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Born: 1971 in Constantine, Algeria. Lives: and works in New York, New York

Education 2000-2001 International Studio Program, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York 1999-2000 Cit� Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 1994-1998 �cole nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France 1987-1994 �cole des Beaux-Arts de Batna, �cole des Beaux-Arts d�Alger, Algiers, Algeria
Solo Exhibitions 2009 Adel Abdessemed: Les ailes de dieu, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy [catalogue] Adel Abdessemed: RIO, David Zwirner, New York, New York 2008 Adel Abdessemed, Christine K�nig Galerie, Vienna, Austria Adel Abdessemed: Don�t Trust Me, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Adel Abdessemed: Drawing for Human Park, Le Magasin - Centre National d�Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts [catalogue] Adel Abdessemed: Trust Me, The Common Guild, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland 2007 Adel Abdessemed: Dead or Alive, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York [catalogue] Adel Abdessemed: Poursuite, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Adel Abdessemed: The Street Is My Heart, Liberia Borges Institute for Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China [catalogue] 2006 Adel Abdessemed: Conversation / Sirha, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Adel Abdessemed: Practice Zero Tolerance, La Cri�e centre d�art contemporain, Rennes, France [itinerary: Fonds r�gional d'art contemporain d'�le-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris, France] 2005 Adel Abdessemed: Happiness in Mitte, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England Adel Abdessemed: Holidays - God is Infinity, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France 2004 Adel Abdessemed: Habibi, Fonds R�gional d�Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France Adel Abdessemed: Le Citron et le lait, Mus�e d�Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2003 Adel Abdessemed: Nuit, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy 2002 Adel Abdessemed, Centre National d�Art et du Paysage, Vassivi�re, France Adel Abdessemed, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2001 Adel Abdessemed, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy Adel Abdessemed, Project Room, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland SELECTED COLLECTIONS Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Fondation Fran�ois Pinault, Venice, Italy Fonds r�gional d'art contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France Fonds r�gional d'art contemporain des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Fundaci�n Montenmedio Arte Contempor�neo, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Mus�e d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Mus�e d�Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2009 10th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba [catalogue] Mixed Bathing World, Beppu Contemporary Art Festival, Beppu, Japan [catalogue] Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England 2008 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea [catalogue] Always Begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland Blind Spot, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel Can Art Do More?, ArtFocus 5, Talpiot Beit Benit Congress Centre, Jerusalem, Israel The Disobedients, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue] Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York [catalogue] The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, New York In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland [catalogue] God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centro d�Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy [catalogue] God is Design, Galeria Fortes Vila�a, S�o Paulo, Brazil [itinerary: Villa Manin, Turin, Italy] [catalogue] L�Argent, Fonds R�gional d'Art Contemporain d��le-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris, France, [catalogue] Medium Religion, Zentrum f�r Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany [catalogue] Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Nuit des Mus�es, Mus�e Rodin, Paris, France Political Correct, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland Political/Minimal, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany [itinerary: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York] [catalogue] Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Z�rich, Zurich, Switzerland [catalogue] Traces du Sacr�, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France [catalogue] Une Histoire Partag�e, Cit� Internationale des Arts, Paris, France YOUniverse, 3rd International Biennale of Contemporary Art of Seville, Granada, Spain [catalogue] 2007 An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal [catalogue] Cartoons-Fantasmagories, La Fundaci�n ICO, Madrid, Spain [catalogue] Eau, air, terre: La sagesse du jardinier, La 3e Biennale d�art contemporain de Melle, Melle, France [catalogue] French Kissin� in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida Geopolitics of Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor�neo, Seville, Spain [catalogue] Global Multitude, La Rotonde 1, Luxembourg, Luxembourg [catalogue] Her (his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece [catalogue] Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece [catalogue] La rue, Galerie de l'�cole sup�rieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Marseilles, France L�emprise du lieu: The Power of Place, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France [catalogue] Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey [catalogue] Passage du Temps: Collection Fran�ois Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal, Lille, France [catalogue] Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas [catalogue] Provokation? II, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria [catalogue] Reconstruction #2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England [catalogue] Silence, Listen to the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy [catalogue] Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy [catalogue] Trans Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Versailles Off, Nuit Blanche, Versailles, France 2006 1st Architecture: Art and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands, Tenerife, Spain [catalogue] 5th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzen, China [catalogue] Accumulation - Canton Express, the Next Stop, Tang Contemporary Art Centre, Beijing, China [catalogue] Art France Berlin, Berlin, Germany [catalogue] Beppu Asia Biennial of Contemporary Art, Beppu, Japan Between Bodies and Object, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany [catalogue] Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England [catalogue] Choosing My Religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland [catalogue] Dak�art Biennial of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal [catalogue] Hot/Cold - Summer Loving, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland [catalogue] La Force de l�Art, Grand Palais, Paris, France [catalogue] L'Image r�v�l�e, de l'orientalisme � l'art contemporain, Municipal Museum of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France [catalogue] S�o Paulo Biennial, S�o Paulo, Brazil [itinerary: Museo de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago, Chil�] [catalogue] Sonambiente Berlin 2006, Berlin, Germany Testigos/Witnesses, Fundaci�n Montenmedio Arte Contempor�neo, Vejer de la Frontera, Spain [catalogue] TINA B., The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic Transition(s): Festival de photographie et Image Biarritz, Biarritz, France [catalogue] Wherever We Go: Art, Identity, Cultures in Transit, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy [itinerary: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California] [catalogue] Yan Pei-Ming & Adel Abdessemed: Each from his own side, the same destiny, Galerija Mala, Ljubljana, Slovenia [catalogue] 2005 3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida Gott sehen, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland [catalogue] 2004 Dimension Folly, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy [catalogue] Exposition collective, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France L�Arte del Mediterraneo, Museo d�Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy [catalogue] Movimento / Movimenti, Museo d�Arte Contemporanea Renato Guttuso, Bagheria, Italy Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China [catalogue] Periplo del Mediterraneo: Maestri e nuove espressioni tra Genova e Istanbul, Museo dell�Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti e Loggia di Banchi, Genova, Italy Por Total, in collaboration with Sislej Xhafa, Fundaci�n La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain Prosismic, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France [catalogue] Shake, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria [itinerary: Villa Arson, Nice, France] [catalogue] The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany [catalogue] White Spirit, Fonds R�gional d�Art Contemporain Lorraine, Lorraine, France 2003 Blood Lines and Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [catalogue] Z.O.U. - Zone of Urgency, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy [catalogue] 2002 Cosi Lontano Cosi Vicino, Baldi Foundation, Pelago, Italy [catalogue] Metropolis, Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [catalogue] Nos troubles, Centre R�gional d�Art Contemporain S�te, S�te, France [catalogue] Puerto Rico Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico [catalogue] Vid�otrafic, Cin� Lumi�re, London, England [itinerary: National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands]
Bibliography RECENT SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2009 10th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba [catalogue] Mixed Bathing World, Beppu Contemporary Art Festival, Beppu, Japan [catalogue] Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England 2008 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea [catalogue] Always Begins by Degrees, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland Blind Spot, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel Can Art Do More?, ArtFocus 5, Talpiot Beit Benit Congress Centre, Jerusalem, Israel The Disobedients, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands [catalogue] Flow, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York [catalogue] The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, New York In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland [catalogue] God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centro d�Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy [catalogue] God is Design, Galeria Fortes Vila�a, S�o Paulo, Brazil [itinerary: Villa Manin, Turin, Italy] [catalogue] L�Argent, Fonds R�gional d'Art Contemporain d��le-de-France - Le Plateau, Paris, France, [catalogue] Medium Religion, Zentrum f�r Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany [catalogue] Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel Nuit des Mus�es, Mus�e Rodin, Paris, France Political Correct, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland Political/Minimal, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany [itinerary: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York] [catalogue] Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Z�rich, Zurich, Switzerland [catalogue] Traces du Sacr�, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France [catalogue] Une Histoire Partag�e, Cit� Internationale des Arts, Paris, France YOUniverse, 3rd International Biennale of Contemporary Art of Seville, Granada, Spain [catalogue] 2007 An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal [catalogue] Cartoons-Fantasmagories, La Fundaci�n ICO, Madrid, Spain [catalogue] Eau, air, terre: La sagesse du jardinier, La 3e Biennale d�art contemporain de Melle, Melle, France [catalogue] French Kissin� in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida Geopolitics of Animation, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor�neo, Seville, Spain [catalogue] Global Multitude, La Rotonde 1, Luxembourg, Luxembourg [catalogue] Her (his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece [catalogue] Heterotopias, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece [catalogue] La rue, Galerie de l'�cole sup�rieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, Marseilles, France L�emprise du lieu: The Power of Place, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France [catalogue] Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey [catalogue] Passage du Temps: Collection Fran�ois Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal, Lille, France [catalogue] Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas [catalogue] Provokation? II, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria [catalogue] Reconstruction #2, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England [catalogue] Silence, Listen to the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy [catalogue] Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy [catalogue] Trans Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Versailles Off, Nuit Blanche, Versailles, France


Publications SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Press. Adel Abdessemed: Situation and Practice, 2008. Texts by Jane Farver, Tom McDonough, Pier Luigi Tazzi. Interview with Noam Chomsky by Adel Abdessemed. Canton, China. Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art. A l'attaque: Adel Abdessemed in conversation with Elisabeth Lebovici, 2008. Interview by Elisabeth Lebovici. Geneva, Switzerland. Marc Jancou at Blondeau Fine Art Services /JRP \| Ringier. In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, 2008. Interview with Adel Abdessemed, Marc Blondeau, and Marc Jancou. New York, New York. The Studio Museum in Harlem. Flow, 2008. Texts by Thelma Golden, Christine Y. Kim, Achille Mbembe, Mai Abu ElDahab, Segun Afolabi, Amanda Alexander, Virginie Andriamirado, et al. Nuremberg, Germany. Verlag f�r moderne Kunst N�rnberg. Political/Minimal, 2008. Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Texts by Michael Archer, Klaus Biesenbach, Jenny Schlenzka. Paris, France. �ditions du Centre Pompidou. Traces du Sacr�, 2008. Edited by Mark Alizart. Texts by Mark Alizart, Olivier Schefer, Yves Cusset. Zurich, Switzerland. Kunsthaus Z�rich/JRP \| Ringier. Shifting Identities, 2008. Edited by Mirjam Varadinis. Texts by Christoph Becker, Peter J. Schneemann, Judith Welter, Tan Walchli, Mirjam Varadinis. 2007 Boulogne, France. Beaux Arts Magazine/TTM. L�emprise du lieu: The Power of Place, 2007. Text by Daniel Buren. Canton, China. Libreria Borges Institute for Contemporary Art. Adel Abdessemed, The Street is My Heart, 2007. Text by Martina Koeppel-Yang. Istanbul, Turkey. Instanbul K�lt�r Sanat Vakfi. 10th International Istanbul Biennial, 2007. Edited by Ilkay Bali� Ayvaz. Text by Hou Hanru. Lisbon, Portugal. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. An Atlas of Events, 2007. Text by Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer, Esra Sarigedik, Adnan Yildiz, Brian Sholis, L�cia Marques, Nikos Papastergiadis, Philippe Parreno. Long Island City, New York. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Adel Abdessemed: Dead or Alive, 2007. Texts by Alanna Heiss, Neville Wakefield. Luxembourg, Luxembourg. La Rotonde 1. Global Multitude, 2007. Texts by Maria Thereza Alves, C�cile Bourne-Farrell, Jimmie Durham, Hou Hanru, Luk Lambrecht, et al. Milan, Italy. Skira. Passage Du Temps: Collection Francois Pinault Foundation, 2007. Texts by Caroline Bourgeoise, et al. Venice, Italy. La Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia. Venice Biennale. Think with Senses - Feel with the Mind, 52nd International Art Exhibition, 2007. Texts by Davide Croff, Robert Storr. Zurich, Switzerland; Paris and Rennes, France. JRP \| Ringier; Le Plateau Frac �le-de-France; and La Cri�e Centre d�Art Contemporain. Adel Abdessemed: A l'attaque, 2007. Texts by Larys Frogier, Elisabeth Lebovici, Philippe-Alain Michaud. 2006 Thun, Switzerland. Kunstmuseum Thun. Choosing My Religion, 2006. Text by Madeleine Schuppli. Vejer de la Frontera, Spain. Fundaci�n Montenmedio Arte Contempor�neo; Milan, Italy. Charta. Testigos/Witnesses, 2006. Texts by Jimena Bl�zquez Abascal, Victor Silva Echeto, et al. 2005 Reims and Paris, France; Geneva, Switzerland. Fonds R�gional d�Art Contemporain Champagne- Ardenne; Paris-Mus�es; Galerie Kamel Mennour; Mus�e d�Art Moderne et Contemporain. Adel Abdessemed Global, 2005. Interview by Guy Tortosa. 2003 Venice, Italy. Biennale di Venezia. Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer: 50th International Art Exhibition, 2003. Texts by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa, Hou Hanru, et al. 2002 Rennes, Vassivi�re, Reims, and Sotteville-les-Rouen, France. La Cri�e centre d'art contemporain; Centre National d'Art et du Paysage; Fonds R�gional d�Art Contemporain Champagne- Ardenne; Frac Haute Normandie. The Green Book, 2002. 2001 Long Island City, New York. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Question nary, 2001. Long Island City, New York. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. P.S.1 National & International Studio Program 2001, 2001. Text by Paulo Herkenhoff. 2000 Pusan, Korea. Pusan Art Museum. Pusan Biennale, 2000. Text by Hou Hanru. Florence, Italy. Finale di Partita, 2000. Text by Hou Hanru. Paris, France. Mus�e d�Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris pour escale, 2000. Interview by Hou Honru, Evelyne Jouanno.

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