Adel Abdessemed

A French artist of Berber origin, Adel Abdessemed is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts of Batna (1990) and Algiers (1994) as well as the École nationale des Beaux-Arts of Lyon (1998).

Since his first solo exhibition in 2001, he has exhibited at MoMA P.S.1., New York; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Parasol Unit, London; Mathaf: Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal and Musée d’Art Contemporáneo, Lyons; and the RockBund Art Museum, Shangai.

The artist was the subject of a major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2012. He is also represented in numerous international collections: Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Collection Pinault Palazzo Grassi-Punta Della Dogana, Venice; Moderna Museet, Stockholm and the Black Gold Museum, Riyadh.