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{{short description|Contemporary artist based in Beirut}}
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'''Lawrence Abu Hamdan''' (born 1985, in [[Amman]]) is a contemporary artist based in [[Beirut]]. His work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Because of his work with sound, Abu Hamdan has testified as an expert witness in asylum hearings in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/close_look/close-look-lawrence-abu-hamdan-52638|title=Legal Hearing: The Politicized Sound Art of Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Artspace|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref>
| native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|ar|لورانس أبو حمدان}}}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1985}}
| birth_place = [[Amman]], [[Jordan]]
| alma_mater = [[Goldsmiths, University of London]]
| known_for = audio, listening
| website = [http://lawrenceabuhamdan.com/ LawrenceAbuHamdan.com]
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His work has been featured in major group exhibitions including the [[British Art Show]] 8 (2015–17),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://britishartshow8.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan-1490|title=British Art Show 8|website=British Art Show 8|access-date=2017-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318222658/http://britishartshow8.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan-1490|archive-date=2016-03-18|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Liverpool Biennial]] (2016),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.biennial.com/2016/exhibition/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105090128/http://www.biennial.com/2016/exhibition/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan |archive-date=2017-01-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[List of New Museum Triennial Artists|third New Museum Triennial]] (2015).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/the-generational-triennial|title=2015 Triennial: Surround Audience|website=Newmuseum.org}}</ref> Solo exhibitions of the artists work have been presented at the [[Chisenhale Gallery]] (2018);<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chisenhale.org.uk/exhibition/lawrence-abu-hamdan/|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Chisenhale Gallery|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> [[The Showroom]], London (2012);<ref name="portikus.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.portikus.de/en/exhibitions/199_earshot|title=#199 Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Earshot - Portikus Frankfurt|website=Portikus.de}}</ref> Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen (2015);<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/3/events/lawrence-abu-hamdan-573.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105175502/http://www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/3/events/lawrence-abu-hamdan-573.html |archive-date=2017-01-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Portikus]], Frankfurt (2016).<ref name="portikus.de"/> His work is included in the collections of the [[Arts Council England]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170105085356/http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/search-results?keys=lawrence+abu+hamdan&type%5B%5D=artist&submit.x=21&submit.y=10&submit=Search] </ref> and [[Museum of Modern Art|The Museum of Modern Art, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/45238?locale=en|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan - MoMA|website=Moma.org}}</ref>
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'''Lawrence Abu Hamdan''' (born 1985, [[Amman]]) is a contemporary artist based in [[Beirut]]. His work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Because of his work with sound, Abu Hamdan has testified as an expert witness in asylum hearings in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/close_look/close-look-lawrence-abu-hamdan-52638|title=Legal Hearing: The Politicized Sound Art of Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Artspace|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref>


His work has been featured in major group exhibitions, as well as solo exhibitions at [[Tate Modern]], [[Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art]] or [[The Showroom]], and is included in the collection of several major institutions.
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He was nominated for - and jointly won with [[Tai Shani]], [[Oscar Murillo (artist)|Oscar Murillo]] and [[Helen Cammock]] - the 2019 [[Turner Prize]] for his work based on interviews with former detainees at a Syrian prison.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Syrian Prison Installation is Put Forward for a Top Art Prize|url=https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/syrian-prison-installation-put-forward-top-art-prize-1283526|website=Al Bawaba|language=en|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Turner Prize 2019 shortlist is announced |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48117940 |date=1 May 2019}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/turner-prize-2019-shared/index.html|title=Turner Prize won by all four nominees in appeal for 'solidarity'|first=Oscar |last=Holland|date=2019-12-04|website=CNN Style|language=en|access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref>


