Aissa Deebi is a New York-based artist. In the past ten years he has produced a body of work in photography, video, new media and the graphic arts. He is currently a visiting professor of communication design at the Department of Industrial Design of the Faculty of Architecture of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.
Drawing from his previous work on identity, exile, displacement and integration, he is now examining works of photography and migration within the New York City émigré culture and investigating questions of identity in relation to masculinity and cultural integration in his PhD dissertation, which he is currently finishing at the Art and Design Department of the University of Southampton.
An award winning artist, Aissa’s work has been widely exhibited in the United States. He has exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art, the Elga Wimmer Gallery in Chelsea, the Tangent Gallery in Detroit, and the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia. His works were also displayed at the Haifa Museum of Contemporary Arts, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Fitcher and Mezrahi Gallery in Austria, the University of Catania in Italy, and the Inner Mongolia Museum of Fine Arts in China.
He is a practicing artist/ researcher and sharing his art as a lecturer in graphic arts. He shuttles between London and New York.