere: Freedom Dreams in Contemporary Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

Foresight Prevents Blindness, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

Substance – SUBSTANCES, Collegium, Arévalo, Ávila

Picturing Motherhood Now: Images for a New Era, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

2021

Pt. 2: Invasive Species, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

A Boundless Drop To A Boundless Ocean, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2020

There is Fiction in Space, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

We Do Not Dream Alone, Asia Society Triennial, Asia Society, New York, NY

RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Making Knowing: Craft in Art 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan, New York, NY

Home is Not a Place, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

Go Away Road, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY

The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Out Of Ink, 8 Ball, NYC, NY

A Matter Of Printing (for SMC), Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany

Pray For This Gallery, NYC, NY

Home Edition, Essex Flowers, NYC, NY

The New Minimalists, Abrons Art Center, NYC, NY

New Threads: Perspectives in Contemporary Fiber Art, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

Long, Winding Journeys: Contemporary Art and the Islamic Tradition, Kotonah Museum of Art, NYC, NY

2017

Bootleg T-shirt Show Part III, Printed Matter Inc., NYC, NY

On Longing, Arcadia Missa, NYC, NY

Overview, Samuel, Chicago, IL

2016

Summer Reading, Fortnight Institute, NYC, NY

In Residence, Las Cruxes, Houston, TX

2015

Bootleg T-Shirt Show Part II, Printed Matter, Inc., NYC, NY

Ausstellung 61, Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014

June Snow, Evelyn Yard, London, UK

Group Publication Exhibitions

2025

Threads, UBS Gallery, New York, NY (Forthcoming)

Artist Residencies

2022

Shangri La, Museum of Art, Culture and Design, Honolulu, HI

2017

Artport Tel Aviv, Israel

2016

ACE AIR, Ace Hotel, New York, NY

Press

2025

Lee, Sophie. “Palestinian-American Artist Jordan Nassar’s Latest Show Excavates the Uncertain Future of Relics,” Cultured, 26 August 2025

Grand, Robert Alan. “Jordan Nassar: THERE,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2024-2025

2024

Nassar, Jordan. "Surge," Artforum, June 2024

Yerebakan, Osman Can, "A Palestinian-American Artist’s Pieced-Together Landscapes, on View in Los Angeles," The New York Times, May 2024

"Unmissable Exhibitions | Anat Ebgi at Frieze LA", Metal Magazine, February 2024

"Mee the Artists of Artsy’s June Pride Auction", Artsy, June 2023

"Pick of the Week: Jordan Nassar", Artillery, June 2024

"Must See Shows: Jordan Nassar", Galerie, June 2024

"Jordan Nassar’s Surge", Mutual Art, July 2024

"Jordan Nassar | Moving Mountains", Family Style, July 2024

"Jordan Nassar on Palestinian Embroidery and Diasporic Identity, Artforum Documentary Video, June 27, 2024

2023

"Fantasy and Reality: Jordan Nassar", Identity Magazine, November 2023

Pulido, Armando, "The Best Shows to See in Los Angeles during Frieze," FRIEZE, February 15, 2023 (Link)

2024

"Jordan Nassar Shares His Path to Becoming an Artist", Art21, January 2024

2022

Wang, Shirley, “stitch by stitch,” Frankie Magazine, July 31, 2022.

Hudson, Suzanne, “Review Jordan Nassar at Anat Ebgi,” Artforum, May 2022 Issue

Talass, Rawaa, “Celebrating Arab-American artists’ contribution to culture,” Arab News, April 21, 2022.

E.C., “Jordan Nassar: To Light The Sky,” Air Mail News, April 2022.

Cascone, Sarah, “Editors’ Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Joan Jonas in Times Square to Art Inspired Courtroom Dramas,” Artnet News, April 19, 2022.

Sutton, Benjamin, “More than $3.1m awarded to recipients of United States Artists grants for 2022, The Art Newspaper, January 26, 2022.