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He jointly won, with [[Tai Shani]], [[Oscar Murillo (artist)|Oscar Murillo]] and [[Helen Cammock]], the 2019 [[Turner Prize]] for his work based on interviews with former detainees at a Syrian prison.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Syrian Prison Installation is Put Forward for a Top Art Prize |url=https://www.albawaba.com/editors-choice/syrian-prison-installation-put-forward-top-art-prize-1283526 |access-date=19 May 2020 |website=Al Bawaba |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=1 May 2019 |title=Turner Prize 2019 shortlist is announced |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48117940}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Holland |first=Oscar |date=4 December 2019 |title=Turner Prize won by all four nominees in appeal for 'solidarity' |url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/turner-prize-2019-shared/index.html |access-date=4 December 2019 |website=CNN Style |language=en}}</ref> In September 2023, he plans to open Earshot, "the first agency for sound and acoustic analysis dedicated to open-source investigators and the field of human rights."<ref name="brooklynrail.org">{{cite web |last1=Fenstermaker |first1=Will |title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan with Will Fenstermaker |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2023/06/art/Lawrence-Abu-Hamdan-with-Will-Fenstermaker |website=The Brooklyn Rail |date=June 2023 |access-date=21 July 2023}}</ref>
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==Career and artwork==
Abu Hamdan received his PhD from the [[Center for Research Architecture]] at [[Goldsmiths, University of London]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maureenpaley.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan/biography|title=Maureen Paley - Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Maureenpaley.com}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
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The artist has a background in music production and describes his work as concerned with the "politics of listening."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/artist-lawrence-abu-hamdan-demands-the-right-to-stay-silent-981|title=Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan Demands the Right to Stay Silent|date=4 March 2015|website=Vice.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref> His work confronts specific instances and examples of listening and the voice as they related to legal and political contexts. In his 2012 radio documentary ''The Whole Truth'', he explored new technologies that were attempting to act as lie-detectors for voices.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://frieze.com/article/lawrence-abu-hamdan|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Frieze.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref> In a 2015 commission for [[The Armory Show (art fair)|The Armory Show]] in New York, the artist distributed bags of potato chips in foil wrappers. The work builds on research undertaken by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which they were able to turn common objects into listening devices by capturing vibrations recorded on physical objects and transferring them back into speech.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2015/03/lawrence-abu-hamdan-turns-snacks-into-surveillance-at-armory-special-projects/|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan Turns Snacks into Surveillance at Armory Special Projects|date=4 March 2015|website=Observer.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.39/equivocally-yours_a-conversation-with-lawrence-abu-hamdan|title=Equivocally Yours: A Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan • 39 - Summer 2015 • Afterall|website=Afterall.org|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref>
Born in Amman, [[Jordan]] to a Lebanese father and an English mother,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=St. Félix |first=Doreen |date=July 22, 2024 |title=Hear No Evil |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/22/how-lawrence-abu-hamdan-hears-the-world |magazine= The New Yorker |access-date=August 5, 2024}}</ref> Abu Hamdan grew up in [[York]] in the UK.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Afterall - Equivocally Yours: A Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan |url=https://www.afterall.org/article/equivocally-yours_a-conversation-with-lawrence-abu-hamdan |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=Afterall |language=en}}</ref> In the 2000s he played in a series of DIY bands, including Isambard Kingston Brunel, Poltergroom and Cleckhuddersfax, who released records on the London-based label [[Upset the Rhythm|Upset The Rhythm]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-07-10 |title=Lebanese-British artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on sound, memory and the Turner Prize |url=https://arab.news/v6jrq |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=Arab News |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Abu Hamdan received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at [[Goldsmiths, University of London]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maureenpaley.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan/biography|title=Maureen Paley – Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Maureenpaley.com}}</ref>


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== Career and artwork ==
In 2016, Sternberg press published a monograph on the artist:
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Abu Hamdan describes his work as concerned with the "politics of listening."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/artist-lawrence-abu-hamdan-demands-the-right-to-stay-silent-981|title=Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan Demands the Right to Stay Silent|date=4 March 2015|website=Vice.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref> Describing himself as a "private ear",<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-14 |title=Interview: Lawrence Abu Hamdan—a self-styled 'private ear' |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2019/06/14/interview-lawrence-abu-hamdana-self-styled-private-ear |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}</ref> his work confronts specific instances and examples of listening and the voice as they related to legal and political contexts. In his 2012 radio documentary ''The Whole Truth'', he explored new technologies that were attempting to act as lie-detectors for voices.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://frieze.com/article/lawrence-abu-hamdan|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan|journal=Frieze|date=11 January 2013 |issue=160 |accessdate=21 November 2018|last1=Cummings |first1=Basia Lewandowska }}</ref> In a 2015 commission for [[The Armory Show (art fair)|The Armory Show]] in New York, he distributed bags of potato chips in foil wrappers. The work built on research undertaken by scientists at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in which they were able to turn common objects into listening devices by capturing vibrations recorded on physical objects and transferring them back into speech.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2015/03/lawrence-abu-hamdan-turns-snacks-into-surveillance-at-armory-special-projects/|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan Turns Snacks into Surveillance at Armory Special Projects|date=4 March 2015|website=Observer.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.39/equivocally-yours_a-conversation-with-lawrence-abu-hamdan|title=Equivocally Yours: A Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan • 39 – Summer 2015 • Afterall|website=Afterall.org|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref> His audio investigations have been used as evidence in UK asylum and immigration courts, and in support of organisations such as [[Amnesty International]] and [[Child Protection International]], as well as researchers in forensic architecture. He keeps an ''[https://brooklynrail.org/2021/12/criticspage/Ear-Witness Earwitness Inventory]'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Abu Hamdan |first1=Lawrence |title=Ear Witness |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2021/12/criticspage/Ear-Witness |website=The Brooklyn Rail |date=8 December 2021 |access-date=21 July 2023}}</ref> which he has described as "both a sound-effects library specifically designed to solicit earwitness testimony for legal and advocacy cases as well as a repository for acoustic experience."<ref name="brooklynrail.org"/>
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* {{cite book | last=Hamdan | first=Lawrence | title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan : (inaudible) : a politics of listening in 4 acts | publisher=Sternberg Press | publication-place=Berlin | year=2016 | isbn=978-3-95679-241-0 | oclc=965200118}}


