TIRTZAH BASSEL

Tirtzah Bassel (b. 1979) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose figurative paintings and site-responsive installations draw attention to the presumed neutrality of ubiquitous spaces like airports and supermarkets. Her ongoing series, Canon in Drag, reimagines iconic artworks by subverting canonical authority through gender-flipped and altered narratives.

Solo exhibitions and site responsive installations include SLAG&RX, Paris (2024), SLAG&RX, New York (2022, 2018),  Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany (2018), Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2018), and BRIC Arts Media Center, Brooklyn, NY (2016). Recent projects include Platform in partnership with David Zwirner Gallery (2022), Natasha Arselan Gallery, London, UK (2022), and Martha’s Contemporary, Austin TX (2022).

Selected group exhibitions include 601Artspace, New York (2023), Kunstverein Viernheim, Germany (2017), Home Land Security at the FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2018), The Visual Arts Center, New Jersey (2015), and Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2015). 

Bassel’s work has been reviewed in ARTNews, The Brooklyn Rail, BBC Radio 4: Front Row, Stirworld, Frieze Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Boston Globe, KQED, San Francisco Chronicle, The Art Newspaper, Huffington Post, Arts in Bushwick, Artspiel, Lilith Magazine, Al Jazeera English, and Le Monde Diplomatique among others. 

Bassel received an MFA from Boston University. She is a faculty member in the Visual and Critical Studies Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is represented by SLAG&RX in New York and Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany.

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Contact: tirtzahbassel[at]gmail[dot]com