Nadia Jaber

Nadia Jaber is a Spanish-Palestinian contemporary artist whose work explores painting as a space where memory, fragmentation, and absence intersect. Her practice approaches painting not merely as a medium, but as a conceptual and philosophical field shaped by deconstructive thought. Drawing on ideas of différance and citation, she understands each painting as a living structure: open, unstable, and in constant dialogue with its references.

Her current body of work, Floral Arrangements, reimagines the traditional still life as a site of impermanence and perpetual decomposition. Floral motifs appear as fragile constructs, always on the verge of disintegration, questioning the possibility of capturing or preserving any fixed essence. Presence, in these paintings, is inseparable from absence; each image carries the trace of what is already disappearing. Through this embrace of ephemerality, painting becomes a space where meaning remains provisional and continually renegotiated.

Jaber’s broader practice engages with fragmentation, digital memory, and the circulation of images in contemporary culture. In earlier series such as Swipe for the details, she assembled fragments from classical and contemporary paintings into hybrid surfaces,...

Parsons, the New School for Design, NYC.
Sant LLuc Artistic Center, Barcelona.

- LOBSTER Club’S 4th annual group exhibition in L.A. during Frieze week / February 26 - 27, 2026

- “NEEDFUL THINGS” GROUP SHOW / UXVAL GOCHEZ GALLERY / Carrer Trafalgar 36, Barcelona / July 2- Sept 6, 2021

- ART GARAGE GROUP SHOW / BRIDGE48 STUDIO / Carrer Llull 48, Barcelona / December 5-6, 2020

- “BOLD” GROUP SHOW / APRESTADORA GALLERY / Carrer Aprestadora 16, Barcelona / January 25 - February 25, 2020

- SOLO SHOW “ABOUT:BLANK” / NO FREE BREAD GALLERY /1150 18th St Santa Monica, LA / October 26 - December 14, 2019

- SAATCHI ART / THE OTHER ART FAIR / Brooklyn Expo Center Brooklyn, NY / November 7-10, 2019

- SAATCHI ART / THE OTHER ART FAIR / Brooklyn Expo Center Brooklyn, NY / May 2-5, 2019

- FLECHA ART FAIR / FLECHA ART / C.C. Porto Pi, Mallorca / March 28 - April 28, 2019

- FLECHA ART FAIR / FLECHA ART / C.C. Arturio Soria, Madrid / Feb 7 - March, 2019