Hammzat Tahabsim (b. 1997, Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian artist of Iraqi and Circassian descent whose work probes the intersections of displacement, cultural memory, and the contested legacies of modernism. Rooted in painting and expanded through textile-based materials such as wool and silk, his practice traverses the visual lexicon of the past 150 years—from academic figuration to spiritual abstraction—reassembling its codes into spectral figures and transfigured terrains.

Drawing on data, ornament, and devotional iconography, Tahabsim composes layered surfaces that test the limits of perception: porous, luminous, and insistently alive. His images inhabit the liminal zones between material and apparition, certainty and dissolution, authority and fragility. What emerges is a language attuned to the metaphysical and political structures that shape how we see, remember, and believe.

His process is at once rigorous and intuitive—anchored in a deep attention to color and surface, yet open to the improvisations of touch, memory, and chance. Through this interplay, Tahabsim offers a mode of seeing that is both embodied and speculative—undoing the familiar in search of something spiritually and sensually resonant.

Tahabsim is currently an MFA candidate at Boston University, where he studies on a merit scholarship. He was previously awarded the Presidential Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for his graduate studies. He lives and works between Boston and Amman.

2022 – Presidential Merit Award, School of the Art Institute Chicago.

2024 – School of Visual Arts merit scholarship, Boston University

• 2022 –  In her Orbit, AARS (Artzotic Art Residency Space), Amman, Jordan
• 2022 – In Her Orbit, Mohammed and Mahera Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, Amman, Jordan