CV
Upcoming:
Group Exhibition, BRITTA RETTBERG, Munich, 2024
Black Church Process Residency, Dublin, 2024
3 person show with Jennifer Mehigan and Caoimhin Gaffney, GOMA, Waterford, 2025
Solo Exhibitions
you are in heaven but suddenly everything begins to burn, Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow, 2024
Uncensored Lilac, Silent Green, Transmediale, 2024 (in collaboration with Jennifer Mehigan)
A Scream Floats Among the Flowers, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth, 2023
IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THIS! The Douglas Hyde, 2022
Online solo exhibition, AEMI Online, 2022
I AM ERROR, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, 2022
I AM ERROR, Gasworks, London, 2021
Longing, Beyond, Offsite solo event with Glucksman museum, Cork, 2021
Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2019
Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset, the LAB, Dublin, 2018
The dust carried me into the watchful summer, Eight Gallery, Dublin 2017
Solo Screenings
Solo screening as part of Artist Film International: the Crawford Art Gallery & the Whitechapel, 2022
Solo screening of 2 films, The Dock, Carrick-On-Shannon, 2021
Online screening of “Fenced Within the Silent Cold Walls”, The Douglas Hyde, 2021
Screening at TBG+S followed by artist talk with curator Michael Hill, Dublin, 2019
Selected Group Exhibitions
Ctrl + ↑ for Coyote Time, Trafó Gallery Gallery,Budapest, 2024
Maslow’s Hammer, Pallas projects, Dublin, 2023
Prix Ars Electronica: main exhibition, Linz, Austria, 2023
TERRAIN, Beta Festival, The Digital Depot, 2023
Material parables, Draiocht, Dublin, 2023
GATEWAYS, Online Exhibition with Vital Capacities, 2023
Flower in the Wind, Belmacz Gallery, London, 2023
Invited Artist, RHA Annual Exhibition, 2023
Portals, Luan Gallery, Athlone, 2023
Swallowing Geography, Regional Cultural Centre and Glebe House & Gallery, Donegal, 2022
Curdle, The Courthouse Gallery. Clare, 2022
Uphold: New Collections, 35DP, Belfast, 2022
A Collection of Conversations, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 2022
Fantasmagoriana, LIAF Biennale, Lofoten, Norway, 2022
Cosmic Rays, PEEL GALLERY, Chapel Hill, USA, 2022
A Public Skin, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, 2022
Living Canvas, Wilton Park, Dublin, 2022
Social Fabric, IMMA, Dublin, 2021
Hestia, Bis44, curated by Sacha Guedj Cohen, Paris, 2021
Queer Embodiment, IMMA, Dublin 2021
Group exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre, 2022
Jackie McKenna, Bassam Al-Sabah & Atoosa Pour Hosseini, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2021
Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 2021
I am What I Am, Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo, 2021
Here in This Room, Site Gallery, Sheffield 2021
On Belonging, The Library Project curated by Diana Bamimeke, Dublin, 2021
Turas, Glebe Gallery, Donegal, 2021
Sam’s Eden, Group show in the form of a book, Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2021
Transmediale: for refusal, Berlin 2021
Human, 126 Gallery, Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran, Galway, 2020
Dissolving Histories, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2020
Metamorphosis: Characters in Collision, Glór, Ennis, 2020
Dun Laoghaire collection exhibition, dlr LexIcon, Dun Laoghaire 2020
In the Age of Conscious Makers, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, 2019
A Fiction Close to Reality, IMMA, Dublin, 2019
Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas projects, Dublin, 2018
Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, Royal Hibernian Acadamy, Dublin, 2018
Syntonic State, Tulca 18, Curated by Linda Shevlin, Galway 2018
Drop Everything, Aras Eanna Arts Centre, Galway 2018
VUE art fair, RHA Gallery, Dublin, 2018
Stream, The Complex, Dublin, 2017
RDS Visual Arts Awards, curated by Alice Maher, RDS Concert Hall, Dublin, 2016
I Am Doing Things, IADT Dun Laoghaire, 2016
Juvenoia, Pallas Projects and Studios, Dublin, 2015
Islands, The Mart, Dublin, 2015
Separate, The Mart, Dublin, 2014
Imagination, The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire, 2013
Group Screenings
Group Screening, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, 2024
Frames of Rebellion, SPARE WHEEL, Brussels, 2024
Both Sides Now VIII: Queer Realities/Virtualities: 1/F Kino, Eaton Hong Kong, The Horse Hospital, London, Esea Contemporary, Manchester, and Fabrica Gallery, Brighton, 2023
8K Deep Space, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2023
Group screening, DA/S festival, Switzerland, 2023
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, online, Berlin, 2022
Queer City Cinema, Canada, 2022
Sentient Encounters, AKI Academy of Art and Design, Enschede, 2022
Visual Viscera: Embodied Subjectives, The Barbican Centre, London. 2022
Cooper Gallery, Sheffield, 2021
Jue De Paume, Paris, 2021
SQIFF, Scotland, 2021
EX-choice 4, EX-IS, Korea, 2021
Out Of Doors, Transmediale, Berlin 2021
Residencies
Vital Capacities, Online residency, UK, 2023
Image-Maker in Residence, The Sociological Review, 2022
3-year membership studio, Temple Bar Gallery, and Studios, 2022
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 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, Dublin, 2020
Artist talk, NCAD, Dublin, 2020
Visiting Lecturer, IADT, Dublin 2020
Panel Discussion with Georgina Jackson and Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, The LAB, Dublin 2020
Panel Discussion with Chloe Brenan, Catriona Leahy, chaired by Dr. Pamela Whitaker, TBG+S, 2019
Artist talk with collections curator Claire Walshe, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, 2019
Artist Talk, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2019
Visiting Lecturer, GMIT the MA Creative Practice Visiting Lecturer programme, Galway, 2018
Panel discussion with Joy Gerrard and Kevin Atherton chaired by Sarah O’Neill, RHA, Dublin, 2018
Visiting Lecturer, IADT, Dublin, 2017
Artist Talk, Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2017
Cruinniú na Cásca, panel discussion chaired by Cristín Leach, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2017
Awards
Award Of distinction, Prix Ars Electronica, 2023
Arts Council Visual Arts Project Award, 2023, 2022
Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
Golden Fleece Award, 2021
Fingal Artist Bursary, 2020, 2019, 2018
AFAC Visual Arts Grant, 2018
Publications and reviews
Interview for Coeval Magazine by Alice Minervini, 2024
Rendering Goddesses, Berlin Art Link, 2023
Shimmer – Bassam Al-Sabah, Totally Dublin, Jan 2023
Interview with Katherine Volk for Canvas Magazine, Nov 2022
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
Exhibition highlights of the year, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, Dec 2018
A lively look at the state of Irish contemporary visual art, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 2018
Bleeders: review of Film “Fenced Within the Silent Cold Walls”, James Merrigan, 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
Exhibition highlights of the year, Margarita Cappock, Irish Arts Review, Winter Issue 2018/2019
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
RDS Visual Arts Awards: encouraging a new generation by Gemma Tipton, 2016
Video Review of Dublin Degree Shows by James Merrigan, 2016
Collections
Irish Museum Of Modern Art
Arts Council of Ireland Collection
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Private Collections