He has won awards including the 2016 Nam June Paik New Media Award, the 2020 Edvard Munch Award, and the 2019 Turner Prize, which he won jointly with [[Helen Cammock]], [[Oscar Murillo (artist)|Oscar Murillo]] and [[Tai Shani]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Turner Prize 2019 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/turner-prize-2019/lawrence-abu-hamdan |website=Tate}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> He has held solo exhibitions at multiple institutions including [[Tate Modern]] (2018), [[Hammer Museum]] (2018) and [[Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art]] (2019), and his work is in the collections of the [[Museum of Modern Art]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/45238?locale=en|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan – MoMA|website=Moma.org}}</ref> [[List of Guggenheim Museums|Guggenheim]], [[Arts Council England]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/search-results?keys=lawrence+abu+hamdan&type%5B%5D=artist&submit.x=21&submit.y=10&submit=Search |title=Search Results &#124; Arts Council Collection |website=www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105085356/http://www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk/search-results?keys=lawrence+abu+hamdan&type%5B%5D=artist&submit.x=21&submit.y=10&submit=Search |archive-date=5 January 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Van Abbemuseum|Van Abbe]], [[Centre Pompidou]], [[Museo Reina Sofía]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan |url=https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/coleccion/autor/abu-hamdan-lawrence-0 |website=Museo Reina Sofía}}</ref> and Tate Modern.
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==Awards and fellowships==

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* The Edvard Munch Award (2020)
Abu Hamdan is a fellow at the [[University of Chicago]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-16 |title=Turner Prize winner brings innovative approach to sound {{!}} University of Chicago News |url=https://news.uchicago.edu/story/turner-prize-winner-brings-innovative-artistic-approach-uchicago |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=news.uchicago.edu |language=en}}</ref> was a guest at the [[DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program|DAAD Artists Program in Berlin]] in 2017–18,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan |url=https://thenewcentre.org/people/lawrence-abu-hamdan/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=The New Centre for Research & Practice |language=en-US}}</ref> and was a fellow at the [[The Vera List Center for Art and Politics|Vera List Center for Art and Politics]] at the [[The New School|New School]] in New York from 2015 to 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan {{!}} Vera List Center |url=https://veralistcenter.org/network/lawrence-abu-hamdan/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Lawrence Abu Hamdan {{!}} Vera List Center |language=en}}</ref>
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*DAAD Visual Artists Residency (2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news.php?news=3|title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm|website=Berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de}}</ref>

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* Nam June Paik Award (2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lawrence-abu-hamdan-2016-nam-june-paik-award-724793|title=2016 Nam June Paik Award Goes to Lawrence Abu Hamdan - artnet News|date=28 October 2016|website=News.artnet.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref>
* Vera List Center Fellow, New School, New York (2015–17)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/people/1990/lawrence-abu-hamdan/|title=The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics - Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Veralistcenter.org}}</ref>
Lawrence Abu Hamdan is represented by Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan - mor charpentier |url=https://www.mor-charpentier.com/artist/lawrence-abu-hamdan/ |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=www.mor-charpentier.com/ |language=en-US}}</ref>

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*2019 Turner Prize<ref name=":0" />
==Major works==
*''The Whole Truth'' (2012).
*''Saydnaya (The Missing 19db)'' (2017).
*''After SFX'' (2018).
*''Walled Unwalled'' (2018).


