Hassan was the first recipient of the DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Contemporary Art in 2000. He has exhibited widely in South Africa as well as internationally, including at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and 2009; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 2008; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, in 2003; and the Gwangju Biennale, in 1995.