KHALED SABSABI
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024
- KHALED SABSABI, The Lock-Up, Newcastle, Australia.
- KNOWING BEYOND, Fairfield Museum and Art Gallery, Fairfield, Australia.
2023
- UNSEEN, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2022
- RECENT WORKS, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
- A HOPE, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Arts NSW, Australia.
2020
- A PROMISE, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
2018
- A SELF PORTRAIT, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia.
2017
- MAJORITY MINORITY, Fairfield Museum and Art Gallery, Fairfield, Australia.
2016
- WE KILL YOU, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2014
- 70,000 VEILS, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
- 99, Peacock Gallery, Auburn, Australia.
- SYRIA, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
- MUSH, Islamic Museum of Australia, Melbourne, Australia.
2012
- KHALED SABSABI: RECENT WORKS, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
- MUSH, Art Space Sydney, Woolloomooloo, Australia.
2009
- INTEGRATION, ASSIMILATION AND A FAIR GO FOR ALL, Gallery 4A, Australia.
2007
- RESORT, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, New Zealand.
- ON`N’ ON, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Arts NSW, Australia.
2006
- RESORT, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2005
- ALI OR عLI, Casula Powerhouse and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Australia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025
- STOLON PRESS: FLAT EARTH, Monash University Museum of Art, Australia
2024
- THE VIEWS FROM HERE (PART 2), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Australia.
- INNER SANCTUM, 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia AGSA, Adelaide, Australia.
2023
- VOICE AGAINST REASON, at Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia.
2022
- THE ARENA, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, Australia.
- THE 67TH BLAKE PRIZE, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Australia.
- DESTINY DISRUPTED, Granville Centre Art Gallery, Australia.
- THIS LANGUAGE THAT IS EVERY STONE, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia.
2021
- HABITAT: WAYS OF LIVING, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australia.
2020
- OLDER THAN LAGUAGE, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia.
- DO IT (AUSTRALIA), Kaldor Public Art Project, Serpentine Galleries, London and Independent Curators International.
2019
- AUSTRALIA - ANTIPODEAN STORIES, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan Italy.
- KALDOR PROJECT 34 ABSORPTION BY ASAD RAZA, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia.
2018
- SUPERPOSITION: EQUILIBRIUM & ENGAGEMENT, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Australia.
- SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION, Sharjah, UAE.
- DARK HORIZONS, Abdul Abdullah, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah and Khaled Sabsabi, Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua City, Aotearoa / New Zealand.
2018
- ENOUGH خلص KHALAS: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN MUSLIM ARTISTS, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
- WAGT AL-TAGHEER: TIME OF CHANGE, ACE Open, Adelaide, Australia.
- DIVIDED WORLDS, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Adelaide, Australia.
2017
- THE NATIONAL, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
- Australasian Painters 2007 – 2017 Orange Regional Gallery (ORG) Orange, Australia.
- WE ARE ALL AFFECTED, Peacock Gallery, Auburn, Australia.
- UNDER THE SUN: REIMAGINING MAX DUPAIN’S SUNBAKER, Australian Centre for
- Photography, NSW State Library, Sydney, Australia.2017 ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE, Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Australia.
2016
- FORMING IN THE PUPIL OF AN EYE, 3rd Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India.
- FOR AN IMAGE, FASTER THAN LIGHT, 1st Yinchuan Biennale, MOCA, China.
- IT’S OUR THING, Blacktown Arts Centre, Australia.
- BEACHHEAD'S PEACE OF MIND, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand.
- DO IT, Sharjah Art Foundation Art Spaces, Sharjah, UAE.
2015
- 9/11, Moana, Perth, Australia.
- 24 FRAMES PER SECOND, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia.
- HOME HERE NOW, Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre, Dandenong, Australia.
- DISCO DOME, ICE exhibition, Sydney Festival, Parramatta, Australia.
2014
- EXPERIMENTA – RECHARGE, 6th international biennial of media Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
- GIVING VOICE, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Australia.
- BASIL SELLERS ART PRIZE 4, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne and The Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
- SUBJECT TO RUIN, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Australia.
- CONFLICT CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES TO WAR, The University of Queensland Art Museum, Australia.
- LET THE LIGHT IN, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, Sydney, Australia.
- WHERE ARE WE NOW, 5th Marrakech Biennale, Morocco.
- THE AUSTRALIAN PLATFORM, Art Stage Singapore.
2013
- TOWARDS A NEW CULTURAL CARTOGRAPHY, Sharjah Biennial 11, UAE.
2012
- TABOO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia.
- SHIFTING SANDS, Contemporary Art Centre of South (CACSA), Australia.
- REACTIVATION, 9th Shanghai Biennale, Gallery 4A Sydney Pavilion, China.
- ALL OUR RELATIONS, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and Cockatoo Island, Australia.
- EXCAVATION: The Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia.
- VOLUME ONE: MCA COLLECTION, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia.
- EDGE OF ELSEWHERE 3, Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Gallery 4A and University of Sydney, Australia.
2011
- GENERATIONS, Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, Australia.
- BLAKE ART PRIZE; National Art School, Sydney Australia.
- Medium Cool; Kudos Gallery, Sydney Australia.
- EDGE OF ELSEWHERE 2, Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Gallery 4A and University of Sydney, Australia.
2010
- HELEN LEMPRIERE SCHOLARSHIP, Artspace Sydney, Australia.
- PRESENT TENSE: AN IMAGINED GRAMMAR OF PORTRAITURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
- EDGE OF ELSEWHERE 1, Sydney Festival, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Gallery 4A and University of Sydney, Australia.
