CV
Upcoming:
Solo Exhibition, The Douglas Hyde, 2022
Group exhibition, The Courthouse Gallery, 2022
Solo Exhibition, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, 2023
Solo Exhibitions
Dissolving Beyond The Worm Moon, AEMI Online, 2022
I AM ERROR, De La Warr Pavillion, 2022
I AM ERROR, Gasworks, 2021
Longing, Beyond, Offsite solo event with Glucksman museum, Cork, 2021
Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon, Solstice Arts Centre, Sep 2019
Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset, the LAB, Mar 2018
The dust carried me into the watchful summer, Eight Gallery, Sep 2017
Selected Group Exhibitions
Group exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre, 2022
A Public Skin, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, 2022
Cosmic Rays, PEEL GALLERY, Chapel Hill, USA, 2022
Living Canvas, Wilton Park, Dublin, 2022
Group exhibition, Social Fabric, IMMA, Nov 2021
Hestia, Bis44, Paris, curated by Sacha Guedj Cohen, 2021
Queer Embodiment, IMMA, 2021
Jackie McKenna, Bassam Al-Sabah & Atoosa Pour Hosseini, The Dock, 2021
Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, 2021
I am What I Am, Ballina Arts Centre, 2021
Here in This Room, Site Gallery, 2021
On Belonging, The Library Project curated by Diana Bamimeke, Feb 2021
Turas, Glebe Gallery, Donegal, 2021
Sam’s Eden, Group show in the form of a book, Catalyst Arts, 2021
Transmediale: for refusal, 2021
Human, 126 Gallery, Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran, 2020
Dissolving Histories, Golden Thread Gallery Curated by Peter Richards and Mary Cremin, Feb 2020
Metamorphosis: Characters in Collision, Glór, Ennis, 2020
Dun Laoghaire collection exhibition, dlr LexIcon, Feb 2020
In the Age of Conscious Makers, NCAD Gallery, 2019
A Fiction Close to Reality, IMMA, 2019
Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas projects, Dec 2018
Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, Royal Hibernian Acadamy, Nov 2018
Syntonic State, Tulca 18, Curated by Linda Shevlin, Nov 2018
Drop Everything, Aras Eanna Arts Centre, 2018
Stream, The Complex, 2017
RDS Visual Arts Awards, curated by Alice Maher, RDS Concert Hall, 2016
I Am Doing Things, IADT Dun Laoghaire, 2016
Juvenoia, Pallas Projects and Studios, 2015
Solo Screenings
Solo screening of 2 films, The Dock, 2021
Online screening of “Fenced Within the Silent Cold Walls”, The douglas Hyde, 2021
Screening “dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon” at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios followed by artist talk with curator Michael Hill, 2019
Group Screenings
Visual Viscera: Embodied Subjectives, The Barbican centre, london, 2022
Group Screening, Cooper Gallery, Sheffield, 2021
Group screening, Jue De Paume, Paris, 2021
Group Screening, SQIFF, Scotland, 2021
EX-choice 4, EX-IS, Korea, 2021
Out Of Doors, Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2021
Residencies
3-year membership studio, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, residency, Institut Français, 2021
Gasworks studio residency award 2021
Fingal RHA studio award 2019-2020
Temple Bar Gallery Graduate Residency Award, 2018 – 2019
RHA Graduate Studio Award, 2016- 2017
Artist Talks and lecturing
- Artist talk, Young art writers, 2020
- artist talk, NCAD, October 2020
- Visiting Lecturer, IADT, February 2020
- Panel Discussion with Georgina Jackson and Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, The LAB, 2020
- Panel Discussion with Chloe Brenan, Catriona Leahy, chaired by Dr. Pamela Whitaker, Making Connections Seminar, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, 2019
- Artist talk with collections curator Claire Walshe, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, 2019
- Artist Talk, Solstice Arts Centre, 2019
- Visiting Lecturer, GMIT as part of the MA Creative Practice Visiting Lecturer programme, November 2018
- Panel discussion with Joy Gerrard and Kevin Atherton chaired by Sarah O’Neill, RHA, May 2018
- Visiting Lecturer, IADT, November 2017
- Artist Talk, Hugh Lane, June 2017
- Cruinniú na Cásca, panel discussion chaired by Cristín Leach, Dublin Castle, April 2017
Awards
Arts council Visual arts bursary award, 2021
Golden Fleece Award, 2021
Fingal Artist Bursary, 2020
Arts council Visual arts bursary award, 2020
Fingal Artist Bursary, 2019
Arts council Visual arts bursary award, 2019
AFAC Visual Arts Grant, 2018
Fingal Artist Bursary, 2018
Arts council Visual arts bursary award, 2018
Publications and reviews
- Article on I AM ERROR, Kevin Brazil, Paper Visual Art, 2021
- Artist Feature, Melissa Gronlund, The National, August 2021
- Bassam Al-Sabah’s Shapeshifting Avatars, Chris Hayes, Frieze Magazine, Sep 2021
- Rose Tinted Nostalgia, Aidan Kelly Murphy, Visual Artist Newsletter, Sep 2019
- Review of TULCA, Syntonic State, Aine Phillips, Visual Artists’ Newsletter, Jan 2019
- Art is thriving in a time of cultural disruption: Exhibition highlights of the year, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Dec 2018
- Pallas Periodical Review: a lively look at the state of Irish contemporary visual art, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Dec 2018
- Bleeders: review of Film “Fenced Within the Silent Cold Walls”, James Merrigan, I AM NOT A PAINTER, Dec 2018
- Review of TULCA, Syntonic State, Catherine Harty, Circa Art Magazine, Dec 2018
- High anxiety and the fine art of falling apart, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Nov 2018
- Existential Show for Our Times, Cristin Leach, Sunday Times Culture, 25th November 2018
- Welcome to the Future, Padraic E Moore, Irish Arts Review, Winter Issue 2018/2019
- People and Places: Exhibition highlights of the year, Margarita Cappock, Irish Arts Review, Winter Issue 2018/2019
- Finding the Line, Interview with Bassam Al-Sabah, Cecilia Danell and Marcel Vidal by Joanne Laws, VAN, 2018
- From Iraq to Ireland: UFO Robot Grendizer and visual artist Bassam Al-Sabah, 2018
- Review of “Illusion of Love Dyed by Sunset”, Circa Art Magazine, By Suzanne Walsh, 2018
- Five star review of “Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset”, The Irish Times by Aidan Dunne, 2018
- The dust carried me into the watchful summer featured in the Irish Times by Gemma Tipton, 2017
- 50 people to watch in 2017 by Gemma Tipton, 2017
Collections
Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Irish Arts Council’s Collection and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council