Jordan Nassar (b. 1985) lives and works in New York, NY. Nassar’s hand embroidered textile pieces address an intersecting field of language, ethnicity and the embedded notions of heritage and homeland. Treating craft within its capacity as communicative form, Nassar examines conflicting issues of identity and cultural participation using geometric patterning adapted from Islamic symbols present in traditional Palestinian hand embroidery. Nassar generates these symbols via computer and then meticulously hand stitches them onto carefully mapped-out patterns. In the enmeshing and encoding of these symbols within his work, Nassar roots his practice in a linguistic and geopolitical field of play characterized by both conflict and unspoken harmony.
We Are The Ones To Go To The Mountains, September 15 – October 27, 2020
Staycation, April 7 – May 30, 2020
Home is Not a Place, June 8 – July 13, 2019
Frieze New York: Frame, May 2 – 6 , 2018
Dunya, September 9 – October 21, 2017
Jordan Nassar
Education
Solo Exhibitions and Two Person Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Group Publication Exhibitions
Artist Residencies
Publications
Selected Press
Selected Bibliography of Self-Published Artist's Books
Collections
Jordan Nassar (b. 1985) lives and works in New York, NY. Nassar’s hand embroidered textile pieces address an intersecting field of language, ethnicity and the embedded notions of heritage and homeland. Treating craft within its capacity as communicative form, Nassar examines conflicting issues of identity and cultural participation using geometric patterning adapted from Islamic symbols present in traditional Palestinian hand embroidery. Nassar generates these symbols via computer and then meticulously hand stitches them onto carefully mapped-out patterns. In the enmeshing and encoding of these symbols within his work, Nassar roots his practice in a linguistic and geopolitical field of play characterized by both conflict and unspoken harmony.
We Are The Ones To Go To The Mountains, September 15 – October 27, 2020
Staycation, April 7 – May 30, 2020
Home is Not a Place, June 8 – July 13, 2019
Frieze New York: Frame, May 2 – 6 , 2018
Dunya, September 9 – October 21, 2017
Jordan Nassar
Education
Solo Exhibitions and Two Person Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Group Publication Exhibitions
Artist Residencies
Publications
Selected Press
Selected Bibliography of Self-Published Artist's Books
Collections