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Solo Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n THE MISSION IS THE END, THE END IS ALL I WANT!, FACT, Liverpool, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Biolytic Daughter, VSSL Studio, London, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n you are in heaven but suddenly everything begins to burn, Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uncensored Lilac, IT Server Hotel Heidelberg, IFFMH, Germany, 2024,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uncensored Lilac, Silent Green, Transmediale, 2024 (in collaboration with Jennifer Mehigan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Scream Floats Among the Flowers, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n IT\u2019S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE, TAKE THIS! The Douglas Hyde, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Online solo exhibition, AEMI Online, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n I AM ERROR, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n I AM ERROR, Gasworks, London, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Longing, Beyond, Offsite solo event with Glucksman museum, Cork, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dissolving Beyond the Worm Moon, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset, the LAB, Dublin, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n The dust carried me into the watchful summer, Eight Gallery, Dublin 2017 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Selected Group Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Let Things Go: Relations of Relations, the 4th Seoul Art & Tech Festival Unfold X 2025, Seoul, Korea, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n the soft fall of land, The Library Project, Dublin, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n To Be Spat Back out, GOMA, Waterford, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreward, Centre For The Image\/PhotoIreland, Dublin, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Pieces: Navigating the Body in Contemporary Irish, The Glucksman Museum, Cork, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Land, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Footfalls, BRITTA RETTBERG, Munich, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ctrl + \u2191 for Coyote Time, Traf\u00f3 Gallery Gallery,Budapest, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maslow\u2019s Hammer, Pallas projects, Dublin, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Prix Ars Electronica: main exhibition, Linz, Austria, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n TERRAIN, Beta Festival, The Digital Depot, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Material parables, Draiocht, Dublin, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n GATEWAYS, Online Exhibition with Vital Capacities, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Flower in the Wind, Belmacz Gallery, London, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Invited Artist, RHA Annual Exhibition, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Portals, Luan Gallery, Athlone, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Swallowing Geography, Regional Cultural Centre and Glebe House & Gallery, Donegal, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Curdle, The Courthouse Gallery. Clare, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uphold: New Collections, 35DP, Belfast, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Collection of Conversations, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fantasmagoriana, LIAF Biennale, Lofoten, Norway, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cosmic Rays, PEEL GALLERY, Chapel Hill, USA, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Public Skin, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Living Canvas, Wilton Park, Dublin, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Social Fabric, IMMA, Dublin, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hestia, Bis44, curated by Sacha Guedj Cohen, Paris, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Queer Embodiment, IMMA, Dublin 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jackie McKenna, Bassam Al-Sabah & Atoosa Pour Hosseini, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Refuge, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am What I Am, Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here in This Room, Site Gallery, Sheffield 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Belonging, The Library Project curated by Diana Bamimeke, Dublin, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Turas, Glebe Gallery, Donegal, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sam\u2019s Eden, Group show in the form of a book, Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Transmediale: for refusal, Berlin 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Human, 126 Gallery, Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran, Galway, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dissolving Histories, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metamorphosis: Characters in Collision, Gl\u00f3r, Ennis, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dun Laoghaire collection exhibition, dlr LexIcon, Dun Laoghaire 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Age of Conscious Makers, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Fiction Close to Reality, IMMA, Dublin, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas projects, Dublin, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, Royal Hibernian Acadamy, Dublin, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Syntonic State, Tulca 18, Curated by Linda Shevlin, Galway 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drop Everything, Aras Eanna Arts Centre, Galway 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n VUE art fair, RHA Gallery, Dublin, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stream, The Complex, Dublin, 2017 <\/p>\n\n\n\n RDS Visual Arts Awards, curated by Alice Maher, RDS Concert Hall, Dublin, 2016 <\/p>\n\n\n\n I Am Doing Things, IADT Dun Laoghaire, 2016 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Juvenoia, Pallas Projects and Studios, Dublin, 2015 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Islands, The Mart, Dublin, 2015 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Separate, The Mart, Dublin, 2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Imagination, The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire, 2013 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Solo Screenings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Solo screening as part of Artist Film International: the Crawford Art Gallery & the Whitechapel, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Solo screening of 2 films, The Dock, Carrick-On-Shannon, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Online screening of \u201cFenced Within the