Exhibitions
2024: Chiaroscuro, curated by Michèle Lamy, ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai
2024: Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2023: I Can No Longer Produce the Limits of My Own Body, NIKA Project Space, Dubai
2023: In Between the Notes, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata, India
2022: Geopoetics of the UAE, curated by The Mine, UAE Embassy, Brussels, Belgium
2022: SAAI Factory, Foundry, Dubai
2022: SAAI Factory, Galerie Obrist, Essen, Germany
2022: SAAI Factory, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
2022: Refraction: The (Re)making of the Ice Factory, IF.BE, Mumbai, India
2021: Untitled, Satellite, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
2019: Business Art, Foundry, Dubai
2019: Anthropophagy, Kerka Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019: Personal Structures, European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2019: 48 Hours in Novosibirsk, State Research Center, Novosibirsk, Russia
2019: Emerge III: Converging Lines, DD47, Venice, Italy
2018: Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Arts, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2018: Bait Juma, Bait 15, Abu Dhabi
2017: Beirut Design Week, KED, Beirut, Lebanon
2017: MACAM Biennale, MACAM Museum, Alita-Byblos, Lebanon
2016: Connectivity, Tashkeel, Dubai, UAE
2015: Here and Now, Malja, Bahrain
2013: MAP, Whitdel Arts, Detroit, USA
2012: Superart WiP, Public Space 1, Iowa City, USA
2011: MFA Exhibition, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA
Performances
2025: Echo Holdings x Blurring, The Ice Factory, Cape Town, South Africa, Jan. 23
2024: Utopics: Cybernetic Time, 13th EAI Arts IT Conference, NYU Abu Dhabi, Nov. 15
2024: Utopics 8, KGRn, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 14
2024: Cybernetic Listening, WALLS, Bali, Indonesia, Jul. 26
2024: Cybernetic Listening, SYNAP, Bangkok, Thailand, Jul. 15
2024: MUTEK Performance Lab, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE, May 5
2024: Utopics 6, KET, Athens, Greece, Apr. 27th
2024: Utopics 5, Palazzo Michiel, Venice, Italy, Apr. 20
2024: Echo Holdings x Angelus Novus, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy, Apr. 19
2024: Ascension Blacklist: Cybernetic Listening, Turbo, Amman, Jordan, Apr. 13
2024: Objects in the Act of Vanishing, Global Art Forum 17, Art Dubai, UAE, Mar. 1
2024: Echo Holdings x Cosmogony, Electrofest, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE, Feb. 17
2023: Benzene Sounds, ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai, UAE, Nov. 25
2023: Echo Holdings x Angelus Novus, Reference Point, London, Oct. 28
2023: Echo Holdings x Hallucinations, Digitalvilla, Potsdam, Germany, Jun. 14
2023: AmbiNoise, MiZa Radio, Abu Dhabi, Apr. 15
2023: Echo Holdings x Ω MNFA, Amman, Jan. 27
2023: Water Diviners IV, Art Jameel, Dubai, Jan. 15
2022: 196 Questions, Foundry, Dubai, Nov. 23
2022: Echo Holdings x Machine Vision, Etta, Singapore, Sept. 29
2022: Echo Holdings x Immanence, IF.BE, Mumbai, India, Apr. 23
2022: A Sentence with the Word Mirror in It, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai, UAE, Mar. 19
2021: Echo Holdings x Anthropophagy, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE, Oct. 30
2021: Echo Holdings x Machine Vision, Art Jameel, Dubai, UAE, Aug. 13
2021: Echo Holdings x Mirrors, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE, Apr. 9
2020: Echo Holdings x Interment, KGC, Mumbai, India, Feb. 23
2020: Echo Holdings x Versailles, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE, Jan. 25
2019: Soundscapes, La Fontaine Art Centre, Bahrain, Nov. 29
2019: Echo Holdings x Bait 15, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE, Mar. 3
2018: Echo Holdings x Brad Downey, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE, Nov. 29
2018: Bait Juma, Bait 15, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Nov. 16
2017: Zwischenspiel, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE, Dec. 10
2017: Nightmares From Fabric, KED, Beirut Design Week, Beirut, Lebanon, May 19
2017: Nightmares From Fabric, DIVE × Fabrika, Tbilisi, Georgia, Apr. 21
