Hajra Waheed

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

References

  1. ^ a b c Travis, Rebecca (February 2017). "Interview with Hajra Waheed". The White Review. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  2. ^ Proctor, Rebecca Anne (September–October 2014). "Finding Fragments" (PDF). Harper's Bazaar. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e Bailey, Stephanie (31 March 2017). "Systems of Fragments". Ibraaz. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  4. ^ Spence, Rachel (5 April 2016). "Hajra Waheed Interview: "I am Interested in the Space of Not Knowing"" (PDF). Financial Times: 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  5. ^ Martin, Richard (6 April 2016). "Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London". Apollo. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  6. ^ Morgan-Feir, Caoimhe (11 May 2017). "Montreal Artist Hajra Waheed Traces a Rising Tide in Venice". Canadian Art. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Asylum In the Sea". Fonderie Darling. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Quebec - Hajra Waheed". CBC Radio. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  9. ^ "Hajra Waheed". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  10. ^ "The Cyphers 1-18". National Gallery of Canada. 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  11. ^ "In the First Circle. A Project by Imogen Stidworthy". Fundació Antoni Tàpies. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  12. ^ "Lines of Control". Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  13. ^ Mitra, Srimoyee (2013). Looking and Seeing with Hajra Waheed. The Art Gallery of Windsor.
  14. ^ "Collages". Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  15. ^ "Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  16. ^ "La Biennale de Montréal 2014" (in French). Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  17. ^ Moser, Gabrielle (2015). "Watermarks: Hajra Waheed's Asylum in the Sea" (PDF). Asylum in the Sea. Fonderie Darling. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  18. ^ "Hajra Waheed. Still against the sky". KW Institute for Contemporary Art. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  19. ^ "The Missing One". Samdani Art Foundation. 2016. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  20. ^ "Traditional Practices and Alternate Realities: The 2016 Sobey Art Award Exhibition". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  21. ^ "The Eighth Climate (What does art do?)". 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  22. ^ Pritchard, David (2 February 2016). "Review: Hajra Waheed, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art". Corridor8. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  23. ^ "Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie" (in German). Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  24. ^ "Turbulent Landings". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  25. ^ "Artisti" (in Italian). La Biennale di Venezia. 30 March 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  26. ^ "The Video Installation Project 1-10". Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  27. ^ "Hold Everything Dear". The Power Plant. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
    - Wilkinson, Jayne. "Constellations". Canadian Art. Retrieved 5 January 2020.