Joseph Sassoon Semah extensive oeuvre consists of drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, and texts. He exhibits regularly at home and abroad.

Joseph Sassoon Semah (Baghdad, 1948) is a Jewish-Iraqi artist, writer, thinker, and guest curator who has lived and worked in Amsterdam since the 1980s. His oeuvre explores the meaning of cultural and religious legacies, lost knowledge, and the position of the stranger within Western art history. His work—comprising drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, performances, and texts—examines the relationship between Judaism and Christianity as sources of Western art, culture, and politics. Sassoon Semah often places his work in dialogue with Western artists such as Mondrian, Duchamp, and Beuys, asking what is missing from the canon due to the disappearance of Jewish-Babylonian perspectives.