Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first-generation Palestinian artist and cultural worker, born and raised in Portland, OR, on the traditional lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Cowlitz, and many others.
She works with individuals, communities, and the land to reclaim our right to sacred spaces through land tending, floristry, environmental design, dance, ritual, risk, and tenderness. Flowers are her deepest ally and primary medium.
She works as a regenerative flower farmer, florist, cultural producer, event designer, and installation artist. Alexandria is currently stewarding the Black Oregon Land Trust and serves as the Director of Arts and Culture at The Center for Study and Preservation of Palestine. In October 2023, she founded the Flowers for Palestine mutual aid project in Portland and continues to produce local activations.
Alexandria is a multimedia performance artist, art director, and set designer whose practice is hybrid, incorporating dance, performance art, film, installation, happenings, event design, photography, and other visual forms.
Her practice holds space for the intimate to become a window into the universal & cosmic; Inviting the collective experience to eclipse individual subjectivity and allow for an evolved empathetic process.
