Beppu Contemporary Art Festival 2009 Mixed Bathing World

Adel Abdessemed

Born 1971,Constatine, Algeria.
The artist lives and works in New York, U.S.A.

Graduated from Fine Arts Academy of Lyon, Lyon, France in 1988.

After being born and raised in the Islamic world, the artist moved to France in 1995. He brings problems of the contemporary society from the perspectives of a minority as well as the joys living in this world.

He exhibited "EXIL" (exile in French), neon installations scattered around the venue, and "Wall Drawings," a work made of barbwire placed at the Arsenale venue, at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and received The Seventh Benesse Prize. He plans to plans to present works Naoshima and Echigotsumari in Japan. He also plans to exhibit works at the Modern Art Oxford in England in 2009. He is one of the most watched artists in the world.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Adel Abdessemed, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
Don't Trust Me, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, U.S.A.

2007
Adel Abdessemed - Poursuite, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Street Is My Heart, Liberia Borges Institute for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China

2006
Practice Zero Tolerance, La Criée Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
Adel Abdessemed, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Conversation, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2005
Holidays - God is Infinity, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Adel Abdessemed, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

2004
Habibi, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Le Citron et le Lait, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2003
Adel Abdessemed, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy

2002
Adel Abdessemed, Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, U.S.A.
Adel Abdessemed, Centre International d'Art et du Paysage, Vassivière, France

2001
Adel Abdessemed, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy
Adel Abdessemed, Project Room Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Can Art Do More?, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Traces du sacré: Art and Spirituality of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England
Always Begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland

2007
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Her (his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Arts, Athens, Greece
French Kissin' in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami, U.S.A.
Trans Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

2006
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Witnesses, Fundación Montenmedio Arte Contemporaneo, Càdiz, Spain
Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Between body and object, MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany

2005
Gott sehen, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Thurgau, Switzerland

2004
The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
Dimension Folly, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

2003
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Happiness, Mori Art Museum,Tokyo, Japan

2001
Uniform - Order and Disorder, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, U.S.A.
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan

2000
Pusan Biennial, Pusan, Korea
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1999
Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranea, Rome, Italy

1998
Josselyne Naef Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

1997
Carte Blanche, La Maison, Douai, France