== Exhibitions ==
== Exhibitions ==
===Solo exhibitions===
*2012: ''Aural Contract: The Freedom of Speech Itself'', [[The Showroom]], London<ref name="portikus.de">{{cite web|url=http://www.portikus.de/en/exhibitions/199_earshot|title=#199 Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Earshot – Portikus Frankfurt|website=Portikus.de}}</ref>
*2014: ''Tape Echo'', part of ''Positions'', [[Van Abbemuseum]], Eindhoven
*2015. ''Taqiyya'', Kunsthalle St. Gallen<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/3/events/lawrence-abu-hamdan-573.html |title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan "تقيه (Taqiyya) the Right to Duplicity" - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen |access-date=4 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105175502/http://www.kunsthallesanktgallen.ch/en/3/events/lawrence-abu-hamdan-573.html |archive-date=5 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*2016: ''Earshot'', [[Portikus]], Frankfurt<ref name="portikus.de" />
*2018: ''Hammer Projects: Lawrence Abu Hamdan'', [[Hammer Museum]], Los Angeles<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-20 |title=Hammer Projects: Lawrence Abu Hamdan {{!}} Hammer Museum |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2018/hammer-projects-lawrence-abu-hamdan |access-date=2024-07-10 |website=hammer.ucla.edu |language=en}}</ref>
*2018: ''Walled Unwalled'', Tate Modern, London
*2018: ''Earwitness Theatre'', [[Chisenhale Gallery]], London<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chisenhale.org.uk/exhibition/lawrence-abu-hamdan/|title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Chisenhale Gallery|access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref>
*2019: ''Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition'', Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam<ref>{{cite web |title=Turner Prize 2019 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/turner-prize-2019/lawrence-abu-hamdan |website=Tate}}</ref>
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*2019: ''Lawrence Abu Hamdan'', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
*2019: ''Lawrence Abu Hamdan'' (Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam)
*2019: ''Earwitness Theatre'' (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane)
*2019: ''Naqt'' (Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut)
*2019: ''The Voice Before the Law'' (Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin)
*2020: ''Artist's Rooms: Lawrence Abu Hamdan'' (Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai)
*2021: ''São Paulo Art Biennial'' (São Paulo)
*2021: ''Dirty Evidence'' (Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm)
*2021: ''Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence'' (Secession, Vienna)
*2022: ''cross border crimes & the witness-machine complex'' (Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg)
*2022: ''The Sonic Image'' (Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah)
*2023: ''Cross-Border Crimes'' (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City)
*2023: ''Walled Unwalled and Other Monologues'' (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
*2023: ''45th Parallel'' (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh)


===Group exhibitions===
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* Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (2019)
* [[British Art Show|British Art Show 8]] (2015–17).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://britishartshow8.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan-1490|title=British Art Show 8|website=British Art Show 8|access-date=4 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318222658/http://britishartshow8.com/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan-1490|archive-date=18 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Liverpool Biennial]] (2016).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.biennial.com/2016/exhibition/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan |title=Artists &#124; Liverpool Biennial: Festival of Contemporary Art |access-date=4 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105090128/http://www.biennial.com/2016/exhibition/artists/lawrence-abu-hamdan |archive-date=5 January 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[List of New Museum Triennial Artists|3rd New Museum Triennial]] (2015).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/the-generational-triennial|title=2015 Triennial: Surround Audience|website=Newmuseum.org}}</ref>
*''May You Live in Interesting Times'', [[58th Venice Biennale]], Venice (2019).<ref>{{cite web |title=Turner Prize 2019 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/turner-contemporary/turner-prize-2019/lawrence-abu-hamdan |website=Tate}}</ref>

== Publications ==

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* {{cite book | last=Hamdan | first=Lawrence | title=Lawrence Abu Hamdan : (inaudible) : a politics of listening in 4 acts | publisher=Sternberg Press | publication-place=Berlin | year=2016 | isbn=978-3-95679-241-0 | oclc=965200118}}

