ABOUT KHALED SABSABI

Born in Tripoli, Lebanon, Khaled Sabsabi migrated to Australia with his family as a child in 1976. They settled in Western Sydney where he continues to live and work. In 2001, Khaled returned to Lebanon and the surrounding region for an extended travel period. This journey became a significant moment in his creative career as he questioned, reflected, and redefined his philosophical perspective and contemporary visual arts practice. In 2005, he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New South Wales.

Khaled sees art as an effective tool to communicate and converse with people through a familiar language, creating immersive and engaging experiences. Sabsabi’s artistic process involves working across art mediums, geographical borders and with communities, he has worked in detention centres, schools, prisons, refugee camps, settlements, hospitals, youth centres, public and private galleries in the Australian and international context. He makes work that questions rationales and complexities of nationhood, identity, and change, with continual transfer between the material and the philosophical.