Hind Mango Nasser is a Jordanian artist, and a pioneer cultural activist. Her journey has been a steadfast dedication to her community, especially in the area of advancing arts and culture. Liberated from dominant art trends in cultural capitals, her work has been one in continuous movement filled with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Far from being static or satisfied with itself or its own autonomy, Hind’s work has been at every moment unintentionally questioned.
Hind graduated with a BA in History and Politics in 1961 from Beirut College for Women (presently Lebanese American University). She started studying painting under the artist Fahrelnissa Zeid in 1976.
Upon graduating, one of her most defined aims was to develop the cultural scene in her country. She started teaching and established the Alumnae Club of her college, a Children’s Club for cultural activities mainly in performing arts, theater, and environment, The Jordan Crafts Council with a marketing outlet for the traditional and modernized local crafts and the Jordan Ikebana chapter for the art of flower arranging. She was one of the founders of the National Music Conservatory of the Noor Al Hussein Foundation and Chairperson for 15 years and one of the founding members of the Jordan Museum for Archaeology. 1n 1995, Hind started her own project the Jordan Arts and Crafts Center, Artisana, and later established her own gallery, Gallery 14.
Hind Nasser has showcased her art through numerous solo exhibitions in Jordan, while her work has also been featured in prestigious group exhibitions across Europe, Middle East and the United States. Her work has been acquired by the Guggenheim and many prestigious collectors. Currently, her work is being exhibited in Amman, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh.
It is not willingly that Hind deliberately rejects the standard that she has attained, but rather by an inward voice, an answering concern for what is happening in the canvas, for what gives it life and for what will follow next. This facilitates an easy and fast movement from one idea to another with a constant flow of new ideas. Predominantly, these ideas take an abstract form that ranges from free, spontaneous works to more static, precise ones.
Her work is a dialect of interior and exterior landscapes. The landscapes which surround her are those of an oriental country, while clear, unmixed primary colors dominate her landscape paintings. A big part of her abstract work is in oil paintings or paper works, dominated by dark colors and energetic gestural movements: circling, spiraling, curving lines which, avoiding ornamental embraces, dance together into monumental, even threatening ciphers.
The interior landscapes are dramatic while the exterior ones seem to reflect the color schemes of Mogul paintings and miniatures. With great inventive force and discipline, she covers a wide range of images of the inside darkness of the soul and the outside beauties of the world.
“This strong tie between nature and I is my primary inspiration,” says Hind. “I find refuge in its continuous change. It is the world of the unknown, the divine and the ultimate, that’s what my relentless mind keeps fighting for.”
With great sensitivity and force, Hind experiments in different media on canvas and paper and works very comfortably with all the colors of the spectrum. She is propelled by an instinct that is as imperious as that of maternity. It is impossible to stop contented, unless it were easily understood and clear. Probably without knowing it, Hind puts into practice the profound thought of the French Philosopher, the late Gilles Deleuze who, in his book on Francis Bacon wrote: “In art, in painting as in music, it is not a matter of reproducing or inventing forms, but of capturing forces.”
“The TRUTH is in the work.
My fantasy creates this diversity where everything is in its element.”
