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(b. 1979)

 

EDUCATION

2010    MFA in Painting, Boston University, Boston, MA

2004    Jerusalem Studio School, Jerusalem, Israel

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & SITE-RESPONSIVE INSTALLATIONS

2023    Little Deaths, RX&Slag, Paris, France

2022    Canon in Drag, Slag&RX, New York, NY

2018    Close One Eye, Slag&RX, Brooklyn, NY

2017    Volta NY, Slag&RX, New York, NY

2016    Terminal, BRIC Arts Media House, Brooklyn, NY

2015    Rites (Two Person), Slag&RX, Brooklyn, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    The Invention of Truth, 601 Gallery, New York, NY; Participating Artists: Tirtzah Bassel, Omer Fast, Louise Lawler, Katie Paterson, Sarah Peters, Zorawar Sidhu, Kara Walker, Betty Woodman.  

            Sacré, RX&Slag, Paris, France 

            The Rule of Five, Slag&RX, New York

            From the Eyes of Her, Port Authority and New York City and Culture Club, New York, NY

2023    Milk Tongue, Martin-Mullen Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, NY

2022    PLATFORM (David Zwirner Partnership), New York, NY

            Tomorrow’s Women, Natasha Arselan Gallery, London, UK

2021    Curated Choice: Female Figuration, ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark

            Unconquerable Women, Martha’s Contemporary, Austin TX; Curator: Katarina Janeckova

2020    Domestic Brutes, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY

2019    Volta Basel, Slag Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2017    Four New York Painters, Kunstverein Worms & Kunstverein Vierhnheim, Germany

2016    Home Land Security, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA

2015    Adhere, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024    The Brooklyn Rail, The Queer Imagination, Then and Now, The Irving Sandler Essay Series, Christopher T. Richards, Edited by Alexander Nagel, July/August 2024

2023    Milk Tongue Exhibition Catalog, essays by Sallie Han, Ashley Cooper, and Carrie Mae Smith, Martin-Mullen Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY, January-March 2023

2022    ARTNews, Canon in Drag: Female Artists Reimagine Famous Works by Men, Karen Chernick, December 26, 2023

            The Brooklyn Rail, Tirtzah Bassel: Canon in Drag, Christopher T. Richards, November 2022

2021    BBC Radio 4: Front Row, Artist Tirtzah Bassel's Canon in Drag reimagines art history without the patriarchy, July 20th

            Lilith Magazine, Artist Tirtzah Bassel’s Female Gaze, Susan Schur, November 15th, 2021

            The Art Newspaper, Canon in drag: Tirtzah Bassel reimagines art history without the patriarchy, Chernick, Karen, July 7th

            Rethinking Painting, essays by Nancy Princenthal, Raphael Rubinstein, Jutta Koether, Barry Schwabsky, edited by Joan Waltemath, The LeRoy Hofflberger School of Painting at MICA

2020    The Journal News, Pelham exhibit ‘a realistic picture of what it means to be a woman today’, Michelle Falkenstein, September 16th 

2018    Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Die Stille Vor Dem Blick: Aktuelle Ausstellungen die Israelische Malerin Tirtzah Bassel - jetzt in der Galerie Thomas Fuchs - wird sich die Kunstwelt erobern, Nikolai B. Forstbauer, October 19 2018

            Stuttgarter Zeitung, Einmal Waschen und Legen, Galerienotizen, Dr. Georg Leisten, October 5th

2017    Le Monde Diplomatique, Artist of the Month, Wilhelm Werthern, December 7th

            Wormser Zeitung, New Yorker Kunst in Worms und Viernheim, Sophia Rishyna, April 4th 

2016    SFAQ, Home Land Security at the Presidio, Gabrielle Gopinath, December 15th

            Hyperallergic, Stories of War and Survival Unfold in San Francisco’s Presidio, Thea Quiray Tagle, November 16th

            ArtLtd Magazine, Report: San Francisco, Leora Lutz, November 

            Freize Magazine, Home Land Security, Rob Marks, October 24th 

            KQED, “Artwork and Setting Depict Post-9/11 World,” Matthew Harrison Tedford, September 26th

            SF Weekly, “For-site is 20/20,” Jonathan Curiel, September 22nd 

            The Bay Area Reporter,“Coastal Art Installations,” Sura Wood, September 15th 

            KQED Forum, “Homeland Security Installation Comes to San Francisco’s Presidio Barracks,” Michael Krasny, September 13th 

            The Art Newspaper, “Political Art That Packs A Punch,” Jori Finkel, September 9th 

            Curbed SF, “Exclusive Look at Art inside Presidio’s Abandoned Bunkers,” Adam Brinklow, September 

            San Fransisco Chronicle, “Foundation Puts Ballistics Test Inside Mothballed Presidio Bunker,” Sam Whiting, September 7th 

            C Magazine, “Safe Haven,” Leilani Labong, September 

            SF/ARTS, “New Presidio Exhibit Illuminates Complex Social Issues,” Jean Schiffman, September 2016

            San Francisco Magazine, “Make Art Not War,” Annie Tittiger, September 

            The New York Times, A ‘Home Land Security’ Art Show, at the Foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, Jori Finkel, June 23rd 

            KQED, Ex-Military Bunkers to Host Major Group Exhibition in San Francisco, Chloe Veltman, June 23rd

            San Francisco Chronicle, For-Site Show coming to Presidio in September, Sam Whiting, June 23rd 

            Al Jazeera English,  “Artists Exhibit Work in Historic Bunkers,” Allen Schauffler , September 29, 2016

            NBC Bay Area,  “Presidio Exhibit Gives Artful Twist to Homeland Security,” Joe Rostao, Nov. 23, 2016

            San Francisco Chronicle,  “Exhibits Inside Soaring Cathedral, Stark Bunkers,” Charles Desmarais, December 14, 2016

            The Creators Project, “That Time Art Took Over a Military Complex,” Tanja M. Laden, January 3, 2017

            BK Live, Tirtzah Bassel’s Duct Tape Art, March 17th 

2014    The Boston Globe, BU’s Abstract Ace Shows His Stripes, Cate McQuaid, December 2nd 

            Arts in Bushwick, An Odd Symbiosis: Action in Non-Action, Etty Yaniv, April 23rd 

            The Huffington Post, Tirtzah Bassel Transforms Duct Tape, Vanessa Albury, March 26th 

2013    Hyperallergic, The Miami Fairs, Rendered in Duct Tape, Jillian Steinhauer, December 5th 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018–Present Faculty, Visual and Critical Studies, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

 

LECTURES & PANELS

2022    Artist Panel: Birthing Bodies/Birthing Art, University of New Hampshire

            Visiting Artist, Visual Arts Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA

2018    Visiting Artist, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2017    Visiting Artist, Print Media Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI.

2016    Visiting Artist, Parsons The New School of Design, New York, NY

2015    Visiting Artist, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, PA

            Visiting Artist Lecture, L.E. Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2014    Visiting Artist Lecture, Nassum Community College, Garden City, NY 

2013    Visiting Artist Lecture Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

            Visiting Artist Lecture Davidson College, Davidson, NC

 

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2025           Peleh Residency Fellowship, Berkeley, CA           

2010–2024 Studio Residency, Chashama Workspace Program, Brooklyn, NY
2013, 2016 Asylum Arts, International Artist Retreat, Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY 

2011–2012 LABA Artist Fellowship, 14th Street Y, New York, NY

2011           Artist Residency, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, CT