2021

Jansen, Charlotte, “Dreamscapes: Jordan Nassar,” Crafts Magazine, March/April 2021 Issue, No. 287.

2020

Cohen, Alina, "5 Embroidery Tips from Leading Contemporary Artists," Artsy, May 19, 2020. (Link)

Schwendener, Martha, "The Art Show at The Armory," New York Times, February 27, 2020. (Link)

Vali, Murtaza, "Artforum Critic’s Pick," December 18, 2019. (Link)

Hicklin, Aaron, "Jordan Nassar’s new apartment exhibition lives between the Israel, Palestine binary," Document Journal, November 26, 2019. (Link)

Artsy Editors "The Artists To Know Right Now," The Artsy Vanguard, September 16, 2019. (Link)

2019

Wrathall, Claire, "New Threads," Christie’s Magazine, June 2019. (Link)

Tafoya, Harry, "Finding Both Comfort and Challenge in the Idea of "’Home.’" Hyperallergic, July 2, 2019. (Link)

"Reframing Inherited Nostalgia," Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, April 2019. (Link)

"Jordan Nassar’s New Take on Traditional Hand Embroidery," Embroidery Magazine, January 2019

2018

Rebecca Bengal, "How This Brooklyn-Based Artist is Transforming Traditional Palestinian Folk Art," Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2018. (Link)

"Watch: The Cross-Cultural Relationship Between Married Artists Jordan Nassar and Amir Guberstein," OUT Magazine, May 18, 2018. (Link)

Alex Bacon, "Jordan Nassar is delicately weaving a new vision into one of Palestine’s cultural legacies," Document, May 4, 2018. (Link)

Sara Roffino, "The 8 Best Booths to See at Frieze New York," Cultured Magazine, May 4, 2018. (Link)

Alexandra Weiss, "10 Must-See Artists at Frieze New York 2018," BlackBook, May 3, 2018. (Link)

Nadja Sayej, "Frieze New York: How This Year’s Art Fair Got Political," The Guardian, May 3, 2018. (Link)

Hamish Bowles, "Here’s What to Go See at This Year’s Frieze Art Fair," Vogue Magazine, May 3, 2018. (Link)

Maximilíano Durón, "Preview Frieze New York 2018," ArtNews, May 1, 2018. (Link)

Gareth Harris, "Frieze to bring West Coast buzz to New York," The Art Newspaper, April 30, 2018. (Link)

Frieze New York, ARTPIL, April 22, 2018. (Link)

Aaron Hicklin, "Spinning Yarns," Out Magazine, April 2018. (Link)

2017

Leah Ollman, “Jordan Nassar at Anat Ebgi: Palestinian cross stitch art as boundary breaker,” Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2017.

2016

Molly Taylor, “New Establishment,” Elephant Magazine Issue 28, Autumn 2016.

Feature on Littlestar Weekly, www.littlestarjournal.com, August 1, 2016.

2015

LVL3, “Artist of the Week: Jordan Nassar,” September 15, 2015.

Awards

2022

USA Fellowship

2024

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award

Publications and Press

2019

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism

2018

"How To Sleep Faster, Issue 8" Published by Arcadia Missa, London

2017

"Zine Tornado", Published by Peter Sutherland and Maia Ruth Lee

"Violent Music", Published by Cali Thornhill Dewitt

2016

The Third Rail (Summer 2016)

Selected Bibliography of Self-Published Artist’s Books

2016

A Whole New World

We Were Here First

Bellevue

Any Other Rose

Messenger of the Gods

Kahlil Gibran

2015

When It’s Naked

Ma Rose Apocalypse

Collections

Bonnier Collection, Stockholm, Sweden

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY

Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM & Chicago, IL

Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Fidelity Collection, Boston, MA

Fundación Medianoche, Singapore

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Isreal

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Marciano Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI

Rollins Museum of Art, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

TIA Art Collection, Sante Fe, NM

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY