Hajra Waheed Explained

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. 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. [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.[10]

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interview with Hajra Waheed. Travis. Rebecca. February 2017. The White Review. 26 February 2018.
  2. Proctor. Rebecca Anne. September–October 2014. Finding Fragments. Harper's Bazaar. 26 February 2018. 24 August 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160824215933/http://hajrawaheed.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/HarpersBazaar_2014_HighRes_WriteUp.pdf. dead.
  3. Web site: Systems of Fragments. Bailey. Stephanie. 31 March 2017. Ibraaz. 26 February 2018.
  4. Spence. Rachel. 5 April 2016. 13. Hajra Waheed Interview: "I am Interested in the Space of Not Knowing". Financial Times. 27 February 2018. 21 December 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161221221312/http://hajrawaheed.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FTARTICLE_HajraWaheed_2016.pdf. dead.
  5. News: Surveillance and secrecy in Gateshead and London. Martin. Richard. 6 April 2016. Apollo. 26 February 2018.
  6. News: Montreal Artist Hajra Waheed Traces a Rising Tide in Venice. Morgan-Feir. Caoimhe. 11 May 2017. Canadian Art. 26 February 2018.
  7. Web site: Asylum In the Sea. Fonderie Darling. 10 July 2021.
  8. News: Quebec - Hajra Waheed. CBC Radio. 7 November 2016. 26 February 2018.
  9. Web site: Hajra Waheed. The Museum of Modern Art. 5 January 2020.
  10. Web site: The Cyphers 1-18. National Gallery of Canada. 2016. 5 January 2020.
  11. Web site: In the First Circle. A Project by Imogen Stidworthy. Fundació Antoni Tàpies. 26 February 2018. 18 February 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120218142149/http://www.fundaciotapies.org/site/spip.php?article7045. dead.
  12. Web site: Lines of Control. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. 26 February 2018.
  13. Book: Mitra, Srimoyee. Looking and Seeing with Hajra Waheed. The Art Gallery of Windsor. 2013.
  14. News: Collages. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. 26 February 2018.
  15. News: Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. 26 February 2018.
  16. News: La Biennale de Montréal 2014 . Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. 26 February 2018. fr.
  17. News: Watermarks: Hajra Waheed's Asylum in the Sea. Moser. Gabrielle. Fonderie Darling. 2015. Asylum in the Sea. 26 February 2018.
  18. News: Hajra Waheed. Still against the sky. 11 October 2015. KW Institute for Contemporary Art. 26 February 2018.
  19. Web site: The Missing One. 2016. Samdani Art Foundation. 26 February 2018. 11 December 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191211110700/https://www.samdani.com.bd/the-missing-one. dead.
  20. Web site: Traditional Practices and Alternate Realities: The 2016 Sobey Art Award Exhibition. National Gallery of Canada. 26 February 2018.
  21. News: The Eighth Climate (What does art do?). 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016. 26 February 2018.
  22. News: Review: Hajra Waheed, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Pritchard. David. February 2, 2016. Corridor8. 26 February 2018.
  23. Web site: Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie. Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie. de. 26 February 2018. 5 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190405190435/https://biennalefotografie.de/edition/ausstellungen. dead.
  24. Web site: Turbulent Landings. National Gallery of Canada. 26 February 2018.
  25. News: Artisti. 30 March 2017. La Biennale di Venezia. 26 February 2018. it.
  26. News: The Video Installation Project 1-10. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. 26 February 2018.
  27. Web site: Hold Everything Dear. The Power Plant. 24 July 2019.
    - Web site: Constellations. Wilkinson. Jayne. Canadian Art. 5 January 2020.

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