- Hind Nasser
2024 “Manifestations”, The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
2024 “Parallelism”, Wadi Finan, Amman, Jordan
2022 “No Limitations”, The space, Amman, Jordan
2019 “0 Horizon”, Wadi Finan, Amman, Jordan
2017 “Many Faces of an Artist”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2016 “Soaring”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2011 “So”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2006 Lines Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2006 Jordan Arts and Crafts Centre, Amman, Jordan
2005 The Space, Amman, Jordan
2002 The Jordan Cultural Centre, Dubai, UAE
2001 The Spanish Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan
2000 The City Hall, Amman, Jordan
1997 Jordan Arts and Crafts Centre, Amman, Jordan
1995 Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
1992 Jordan University, Amman, Jordan
1992 Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
1989 The Intercontinental, Abu Dhabi, UAE
1988 Tempra Art Gallery, London, England
1988 The Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan
1986 Petra Bank Gallery, Amman, Jordan
1986 Marriott Hotel, Amman, Jordan
1984 The Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, Jordan
1983 Jordan Plastic Arts Association, Amman, Jordan
1982 Alia Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2025 “The Desert Has No Shadow”, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
2025 “No Silence in the Arts”, Oslo, Norway
2025 “Three Perspectives: A Feminine Narrative”, Khuzamah Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2025 “Hunna – Art Week of Riyadh”, Errm Art Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2024 “After Rain – Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale”, Diriyah Biennale Foundation, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2022 “Fahrelnissa and the Institutes: Towards a Sky”, Cultural Foundation-Abu Dhabi, UAE
2022 “Breaking the Borders by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Jordan”, Ras Al Ain Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2022 “Rowaq Art Week”, Rowaq Al-Balqa Foundation for Arts, Fuheis, Jordan
2021 “Abu Dhabi Art Fair”, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2021 “Swefieh Village Art Fair”, Amman, Jordan
2021 “Artists For Urban Change, The Recycle Art Festival”, Ras Al Ain Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2018 Art Dubai (Main Artist), Dubai, UAE
2018 The Corner, Amman, Jordan
2018 Nabad, Amman, Jordan
2016 Jordan National Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2015 “Woman I”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2015 “Arabic Calligraphy”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2013 “Together at the Studio”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2012 “Different Inspirations & Different Dreams”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2011 “Dialogue of Color”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2010 “Serenity”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2010 “Force of The Line”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2009 “Sketches and Drawings”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2008 “14 Artists”, Gallery 14, Amman, Jordan
2004 “Breaking the Veil, women painters from the Muslim world”, Milan, Italy
2004 “Breaking the Veil, women painters from the Muslim world”, Naples, Italy
2004 Painting, flower arrangement, Jordan National Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2004 Arab Painters, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
2004 Jordanian women painters, 4 Walls Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2004 “Breaking the veil, woman painters from the Muslim world”, Seville, Spain
2004 “Breaking the veil, woman painters from the Muslim world”, Valencia, Spain
2003 Jordanian Painters Association, Amman, Jordan
2003 “Breaking the veil, woman painters from the Muslim world”, Paris, France
2003 “Breaking the veil, woman painters from the Muslim world”, Athens, Greece
2003 The collection of the gallery, Jordan National Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2003 Darat Al- Funun , permanent collection, Amman, Jordan
2003 City Hall Jordanian Painters Association, Amman, Jordan
2002 Jordan National Gallery – 223 painters, Amman, Jordan
2002 Sharjah Biennale – Youth Club, Sharjah, UAE
2002 Sharjah Museum, Sharjah, UAE
2002 UNESCO Exhibition, Beirut, Lebanon
2002 International Biennale, Daka, Bangladesh
2002 “Breaking the veil, woman painters from the Muslim world”, Rhodes, Greece
2001 Jordanian Painters Association, Amman, Jordan
2001 Broadway Gallery, Amman, Jordan
2000 Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, UAE
2000 Modern Art Museum, Tehran, Iran
2000 Jordan National Gallery, Amman, Jordan
1999 Contemporary Arab Painters, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
1998 Jordanian Painters, Amman City Hall, Amman, Jordan
1998 Alumnae Exhibition, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
1998 Arab Painters Exhibition, Sharjah, UAE
1998 Contemporary Arab Painter, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
1997 Jordanian Painters, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
1997 Jordanian Painters, Amman City Hall, Amman, Jordan
1997 Summer Exhibition, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
1996 Jordanian Painters, Balanda Gallery, Amman, Jordan
1996 Jordanian Painters, Darat Al Funun , Amman, Jordan
1994/95 “Forces of Change, Arab Women Painters”, The National Museum of Women in the Arts-Washington, and Chicago, Atlanta, Florida, USA
1995 Jordanian Artists Exhibition – Woman International Day, Baladna Gallery, Amman, Jordan
1995 First Biennale for Love, Lattakia, Syria
1995 Jordanian Artist Exhibition, Milfield, England
1995 Jordanian Artist Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium
1995 Jordanian Artist Exhibition, Rowaq Al-Balqa Foundation for Arts, Fuheis, Jordan
1995 Jordanian Artist Exhibition, Jordan Plastic Arts Association, Amman, Jordan
1994 Six Artist from Jordan , Aba’d Gallery, Amman, Jordan
1993 Permanent Arab Artist Exhibition, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
1981 “Fahrelnissa Zeid and her Institutes”, Cultural Palace, Amman, Jordan
1981 Salon d’Automne, Paris, France
Early Summer I, 1989. Oil On Canvas, 90 x 60 cm. Collection Of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Ayla, 1975. Oil On Canvas, 80 × 85 cm. Collection of Barjeel Art Foundation
Hind Nasser Book 2024
