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Raya Kassisieh Born 1991 in Amman, Jordan. Lives and works between Amman and London.

Raya Kassisieh is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and writing. Rooted in Palestinian heritage and a background in textiles and pattern-making, her work contemplates the ongoing renegotiation of being, foregrounding the body's engagement with materials and process as its primary tool.

Working across metals, fibre, and pigment, in both intimate and industrial contexts, she treats lineage as a form of knowledge carried through touch and collective making. Her practice proposes the body as a pliable form shaped through labour, repetition, and material negotiation, and asks how established social hierarchies might be softened through interdependent modes of production.

Across paintings, objects, and large-scale installations, her work moves between inward, personal processes and expanded material systems, attending to thresholds between vulnerability, grief, and structure.

Kassisieh studied Fashion Design at Pratt Institute, New York, and completed an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London.

Recent exhibitions include Robilant Gallery, London (2026); SAMoCA, Riyadh (2026); the Islamic Art Biennale, Jeddah (2025); Hunna Art, Kuwait (2024); Bermondsey Project Space, London (2024); Bayt Al Mamzar, Dubai (2022); Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2022); and Hangar Space, Amman (2022).