Windows: Rosalind Nashashibi Across Two Spaces

ARCH and Melas Martinos are delighted to present “Windows”, a two-part exhibition by Rosalind Nashashibi

Rosalind Nashashibi, a London-based painter and filmmaker of Palestinian and Northern Irish heritage, is an artist whose practice consistently explores the act of looking – a gaze that often crosses over into the space of the subject, at once unsettling and profoundly empathetic.

Her films resist linear narration, unfolding instead through fragments where power structures, intimacy, and collective histories surface and recede. In her paintings, familiar motifs – a pair of swans, a canvas marked by a cross or an X – are transformed into enigmatic signs, prompting us to reconsider what we see and how we see it. Echoes of late 19th-century Parisian painters appear not as nostalgic references but as radical re-engagements with history, drawing the past into the present to generate strikingly new experiences.

Nashashibi studied Painting at Sheffield Hallam University before completing her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, which also included a formative exchange at CalArts in California in 2000. Over the past two decades, she has become a major voice in contemporary art: in 2003, she was the first woman to receive the Beck’s Futures prize; in 2017, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize; and in 2020 she served as Artist in Residence at London’s National Gallery. Her work has been presented at some of the most influential international exhibitions, including the 52nd Venice Biennale, Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah Biennial 10.

Windows will be inaugurated on 17 September (17:00–21:00) and will unfold simultaneously across both gallery spaces, inviting audiences to encounter Nashashibi’s work in dialogue, across painting and film, across histories and gestures, across two rooms that open onto one another like windows.

Education
1998-2000 MFA Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art  
1999-2000 MFA Exchange CalArts, California  
1992-1995 BA Painting Sheffield Hallam University  

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 upcoming Solo Exhibitions: KM21, The Hague  / Windows, Melas Martinos Athens and ARCH Athens / Tender Horse, Urs Meile Gallery, Zurich
2023 Hooks, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham / Infinity Pool, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2022 Monogram, Carré d’Art, Nimes / Monogram, Radvika Palace for CAC Vilnius / Darkness and Rest, Grimm Gallery, New York 2020 An Overflow of Passion and Sentiment, Rosalind Nashashibi Artist in Residence at the National Gallery, London / Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam  2019  Future Sun, (Nashashibi/Skaer), SMAK, Ghent / Deep Redder, Vienna Secession, Vienna, CAAC, Seville / Grimm Gallery, New York, NY  
2018  Art Institute Chicago / Witte de With Contemporary Art / Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw  
2017  Jack Straw’s Castle, LUX, London
2016  On This Island, CAC Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA. / Two Tribes, Murray Guy, New York / Electrical Gaza, Kinotech, Kunstverien Munich, Munich
2015   Electrical Gaza, new commission, Imperial War Museum, London
2014  Infinite Tuning / Rosalind Nashashibi, Murray Guy, New York
2013   The Painter and the Deliveryman, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp / Carlo’s Vision, Murray Guy, New York
2011  Carlo’s Vision, Body Habits, Nomas Foundation, Rome / Carlo’s Vision, Sacred and Profane, Peep-Hole, Milan
2010  Woman Behind a Cushion, Tulips and Roses, Brussels
2009  Rosalind Nashashibi, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway / Rosalind Nashashibi, ICA, London / Rosalind Nashashibi, Projects in Art and Theory, Cologne / Rosalind Nashashibi, Stuttgart Kunstlerhaus
2008  Rosalind Nashashibi, Presentation House, Vancouver / Bachelor Machines, Professional Gallery, OCAD, Toronto
2007  Rosalind Nashashibi, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California  / Bachelor Machine Part 2, Statements, Art Basel, (Harris Lieberman, New York) / Bachelor Machine, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2006  Rosalind Nashashibi, Harris Lieberman New York
2005  Rosalind Nashashibi, Counter Gallery, London
2004  Over In, Kunsthalle, Basel / Five Films, SOFA Gallery, Art and Industry Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand / Hreash House, Lightbox, Tate Britain, London / Songs for Home and Economy, CCA, Glasgow
2003  Rosalind Nashashibi, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin / Humaniora, Visions for the Future V, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 Open Day, Transmission Gallery Basement, Glasgow 

Awards
2017  Turner prize nomination
2014   Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
2008  John Kobal New Work Award, Whitechapel Gallery
2006  Decibel Award
2003  Beck’s Futures Art Prize
2002  A M Qattan Foundation Artist’s Award