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==Awards and fellowships==
* Vera List Center Fellow, New School, New York (2015–17)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/people/1990/lawrence-abu-hamdan/|title=The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics – Lawrence Abu Hamdan|website=Veralistcenter.org}}</ref>
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* Nam June Paik Award (2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lawrence-abu-hamdan-2016-nam-june-paik-award-724793|title=2016 Nam June Paik Award Goes to Lawrence Abu Hamdan – artnet News|date=28 October 2016|website=News.artnet.com|accessdate=21 November 2018}}</ref>
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*DAAD Visual Artists Residency (2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/news.php?news=3|title=Berliner Künstlerprogramm|website=Berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de}}</ref>
*Abraaj Group Art Prize (2018)
*20th Baloise Art Prize (2018)
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*[[Turner Prize]] (2019)<ref name=":0" />
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* Edvard Munch Award (2020)
* Audience Prize of the Toronto Biennale (2022)
* Glasgow Short Film Festival: Bill Douglas Award (2023)


==References==
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Latest revision as of 20:16, 5 August 2024

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
لورانس أبو حمدان
Born1985 (age 38–39)
Amman, Jordan
Alma materGoldsmiths, University of London
Known foraudio, listening
WebsiteLawrenceAbuHamdan.com

Lawrence Abu Hamdan (born 1985, Amman) is a contemporary artist based in Beirut. His work looks into the political effects of listening, using various kinds of audio to explore its effects on human rights and law. Because of his work with sound, Abu Hamdan has testified as an expert witness in asylum hearings in the United Kingdom.[1]

His work has been featured in major group exhibitions, as well as solo exhibitions at Tate Modern, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art or The Showroom, and is included in the collection of several major institutions.

He jointly won, with Tai Shani, Oscar Murillo and Helen Cammock, the 2019 Turner Prize for his work based on interviews with former detainees at a Syrian prison.[2][3][4] In September 2023, he plans to open Earshot, "the first agency for sound and acoustic analysis dedicated to open-source investigators and the field of human rights."[5]

Early life and education

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Born in Amman, Jordan to a Lebanese father and an English mother,[6] Abu Hamdan grew up in York in the UK.[7] In the 2000s he played in a series of DIY bands, including Isambard Kingston Brunel, Poltergroom and Cleckhuddersfax, who released records on the London-based label Upset The Rhythm.[8][7] Abu Hamdan received his PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017.[9]

Career and artwork

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Abu Hamdan describes his work as concerned with the "politics of listening."[10] Describing himself as a "private ear",[11] his work confronts specific instances and examples of listening and the voice as they related to legal and political contexts. In his 2012 radio documentary The Whole Truth, he explored new technologies that were attempting to act as lie-detectors for voices.[12] In a 2015 commission for The Armory Show in New York, he distributed bags of potato chips in foil wrappers. The work built on research undertaken by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which they were able to turn common objects into listening devices by capturing vibrations recorded on physical objects and transferring them back into speech.[13][14] His audio investigations have been used as evidence in UK asylum and immigration courts, and in support of organisations such as Amnesty International and Child Protection International, as well as researchers in forensic architecture. He keeps an Earwitness Inventory,[15] which he has described as "both a sound-effects library specifically designed to solicit earwitness testimony for legal and advocacy cases as well as a repository for acoustic experience."[5]

He has won awards including the 2016 Nam June Paik New Media Award, the 2020 Edvard Munch Award, and the 2019 Turner Prize, which he won jointly with Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani.[16][4] He has held solo exhibitions at multiple institutions including Tate Modern (2018), Hammer Museum (2018) and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (2019), and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[17] Guggenheim, Arts Council England,[18] Van Abbe, Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía[19] and Tate Modern.

Abu Hamdan is a fellow at the University of Chicago,[20] was a guest at the DAAD Artists Program in Berlin in 2017–18,[21] and was a fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York from 2015 to 2017.[22]

Lawrence Abu Hamdan is represented by Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris.[23]

Major works

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  • The Whole Truth (2012).
  • Saydnaya (The Missing 19db) (2017).
  • After SFX (2018).
  • Walled Unwalled (2018).

