Tirtzah Bassel (b. 1979) is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose figurative paintings and site-responsive installations examine the presumed neutrality of everyday spaces, from airports to supermarkets. Her ongoing series, Canon in Drag, reimagines iconic artworks by subverting canonical authority through gender-flipped and altered narratives. Bassel has presented solo exhibitions and site-responsive installations at venues including A.I.R. Gallery, New York (2026 forthcoming), SLAG&RX, Paris and New York (2024, 2022), Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart (2018), Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn (2018), and BRIC Arts Media Center, Brooklyn (2016). Recent projects include Platform in partnership with David Zwirner Gallery (2022), Natasha Arselan Gallery, London (2022), and Martha’s Contemporary, Austin (2022). Her work has also appeared in group exhibitions at 601Artspace, New York (2023), DePaul Museum, Chicago (2026 forthcoming), and FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco (2018). Bassel’s practice has been featured in ARTNews, Frieze, The Brooklyn Rail, BBC Radio 4, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Le Monde Diplomatique, among others. She holds an MFA from Boston University, teaches in the Visual and Critical Studies Department at the School of Visual Arts, and is represented by SLAG&RX, New York, and Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart.