It Is Written
2009
Samira Abbassy
Jersey City, NJ
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Samira Abbassy
Samira Abbassy (b.1965, Ahwaz, Iran) is an artist based in New York. Abbassy emigrated to London UK in 1967 and studied at the Canterbury College of Art before moving to New York City in 1998 to co-found the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, where her studio is based and where she holds a lifetime tenure position.
Abbassy’s work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, LACMA, and the 26th Venice Biennial. Abbassy’s work is in private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, British Government Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, Burger Collection, Donald Rubin Collection, LACMA, Afkhami Collection, and Brattleboro Museum (VT). Abbassy’s past awards and fellowships include residencies at Yaddo (2006, 2022, 2024) and Saltonstall (2017), two NYFA awards (2007 in drawing and 2018 in painting), a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2010, and a Pollock-Krasner in 2014. She was additionally nominated for the Anonymous Was a Woman Award in 2018.
Program Participation
Painters & Sculptors Grant, 2010
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My interest lies in how to reveal metaphysical / psychological realms through the corporeal, with all its various embodied conflicts and dilemmas. My subject is autobiography and the exploration of selfhood, but not exactly self portraiture. It’s how the personal is universal.”
