British Palestinian artist Rosalind Nashashibi is a painter and filmmaker. Her films chronicle intimate moments of contemporary life across diverse circumstances with a deeply empathetic and personal approach. In both her films and paintings, one piece often permeates into the next one, creating an ongoing dialogue between participants and bodies of work. Nashashibi’s oeuvre is similarly imbued with precise references to the works of other filmmakers and painters— such as references to David Hockney, Pierre Bonnard and the filmmakers Alexander Kluge and Chantal Akerman.
Nashashibi is able to capture different kinds of relationships through the minutiae of her subjects’ lives and the lived environment. Her films are often non-linear, punctuated by manifestations of power dynamics and the subtext of collective histories. Subjects have included non-linear family structures, the multiple personae of the artist and chronicling Palestinian life.
Since 2014 Nashashibi has returned to the medium of painting creating abstract and figurative works. Her paintings incorporate motifs that are pulled from her everyday environment such as a wine glass or an illuminated taxi sign, which are then reworked in multiple variations. There are references to historical paintings alongside a freshness and an immediacy that comes from an intuitive, process-based exploration. The picture plane is sub-divided by frames and forms are by turns delineated and then left open to spread, creating a luminosity in the paintings.
The simple refinement of the artist’s paintings can be compared to her films in that they gently outline an internal visual language; giving the viewer space to think associatively rather than imposing an affected logical structure.
Rosalind Nashashibi (1973, London, UK) received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK) after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK) where she received her MFA. As part of her Master’s degree, Nashashibi participated in a three-month exchange program in Valencia, California (US) at CalArts in 2000. In 2020, Nashashibi became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK), after the program was re-established. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003.
Nashashibi has had solo exhibitions at venues including, Nottingham Contemporary (UK); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR); Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); The High Line, New York, NY (US); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US); Imperial War Museum, London (UK); and ICA, London (UK). Nashashibi has participated in group exhibitions at, Centre Georges Pompidou and Forum des Images, Paris (FR); Tate, London (UK); Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX); Whitechapel, London (UK); Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US), among others.
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Self-Portraits
5 Apr - 4 May 2024 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Hooks 11 Feb - 7 May 2023 Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (UK) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Monogram 14 Oct 2022 - 26 Mar 2023 Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Darkness and Rest 10 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US) -
Someone said that the world's a stage
Curated by Margot Samel 1 Jul - 6 Aug 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US) -
54 White Street | Inaugural exhibition
GRIMM's new gallery in Tribeca 20 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 GRIMM 54 White St, New York, NY (US)Join us in March 2021 for the grand opening of GRIMM's new space in Tribeca at 54 White Street. For more further information, please email info@grimmgallery.comRead more -
Rosalind Nashashibi
17 Oct - 21 Nov 2020 GRIMM Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL) -
Frieze New York
Group presentation 8 - 16 May 2020 GRIMM Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL)Frieze presentation at GRIMM's new Van Baerlestraat 80 location in Amsterdam.Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer
Future Sun 30 Nov 2019 - 16 Feb 2020 S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE) -
Away in the Hill
Group Exhibition 27 Jun - 2 Aug 2019 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
DEEP REDDER 24 Jun - 1 Sep 2019 Secession, Vienna (AT) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Solo exhibition 8 Mar - 18 Apr 2019 GRIMM 202 Bowery, New York, NY (US) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Red Sea 16 Nov 2018 - 12 Jan 2019 Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw (PL) -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Solo exhibition 9 Sep 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL)
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Rosalind Nashashibi
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Rosalind Nashashibi Goes Through the Legs and Between the Shutters at Nottingham Contemporary
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Review: Denim Sky — Rosalind Nashashibi
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Art reviews: Nashashibi/Skaer