Exhibitions

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Solo exhibitions

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  • 2012: Aural Contract: The Freedom of Speech Itself, The Showroom, London[24]
  • 2014: Tape Echo, part of Positions, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • 2015. Taqiyya, Kunsthalle St. Gallen[25]
  • 2016: Earshot, Portikus, Frankfurt[24]
  • 2018: Hammer Projects: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles[26]
  • 2018: Walled Unwalled, Tate Modern, London
  • 2018: Earwitness Theatre, Chisenhale Gallery, London[27]
  • 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, a solo exhibition, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam[28]
  • 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
  • 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Witte de With – Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam)
  • 2019: Earwitness Theatre (Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane)
  • 2019: Naqt (Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut)
  • 2019: The Voice Before the Law (Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin)
  • 2020: Artist's Rooms: Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai)
  • 2021: São Paulo Art Biennial (São Paulo)
  • 2021: Dirty Evidence (Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm)
  • 2021: Green Coconuts and Other Inadmissible Evidence (Secession, Vienna)
  • 2022: cross border crimes & the witness-machine complex (Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg)
  • 2022: The Sonic Image (Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah)
  • 2023: Cross-Border Crimes (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City)
  • 2023: Walled Unwalled and Other Monologues (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • 2023: 45th Parallel (Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh)

Group exhibitions

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Publications

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  • Hamdan, Lawrence (2016). Lawrence Abu Hamdan : (inaudible) : a politics of listening in 4 acts. Berlin: Sternberg Press. ISBN 978-3-95679-241-0. OCLC 965200118.

Awards and fellowships

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  • Vera List Center Fellow, New School, New York (2015–17)[33]
  • Nam June Paik Award (2016)[34]
  • DAAD Visual Artists Residency (2017)[35]
  • Abraaj Group Art Prize (2018)
  • 20th Baloise Art Prize (2018)
  • Turner Prize (2019)[4]
  • Edvard Munch Award (2020)
  • Audience Prize of the Toronto Biennale (2022)
  • Glasgow Short Film Festival: Bill Douglas Award (2023)

References

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  1. ^ "Legal Hearing: The Politicized Sound Art of Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Artspace. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Syrian Prison Installation is Put Forward for a Top Art Prize". Al Bawaba. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Turner Prize 2019 shortlist is announced". BBC News. 1 May 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Holland, Oscar (4 December 2019). "Turner Prize won by all four nominees in appeal for 'solidarity'". CNN Style. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b Fenstermaker, Will (June 2023). "Lawrence Abu Hamdan with Will Fenstermaker". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  6. ^ St. Félix, Doreen (22 July 2024). "Hear No Evil". The New Yorker. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Afterall - Equivocally Yours: A Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Afterall. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Lebanese-British artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on sound, memory and the Turner Prize". Arab News. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
  9. ^ "Maureen Paley – Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Maureenpaley.com.
  10. ^ "Artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan Demands the Right to Stay Silent". Vice.com. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  11. ^ "Interview: Lawrence Abu Hamdan—a self-styled 'private ear'". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 14 June 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  12. ^ Cummings, Basia Lewandowska (11 January 2013). "Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Frieze (160). Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  13. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan Turns Snacks into Surveillance at Armory Special Projects". Observer.com. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  14. ^ "Equivocally Yours: A Conversation with Lawrence Abu Hamdan • 39 – Summer 2015 • Afterall". Afterall.org. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  15. ^ Abu Hamdan, Lawrence (8 December 2021). "Ear Witness". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Turner Prize 2019". Tate.
  17. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan – MoMA". Moma.org.
  18. ^ "Search Results | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  19. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Museo Reina Sofía.
  20. ^ "Turner Prize winner brings innovative approach to sound | University of Chicago News". news.uchicago.edu. 16 December 2019. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  21. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan". The New Centre for Research & Practice. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  22. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Vera List Center". Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Vera List Center. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  23. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan - mor charpentier". www.mor-charpentier.com/. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  24. ^ a b "#199 Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Earshot – Portikus Frankfurt". Portikus.de.
  25. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan "تقيه (Taqiyya) the Right to Duplicity" - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen". Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  26. ^ "Hammer Projects: Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  27. ^ "Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Chisenhale Gallery. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  28. ^ "Turner Prize 2019". Tate.
  29. ^ "British Art Show 8". British Art Show 8. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  30. ^ "Artists | Liverpool Biennial: Festival of Contemporary Art". Archived from the original on 5 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  31. ^ "2015 Triennial: Surround Audience". Newmuseum.org.
  32. ^ "Turner Prize 2019". Tate.
  33. ^ "The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics – Lawrence Abu Hamdan". Veralistcenter.org.
  34. ^ "2016 Nam June Paik Award Goes to Lawrence Abu Hamdan – artnet News". News.artnet.com. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  35. ^ "Berliner Künstlerprogramm". Berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de.
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