2017: Nightmares From Fabric, White Noise, Dubai, UAE, Feb. 10
2016: Echo Holdings, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE, Apr. 15
2015: Echo Holdings, Tse Tse Fly, Dubai, UAE, Oct. 24
2013: Write We Did Not Burn Their Villages, 10–A, Manila, Philippines, Jun. 30
Art Commissions
2024: Ascension Blacklist, The Wonder Cabinet, Bethlehem, Palestine
2024: Sour Cities, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Netherlands
2024: Utopics 7, Long House Nuanu, Bali, Indonesia
2024: Objects in the Act of Vanishing, Art Jameel x World Weather Network, Dubai, UAE
2023: Cybernetic Listening, MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2023: Soundscape for TAG, Prince Nasser Palace, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
2022: Utopics 4, Ice Factory Ballard Estate, Mumbai, India
2021: Utopics 3, Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany
2021: Echo Holdings x Synthanatos, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2019: HypotheticalSpaces.zone, Nation 2.0, Dubai, UAE
2019: Utopics 2, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2018: Mastaba, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Residencies
2023: MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2022: Wilderness as Archive, AqTushetii, Omalo, Georgia
2022: Casa Tagumerche, La Gomera, Spain
Screenings
2025: Open Secret curated by Dana Dawud, Casa do Comum, Lisbon, Portugal
2025: Open Secret curated by Dana Dawud, The Ice Factory, Cape Town, South Africa
2024: Ascension Blacklist, The Wonder Cabinet, Bethlehem, Palestine
2024: Open Secret curated by Y7 and Dana Dawud, SET Vault, London, UK
2024: Open Secret curated by Dana Dawud, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, USA
2024: Open Secret curated by Y7 and Dana Dawud, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Panel Discussions and Talks
2024: Future Experts: AI in Arts & Culture, Museum of the Future, Dubai, UAE
2024: Conversations with Artists, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2024: Chyron: Grammar of Simultaneity, Long House Nuanu, Bali, Indonesia
2024: Artist Q&A at European Cultural Academy, Venice, Italy
2023: Artist Q&A at Reference Point, London, UK
2023: Artist Q&A at University of Potsdam, Germany
2023: Intersections of Art and Technology, Dubai Calligraphy Biennale, Dubai, UAE
2022: Artist Q&A with Guy Mackinnon-Little, SO-FAR, Singapore
2022: Being Public: Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
2022: Metaverse and the Unconscious Mind, Foundry, Dubai, UAE
2021: Artist Q&A at Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany
2021: Art and AI, SAAI Symposium, Hamburg, Germany
2021: Pavilionaire, Italian Cultural Academy, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2021: On Utopics, BICAR Future Perfect Colloquium, Mumbai, India
2020: Poetry School, Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2020: Three Drafts on Timelessness, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019: The Invisible End: A Debate, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
2018: Islamic Culture and the Technological Future, Manarat Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Publications
Sullivan, I. (2025, forthcoming), Utopics: Cybernetic Time, 13th EAI Arts IT Conference, New York University Abu Dhabi, Springer.
Sullivan, I. (2025, forthcoming), Hypothetical Spaces, InVisible Culture, Issue 39
Sullivan, I. (2023), Chyron: Grammar of Simultaneity, ed. Rohit Goel, Kaph Books
Sullivan, I. (2020), Silvia Hernando Alvarez’s Mars Imaginary, Tashkeel
Selected Press
Morelli, N. (2024), The Body, Intimacy, and Technology in the Middle East, The Markaz Review
Batycka, D. (2023), It’s Always About Collaboration, Artnet
Dawud, D. (2023), The Render and the Real, Outland
Bagchi, S. (2023), The Ways of Seeing Sound, Telegraph India
Mackinnon-Liddle, G. (2023), An Ecology of Unstable Subjects, SO-FAR
Harding, S. (2023), Vampire Reflections, Twist Magazine, Issue 3
Voigt, V. (2023), Glitch Phenomena 3.0, Platform Glitch Aesthetics
Ahmed, S. (2022), Hypothetical Spaces: A Conversation with Isaac Sullivan, SO-FAR