Hajra Waheed
Hajra Waheed is a Montréal-based artist.[1] Her multimedia practice includes works on paper, collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation. [2] Waheed uses news accounts, extensive research and personal histories to critically examine multiple issues including: covert power, mass surveillance, cultural distortion and the traumas of displacement caused by colonialism and mass migration. [3]
Waheed was born in 1980 in Canada.[4] She has complex ties and relationships to North America, the Middle East and South Asia. She grew up within the gated compound of Saudi ARAMCO in Dhahran. [1][5] She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in advanced painting and art history, in 2002. [6] She moved to Montréal in 2005 and completed her MA at McGill University in 2007. [2] At 34, Waheed received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Canadian Mid-Career Visual Artist. [7] She was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2016. [1][8]
Waheed's works are in the collections of the MoMA,[9] British Museum, the Devi Art Foundation, Samdani Art Foundation, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada.[10][2]
Exhibitions
- Hold Everything Dear, The Power Plant, Toronto, (2019)[11][12]
- The Video Installation Project, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2017)[13]
- Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale, Venice, (2017)[14]
- Turbulent Landings: NGC Canadian Biennial, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, (2017)[15]
- Farewell Photography, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, (2017)[16]
- The Cyphers, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, (2016)[2][17]
- Sea Change - Chapter 1, Character 1: In the Rough, Mosaic Rooms, London (2016) [2]
- The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, (2016)[18]
- Sobey Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, (2016)[19]
- The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, (2016)[20]
- Still Against the Sky, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, London, (2015)[21]
- Asylum in the Sea, Foundarie Darling, Montréal, 2015[22]
- La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2014)[23]
- Lines of Control, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, (2014)[24]
- Collages: Gesture and Fragments, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2014)[25]
- Field Notes and Other Backstories, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, (2013)[26]
- Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, (2012)[27]
- (In) The First Circle, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona (2012)[28]
References
- ^ a b c Travis, Rebecca (February 2017). "Interview with Hajra Waheed - The White ReviewThe White Review". www.thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ a b c d e Bailey, Stephanie (March 2017). "Systems of Fragments". Ibraaz. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Spence, Rachel (Spring 2016). "Hajra Waheed Interview: "I am Interested in the Space of Not Knowing"" (PDF). Financial Times.
- ^ Martin, Richard (2016-04-06). "Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London | Apollo Magazine". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Proctor, Rebecca Anne (2014). "Finding Fragments" (PDF). Harper's BAZAR.
- ^ Morgan-Feir, Caoimhe (May 11, 2017). "Montreal Artist Hajra Waheed Traces a Rising Tide in Venice". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Darling Foundry | Asylum In the Sea". fonderiedarling.org. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Quebec - Hajra Waheed". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Hajra Waheed | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ^ "The Cyphers 1-18". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ^ "Hold Everything Dear". The Power Plant. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ Wilkinson, Jayne. "Constellations". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2020-01-05.
- ^ "The Video Installation Project 1-10 – MAC Montréal". MAC Montréal. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Artisti". La Biennale di Venezia (in Italian). 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Turbulent Landings". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie". biennalefotografie.de (in German). Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Pritchard, David (February 2, 2016). "Review: Hajra Waheed, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art". Corridor8. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "the8thclimate.org". 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016: The Eighth Climate (What does art do?). Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ NGC. "Traditional Practices and Alternate Realities: The 2016 Sobey Art Award Exhibition". www.gallery.ca. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "THE MISSING ONE | 2016". Samdani Art Foundation. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Hajra Waheed. Still against the sky – KW Institute for Contemporary Art". KW Institute for Contemporary Art. 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Moser, Gabrielle (2015). "Watermarks: Hajra Waheed's Asylum in the Sea" (PDF). Asylum in the Sea. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
- ^ "La Biennale de Montréal 2014 – Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal". Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Collages – MAC Montréal". MAC Montréal. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Mitra, Srimoyee (2013). Looking and Seeing with Hajra Waheed. The Art Gallery of Windsor.
- ^ "Lines of Control | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art". museum.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "In the First Circle. A Project by Imogen Stidworthy". www.fundaciotapies.org. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
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