2009
- MAKING IT NEW: FOCUS ON CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ARTS, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
- OUT OF PLACE, LEBANESE ARTISTS IN THE DIASPORA, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin.
2008
- KHALED SABSABI & MAZEN KERBAJ, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia.
- TALES OF COLOUR from the personal to the political, Blacktown Arts centre.
2007
- SOUNDLAB DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL Rosario/Argentina 2007 & Valencia/Spain 2008.
- ASIA - EUROPE MEDIATIONS, Museum of Art, Poznan, Poland.
- SOFT POWER: ASIAN ATTITUDE, Contemporary art results from post-industrial society, MOCA, Shanghai, China.
- THE RESILIENT LANDSCAPE, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Australia.
- OVERSITE BEYOND EXCHANGE, BROADER THEN CITIES, Casula Powerhouse, Australia.
2006
- YEAR IN ART 2006, annual exhibition, National trust of Australia, S.H. Ervin Gallery,Sydney, Australia.
- MONOGRAPHIC SAMPLE OF ART AVERAGE, Calda University, UNESCO, Foundation Institute of Investigations of Image, Ministry of Culture Colombia.2006 D/LUX MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL, Sydney Opera House, Australia.
- INTERDIGITATE, the Moving Image Centre, Auckland, New Zealand.
- ASIA-PACIFIC DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL, gallery 4 A, Sydney, Australia.
- SELFPORTRAIT - A TOURING SHOW FOR BETHLEHEM - A SHOW FOR PEACE, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Naples, Italy.
2005
- MEMORY & IDENTITY AND VIOLENCE, SoundLab Channel, EDITION III, Germany and the 2nd Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina.
- ART IN THE AIR, Faucet Media Arts Centre & Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
- AV OUT, exhibition, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, Australia.
- HATCHED NATIONAL EXHIBITION, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Australia.
2004
- ELECTROFRINGE THE DEVIL IN DETAIL, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia.
2000
- EAST OF SOMEWHERE, visual arts exhibition, Casula Powerhouse, Australia.
1999
- LIVING HERE NOW ART & POLITICS, Y2K, Australian Perspecta, Sydney, Australia.
1998
- ARAB MADE EXHIBITION, Casula Powerhouse, Australia.
COLLECTIONS:
Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) and Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane QLD
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown NSW
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney NSW
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth WA
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney NSW
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool NSW
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown NSW
Australian War Memorial - AWM, Canberra ACT
Mosman Art Gallery, Mosman NSW
Civic collection City of Sydney, NSW
Birpai Local Aboriginal Land Council
Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum, Casoria
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
• Chrisoula Lionis, ‘Insurgence of the ‘Politizen’; Broadsheet: contemporary visual art + culture; 2007.
• Naomi Gall, ‘ON' n 'ON’ Artlink, Fuel for Thought: oil, energy, conflict and art, Issue 28:1 March
2008.
• David McNeil, ‘Khaled Sabsabi, or how to tell when you’re listening to a fool’, Broadsheet:
contemporary visual art + culture, March 2008.
• P. Tabar and J. Skulte-Ouasis, Politics, Culture and the Lebanese Diaspora, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing 2010.
• S. Fernandes, ‘Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation’, Verso 2011.
• Farid Farid, ‘Unrequited Language’ Artlink, Diaspora, Issue 31:1 March 2011.
• Pedro de Almeida, ‘Everything and nothing’, BROADSHEET, vol. 42.2, June 2013.
• Andrew Yip, ‘Peacefender’, Artlink, Art & War: Badlands, Issue 35:1 March 2015.
• Kon Gouriotis, ‘Khaled Sabsabi’ Artist Profile, Issue-33 by Lucy Stranger February 2016.
• Kon Gouriotis, ‘Khaled Sabsabi Wins International Shajah Prize’, Artist Profile issue 33, March 2016.
• Chari Larsson, ‘Multitude, Solitude: Khaled Sabsabi’s ‘Crowds’, Di’van, December 2017.
• Genevieve O'Callaghan, The National 2017: New Australian art, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South
Wales; Museum of Contemporary Art; Carriageworks; 2017.
• Julie Ewington, 'The state of our art', The Monthly, May 2017.
• Kon Gouriotis, Australasian Painters, 2007-2017, Orange Regional Gallery and Artist Profile, June
2017.
• Green, Erica, Divided worlds: 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian art, 2018.
• John Mateer ‘Khaled Sabsabi: A Self Portrait’, Art Link, August 2018.
• Kon Gouriotis, ‘Khaled Sabsabi ‘, Artist Profile, December 2020.
• Stephanie Berlangieri, ‘We Came Whirling: Khaled Sabsabi’s A Hope’, Artist Profile, Issue 57, 2021.
• Khaled Sabsabi Book, Publisher: Bandicoot Books - ISBN: 9780645131918, March 2022.
• Farid Farid, ‘Khaled Sabsabi’, Artist Profile issue 65, March 2024.
AWARDS:
• Australia Council for the Arts Community Cultural Development Fellowship 2001.
• The Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2010.
• The 60th annual Blake Prize in 2011.
• The 52nd Fishers Ghost Prize in 2014.
• The National Sports Museum Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellowship 2014.
• ARTS NSW Western Sydney Arts Fellowship 2015.
• Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme 2016.
• International Council of Museums' and Heritage Awards, Video Art Prize 2016.
• University of NSW Annual Alumni Award ‘Art and Culture’ 2019.
• The Copyright Agency Cultural Fund Visual Arts Fellowship 2020.
• Creative Australia ‘Annual Visual Arts Award’ 2023.
• Mosman Art Prize The Margaret Olley Commendation Award 2024.
• Mordant Family and Creative Australia American Academy Rome Affiliated Fellowship 2024.
