Bassam Issa Al-Sabah works across digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles creating visions of resistance, transformation and queer possibility. He completed a BA in Visual Art Practice from Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in 2016.
Recent solo exhibitions include: you are in heaven but suddenly everything begins to burn, Kunstverein Aughrim (2024) Uncensored Lilac, Transmediale, Silent Green (2024) ITS DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2022) I AM ERROR, Gasworks, London (2021), and De La Warr Pavilion, Sussex (2022); Dissolving Beyond The Worm Moon, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (2019); and Illusions of Love Dyed by Sunset, The LAB, Dublin (2018).
Recent group exhibitions include Queer Embodiment and Social Fabric at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2021-2022), The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (2021) and Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2020). Recent screenings include the Barbican, London (2022), Transmediale, Berlin (2021), EX-IS, South Korea (2021) and Jeu de Paume, Paris (2021).
His work is part of collections in IMMA, the Arts Council of Ireland and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. In 2023 he received an award of distinction in New Animation Art from Prix Ars Electronica and In 2021 he received the Golden Fleece Award.
He is currently a studio member at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Al-Sabah lives and works in Dublin.