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Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar
Sara Cascone, Artnet News, D, December 7, 2021 -
Rosalind Nashashibi: How I Reluctantly Allowed Renoir to Shape My Art
Ravi Ghosh, Elephant Magazine, December 2, 2021 -
Rosalind Nashashibi: An Overflow of Passion and Sentiment
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ARTFORUM picks Rosalind Nashashibi
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Edinburgh Art Festival review: Ten Artists
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Nashashibi/Skaer at Murray Guy, New York
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The art world's favourite Easter and Passover images
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‘One day, I wanted to make something’: why Rosalind Nashashibi swapped her camera for canvas
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Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashibi explore the intriguing idea of non-linear time at S.M.A.K
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Rosalind Nashashibi announced as 2020 National Gallery Artist in Residence
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Rosalind Nashashibi, Reconsidering Her Story, and Others
Louisa Elderton, Blouin Artinfo, April 1, 2019 -
Rosalind Nashashibi at Witte de With
Contemporary Art Daily, December 25, 2018 -
Gauguin’s disturbing visions brought to life at Tate St Ives
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, October 30, 2018 -
Our Magnolia, Nashashibi/Skaer, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
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Cinematic Borderlands
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Turner Prize nominee Rosalind Nashashibi: 'I felt like Gaza was under a spell'
Ben Luke, Evening Standard, September 28, 2017 -
SHARE Palestinian-English artist Rosalind Nashashibi among nominees for prestigious Turner Prize 2017
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Turner Prize 2017: Rosalind Nashashibi
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Rosalind Nashashibi at Murray Guy
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Rosalind Nashashibi interviewed by George Vasey
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Critics' Picks
Alex Davidson, Artforum, October 1, 2015 -
Vertigo #1
Ellen Greig, LUX, February 25, 2015 -
Rosalind Nashashibi, "The Painter and the Deliveryman" at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
Mousse Magazine, December 31, 2013 -
Rosalind Nashashibi
The New Yorker, October 14, 2013 -
Rosalind Nashashibi
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Carlo's Vision
Vincenzo Latronico, Domus, September 21, 2011 -
Nashashibi/Skaer
Lauren O’Neill Butler, Arttforum, May 1, 2010 -
Rosalind Nashashibi
T.J. Demos, Artforum, March 1, 2010 -
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Brian Dillon, Frieze, January 1, 2010 -
Rosalind Nashashibi
Laura Cummings, The Guardian, September 12, 2009 -
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FILM MAKES TIME
Michele Robecchi, Mousse, June 1, 2009 -
Looking Out
Martin Herbert, Frieze, May 1, 2008
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Rosalind Nashashibi Artist Talk at The Photographer's Gallery, London (UK)
5 April 2024, 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm March 19, 2024GRIMM is pleased to share an artist talk with Rosalind Nashashibi at The Photographers Gallery. The talk will be moderated by Dina Akhmadeeva and following...Read more -
GRIMM at Frieze London 2023
October 6, 2023GRIMM will present a series of new works from a range of international artists within the gallery program that reflect its foundations in the Netherlands,...Read more -
Rosalind Nashashibi "Hooks" at the Nottingham Contemporary
Rosalind Nashashibi February 11, 2023In February 2023, Nottingham Contemporary will present the largest exhibition to date of London-based artist Rosalind Nashashibi’s paintings. By turns lush, fractured and dream-like, this...Read more -
"Verso II" (2021) by Rosalind Nashashibi acquired by Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes
July 15, 2022GRIMM is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of Rosalind Nashashibi's Verso II (2021) by the Carré d'art, Nîmes (FR). This is the fourth...Read more -
Rosalind Nashashibi appointed the new 2020 artist-in-residence at the National Gallery, London
Rosalind Nashashibi December 3, 2020Rosalind Nashashibi was appointed the 2020 National Gallery Artist in Residence in collaboration with the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, Orkney. During the residency she...Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer 'Future Sun' opens at S.M.A.K.
30 November 2019 - 16 February, 2020 November 1, 2019For the first time, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer bring together films and works from their joint and individual practices in the exhibition ‘Future Sun’...Read more -
Nashashibi/Skaer – Thinking Through Other Artists | Tate
Nashashibi/Skaer November 12, 2018