Universal and Timeless — Jordan Nassar

Nassar’s work Your Seeds Shall Live In My Body, a hand-embroidered cotton piece, is in the RISD Museum collection.

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Jordan Nassar’s art practice engages the material variety of craft to execute ideas centered on heritage and homeland. Through hand-embroidery, wood inlay, glass, mosaics, and expansive installations, he examines identity and diaspora. Nassar often employs “the landscape” as a thread throughout these different mediums, carefully mapping out patterns and repeatedly intercepting them, using fields of color to define rolling hills and expanses of water. Nassar created a body of embroidery work with the participation of craftswomen in Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Hebron, juxtaposing local traditions with a contemporary aesthetic. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; KMAC Museum, Kentucky, among others. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, The Museum of Contemporary Art, California; and RISD Museum, Rhode Island, among others. Nassar is represented by James Cohan, New York; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; and The Third Line, Dubai