Hajra Waheed is a Montréal-based artist.[1][2] Her multimedia practice includes works on paper, collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation. [3] 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.[4]
Waheed was born in 1980 in Canada.[5] 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] 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. [3] 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 Museum of Modern Art,[9] the British Museum, the Devi Art Foundation, Samdani Art Foundation, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the National Gallery of Canada.[3][10]
Exhibitions edit
- (In) The First Circle, Antoni Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona (2012)[11]
- Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, (2012)[12]
- Field Notes and Other Backstories, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, (2013)[13]
- Collages: Gesture and Fragments, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2014)[14]
- Lines of Control, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, (2014)[15]
- La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2014)[16]
- Asylum in the Sea, Fonderie Darling, Montréal, 2015[17]
- Still Against the Sky, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, London, (2015)[18]
- The Missing One, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, (2016)[19]
- Sobey Art Award Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, (2016)[20]
- The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, (2016)[21]
- Sea Change - Chapter 1, Character 1: In the Rough, Mosaic Rooms, London (2016)[3]
- The Cyphers, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, (2016)[3][22]
- Farewell Photography, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, (2017)[23]
- Turbulent Landings: NGC Canadian Biennial, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, (2017)[24]
- Viva Arte Viva, Venice Biennale, Venice, (2017)[25]
- The Video Installation Project, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, (2017)[26]
- Hold Everything Dear, The Power Plant, Toronto, (2019)[27]
References edit
- ^ a b c Travis, Rebecca (February 2017). "Interview with Hajra Waheed". The White Review. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Proctor, Rebecca Anne (September–October 2014). "Finding Fragments" (PDF). Harper's Bazaar.
- ^ a b c d e Bailey, Stephanie (31 March 2017). "Systems of Fragments". Ibraaz. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Spence, Rachel (5 April 2016). "Hajra Waheed Interview: "I am Interested in the Space of Not Knowing"" (PDF). Financial Times: 13.
- ^ Martin, Richard (6 April 2016). "Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London". Apollo. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Morgan-Feir, Caoimhe (11 May 2017). "Montreal Artist Hajra Waheed Traces a Rising Tide in Venice". Canadian Art. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Asylum In the Sea". Fonderie Darling. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "Quebec - Hajra Waheed". CBC Radio. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Hajra Waheed". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "The Cyphers 1-18". National Gallery of Canada. 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
- ^ "In the First Circle. A Project by Imogen Stidworthy". Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Lines of Control". Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Mitra, Srimoyee (2013). Looking and Seeing with Hajra Waheed. The Art Gallery of Windsor.
- ^ "Collages". Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "La Biennale de Montréal 2014" (in French). Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Moser, Gabrielle (2015). "Watermarks: Hajra Waheed's Asylum in the Sea" (PDF). Asylum in the Sea. Fonderie Darling. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Hajra Waheed. Still against the sky". KW Institute for Contemporary Art. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "The Missing One". Samdani Art Foundation. 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Traditional Practices and Alternate Realities: The 2016 Sobey Art Award Exhibition". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "The Eighth Climate (What does art do?)". 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ Pritchard, David (2 February 2016). "Review: Hajra Waheed, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art". Corridor8. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie" (in German). Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Turbulent Landings". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Artisti" (in Italian). La Biennale di Venezia. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "The Video Installation Project 1-10". Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- ^ "Hold Everything Dear". The Power Plant. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- Wilkinson, Jayne. "Constellations". Canadian Art. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
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