Ali El-Chaer

Ali El-Chaer (b. 1995, they/he) is a trans diasporic Palestinian illustrator and painter, currently living in Nashville, TN. They received their bachelors in fine arts at Austin Peay State University (2018) and has since gone on to show their work in Jordan, South Africa, and New York. He has worked as assistant at Turnip Green Creative Reuse, the Frist Art Museum, and the Tennessee State Archives and then founded a community collective called Nour Nashville, catering towards political education, organizing, and outreach.

His present work has transitioned into tackling intense interpersonal emotions around the ongoing Palestinian genocide and continued displacement, pulling from archived political posters, Byzantine art, and Fayum mummies. Through their engagement with history, he has been able to reclaim and uncover lost traditions or books and offer it back up to a Palestinian audience; in one instance finding a lost portion of his family to reconnect with.