Nora Alshaikh

Nora Alshaikh is a contemporary Palestinian artist based in Orlando, Florida, working in large-scale oil painting at the intersection of cultural memory, figuration, and abstraction. Her work maps the persistence of Palestinian cultural fragments — tatreez, Arab architectural traces, and native Levantine flora — within layered, eroded surfaces, constructing a visual space where memory is carried through the body and across generations.

Born in Amman, Jordan, to Palestinian parents, Alshaikh grew up between two landscapes that share a palette, a texture, and a sense of inherited place. When she relocated to the United States in 2021, that distance sharpened everything — unable to fully arrive here or return there, she found herself suspended between worlds, painting not from a place but from the space between places.

Her work has been exhibited nationally at The Other Art Fair Chicago and Los Angeles, and locally at CityArts Orlando and the Mount Dora Fine Arts Festival. She was recognized with the Award of Honor at ArtWorks Fine Art Festival, Melbourne, FL, and her work has been featured in a Saatchi Art's Collection.

Her upcoming body of work, The 24 Hours In-Between, marks a deliberate pivot inward — from the collective memory...

Self-taught

Select Group Exhibition & Art Fairs

2025​
Affordable Art Exhibition - CityArts Orlando
The Other Art Fair – Los Angeles, CA
Mount Dora Arts Festival 50th Annual 2025
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2024
Affordable Art Exhibition - CityArts Orlando
2024 ArtWorks of Eau Gallie Fine Arts Festival
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2023
​The Other Art Fair – Chicago, IL
Des Moines Women's Club 115th Annual Art Exhibition
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2022
​Iowa Exhibited XXXVII
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Artistic Achievements
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Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair in Chicago and Los Angeles
Award of Honor — ArtWorks Fine Art Festival, Melbourne, FL, 2024
Selected for Best of Show Award Judging — Mount Dora Fine Arts Festival, FL, 2025
Collection Feature — Saatchi Art
Affordable Art Show (Juried) — CityArts Orlando, 2024 and 2025