Donna Bassin

Films/Leave No Soldier - Full Film About/CV About/Biography Contact Portfolio/My Own Witness: Rupture and Repair (2016 – 2021) Portfolio/Precious Scars (2020 – Present) Portfolio/Sitting Still on the Northeast Corridor (2019 – Present) Portfolio/Drawing from the Edge (2014 – 2015) Portfolio/Pilgrimage: Bhutan (2013) Portfolio/The Afterlife of Dolls (2001 – 2004) Films/The Mourning After (2015 – 2016) Films/Leave No Soldier (2008) Films/Buddy and the Monster (1978) Installations/The Empowering (2021) Installations/Prayers for the Pandemic (2020) Installations/Smack Mellon - Bound Up Together (2020) Installations/Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness (2020) Installations/Cherry Blossoms in Winter (2016) Book Covers Portfolio/My Own Witness (2016 - 2020) Exhibitions/Exhibition Catalogs Exhibitions/Recent Exhibitions Installations/Her Flag (2019 - 2020) Selected Writing Installations/By Our Own Hand (2021 - 2022) Portfolio/Precarious Places (2021 – Present) Press/The IARPP Bulletin 2021 Press/Tricycle - Precious Scars: Art as Practice Press/One Twelve Publishing - On Donna Bassin's 'Messiah' Press/NJ Arts Annual - Interview with Theda Sandiford Press/NJ 2021 Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond Press/"Her Flag" - Artwire/ArtfixDaily Press/The Prism - Dumbo's Hidden Gem Press/Drawing Rooms - Prayers for the Pandemic Press/NJ State of the Arts - Fog of War Press/New Jersey State of the Arts, Afterlife of Dolls Press/Montclair Times, Afterlife of Dolls Press/Star-Ledger, Therapist's Imagery Press/Sunday Star-Ledger, Living Dolls Press/Almost Human: Dolls and Robots Press/Donna Bassin, A Second Career Magazines/Fotonostrum Magazine No. 24 Magazines/LifeFramer Magazine 2021 "Hypothetical Landscapes" Magazines/Grazia Magazine - New Ways of Seeing Magazines/Lens Magazine 2020 - My Own Witness Magazines/AINT-BAD Issue 15

Home

Precarious Places

Caring for the land calls for collective mobilization and communal stewardship. As a psychoanalyst and photographer, I explore liminal spaces where transformation is possible.

In this series, I create imaginary landscapes freed from narratives of place, becoming borderless and transcending specific sites to suggest our interconnectedness.