Aileen Bassis

Artist and Poet



Long Island City Artists has an online exhibition: "Artists Navigating 2020" that includes a slideshow of my artist book, "Do You Stay."




THe Breathe Project



A window exhibition in Chelsea includes two prints of my drawings inspired by the recent murder of George Floyd.





This Drawing, "Breath" will be in the online exhibit, "Breathing While Black," Augusta Savage Gallery and a print version at the Hudson Guild Gallery window exhibit.



2020, 15 x 22.5" Pencil, Thread on Paper



"Breathing While Black," an online exhibition by the Augusta Savage Gallery at U. of Massachusetts, Amherst will include two of my recent drawings,

September 1 - November 30.


Alfa Gallery in New Brunswick, NJ will have one of my etchings in the exhibition, "The Space Between" sponsored by the Women's Caucus for Art NYC branch, curated by Jeanne Brasile. The Space Between wil be physically on view Sept 5 - Sep 26. Gallery hours: 11 AM - 6pm. Alfa Gallery is also creating an online exhibition that should be up August 11.


“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election” is an online exhibition curated by artist/activist Patricia Dahlman with work by: Kathy Aoki, Aileen Bassis, Sue Coe, Donna Coleman, Patricia Dahlman, Michael Dal Cerro, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Tim Fite, Robert Geshlider, Todd Hanson and Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider, Cheryl Harper, Carla Rae Johnson, Jackie Lima, Anne Q McKeown, Doug Minkler, Frank Lopez-Motnyk, Ray Must, Hubert Neal Jr, Joseph O’Neal, Chris Pelletiere, Carol Radsprecher, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Rita Valley, and Lisa G Westheimer.



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