Jordan Nassar

Jordan Nassar works with hand-embroidery, wood inlay, glass beads, and smalti mosaic — traditional Palestinian and Levantine craft techniques adapted into stretched, framed works that speak to the gallery as much as the home. His landscapes are imagined, dense with pattern, and stitched in collaboration with craftswomen in Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron.

The embroideries begin with geometric grids laid by the craftswomen, then Nassar fills the fields with rolling hills, valleys, and expanses of color — a practice learned from his father's homeland and his mother's instruction. The work is personal, rooted in the diasporic distance from Palestine, where land is both dream and contested ground.

His recent mosaics reconstruct Byzantine antiquities, hand-cut glass arranged to echo ruins and arrival markers. The work is in collections at the Whitney, LACMA, and RISD, and he is a recipient of the 2022 United States Artists Fellowship and the 2024 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.