Silent Cold Walls\u201d, The Douglas Hyde, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Screening at TBG+S followed by artist talk with curator Michael Hill, Dublin, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group Screenings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n DEMONS REVENGE, Nguyen Art Foundation, Vietnam, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group Screening, Le Cr\u00e9dac, Paris, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Glittering Wormholes, Heavenly Ruptures, The Entirety Becomes a Glitch, Care-fuffle, online, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n skins on my bodies, Blickle Kino at Belvedere 21, Vienna, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group Screening, Ho\u0161ek Contemporary, Berlin, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Frames of Rebellion, SPARE WHEEL, Brussels, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8K Deep Space, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Group screening, DA\/S festival, Switzerland, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, online, Berlin, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Queer City Cinema, Canada, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sentient Encounters, AKI Academy of Art and Design, Enschede, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visual Viscera: Embodied Subjectives, The Barbican Centre, London. 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cooper Gallery, Sheffield, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jue De Paume, Paris, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n SQIFF, Scotland, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n EX-choice 4, EX-IS, Korea, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Out Of Doors, Transmediale, Berlin 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Residencies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n RHA\/Wilton park studio residency, 2025-27<\/p>\n\n\n\n Black Church Process Residency, Dublin, 2024-2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Micro Residency, Cow House Studios, Ireland, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vital Capacities, Online residency, UK, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image-Maker in Residence, The Sociological Review, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3-year membership studio, Temple Bar Gallery, and Studios, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cit\u00e9 Internationale des Arts Paris, Institut Fran\u00e7ais, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gasworks studio residency award 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fingal RHA studio award, 2019-2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Temple Bar Gallery Graduate Residency Award, 2018 \u2013 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n RHA Graduate Studio Award, 2016- 2017 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist Talks and lecturing<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Nina Davies in conversation with Nora O\u2019Murcho, FACT, Liverpool, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist talk, IADT\/National Film School, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist talk, RHA students, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Creativity & the Technical Tendency, Beta Festival Conference, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prix Forum New Animation Art will feature Golden Nica winner Ayoung Kim (KR), Award of Distinction Bassam Issa Al-Sabah (IE) and SANGHEE (KR) as speakers. The panel will be moderated by Jury members N\u00f3ra \u00d3 Murch\u00fa (IE) and Helen Starr (UK), Linz, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan in conversation with Georgina Jackson, DHG, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist talk, Young Art Writers, Dublin, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist talk, NCAD, Dublin, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visiting Lecturer, IADT, Dublin 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panel Discussion with Georgina Jackson and Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll, The LAB, Dublin 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panel Discussion with Chloe Brenan, Catriona Leahy, chaired by Dr. Pamela Whitaker, TBG+S, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist talk with collections curator Claire Walshe, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist Talk, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visiting Lecturer, GMIT the MA Creative Practice Visiting Lecturer programme, Galway, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panel discussion with Joy Gerrard and Kevin Atherton chaired by Sarah O\u2019Neill, RHA, Dublin, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Visiting Lecturer, IADT, Dublin, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist Talk, Hugh Lane, Dublin, 2017 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Cruinni\u00fa na C\u00e1sca, panel discussion chaired by Crist\u00edn Leach, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2017 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Awards<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Award Of distinction, Prix Ars Electronica, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arts Council Visual Arts Project Award, 2023, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Golden Fleece Award, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fingal Artist Bursary, 2020, 2019, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n AFAC Visual Arts Grant, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n Publications and reviews<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview: Hyperreal Surfaces, Dissolving Bodies: Exploring CGI and Myth in Bassam Issa Al-Sabah\u2019s Work, Interview by Alexander Burenkov, Umbigo.Space, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah: The Mission is the End, The End is All I Want! , Canvas Magazine, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Review: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah: The Mission is the End, The End is All I Want! , ArtInLiverpool, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, ARTFRIDGE, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, ARTVERGE, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview for Coeval Magazine by Alice Minervini, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rendering Goddesses, Berlin Art Link, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shimmer \u2013 Bassam Al-Sabah, Totally Dublin, Jan 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Interview with Katherine Volk for Canvas Magazine, Nov 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Article on I AM ERROR, Kevin Brazil, Paper Visual Art, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist Feature, Melissa Gronlund, The National, August 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n