Hajra Waheed
Hajra Waheed is a Canadian artist.[1] Her multimedia practice includes works on paper, collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation. [2] Waheed uses 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] At the age of fourteen Waheed moved to New York, where she attended the Emma Willard School. [1] 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 can be found in permanent collections around the world, including the MoMA, British Museum, the Devi Art Foundation, Samdani Art Foundation, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada. [2]
Exhibitions
- The Video Installation Project, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2017)[9]
- Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale, Venice, (2017)[10]
- Turbulent Landings: NGC Canadian Biennial, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, (2017)[11]
- Farewell Photography, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, (2017)[12]
- The Cyphers, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, (2016)[2][13]
- 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)[14]
- Sobey Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, (2016)[15]
- The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, (2016)[16]
- Still Against the Sky, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, London, (2015)[17]
- Asylum in the Sea, Foundarie Darling, Montréal, 2015[18]
- La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2014)[19]
- Lines of Control, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, (2014)[20]
- Collages: Gesture and Fragments, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2014)[21]
- Field Notes and Other Backstories, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, (2013)[22]
- Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, (2012)[23]
- (In) The First Circle, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona (2012)[24]
References
- ^ a b c d 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.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ 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.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Darling Foundry | Asylum In the Sea". fonderiedarling.org. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "Quebec - Hajra Waheed". CBC Radio. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ "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.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "the8thclimate.org". 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016: The Eighth Climate (What does art do?). Retrieved 2018-02-26.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ 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.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "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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