Saba Hasan Explained

Saba Hasan
Birth Place:	New Delhi, India
Occupation:	Artist
Years Active:	1996–present

Saba Hasan is an Indian contemporary artist who is based in Goa and New Delhi.

She has a BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi University, New Delhi and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University New York. She has also trained in art at the Ceruleum - Ecole d’arts Visuels, Lausanne^[1] and art history at the University of Cambridge, UK.^{[2] [3]}

Her work includes painting, photography, book installations, voice works and film.^[4] Her works are with collectors in India, UK, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Japan, Holland, USA, Spain and France.

Shows and exhibitions

An active artist since 1996, Hasan has participated in several art shows, exhibitions, biennale's, photo exhibitions and film festivals. Some of these include:

!Year!Event!Venue

2023	Cinemistica Festival (Official Selection: Art Film Category)	Corrala de Santiago, Granada, Spain ^[5]
2023	Amarcort Film Festival (Finalist: Experimental Films)	Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy ^[6]
2022	International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Official Selection: Artist Film Category, Catalog 2022)	Bideodromo, Bilbao Arte Fundazio, Bilbao, Spain ^[7]
2022	Festival of Experimental Videos & Films (Official selection)	Fisura (2022) Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico ^[8]
2022	Posthumous Dialogues With Artist FN Souza (Curator: Sabitha Satchidanandan)	The Museum of Goa (MOG), Pilerne, Goa, India ^[9] ^[10]
2021	National Exhibition of Women Artists (Curator: Uma Nair)	National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India ^[11]
2019	Short film The Saba Bandagi Shah Project	Official selection at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India ^[12]
2019	Short film Burnt Books 6	Part of Cinema of Resistance collective at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India ^[13]
2018	Short film Twilight On The Lake	Official selection at the Chelsea Film Festival, New York, USA Official selection at Balinale, the Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia ^[14]
2017	The Universe of Interconnected Experiences	Alliance Française, New Delhi, India ^[15]
2016	Video and Photography Show	Tenshin Okakura Gallery, Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India ^[16]
2015	Video project Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems	Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India ^[17]
2014	Video project Haqeeqat/The Truth/La Verite	Exhibition of Celeste Art Prize Finalists at Assab One, Milan, Italy
2013	Song of a Departing Day	La Biennale di Venezia, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ^[18] ^[19]
2013	The Sketchbook Project	Brooklyn Art Library, New York, USA ^[20]
2013	Sound program Audio Portraits in Space	Osso Radio Sound Festival, Lisbon, Portugal ^[21]
2011	Visual Ventures	Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India ^[22]
2010	Contemporary Drawings	Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India
2010	Sound Installation	Oscar Kokoschka Akademie, Salzburg, Austria
2008	Ten Creative Forces	Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, IndiaNavya Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore, India
2007	Art for Freedom	Bonhams Asia House Auction, London, UK
2007	Indifferent History	Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
2006	Letters from Baton Rouge	Paris, France
2005	Florence Biennale	Florence, Italy
2004	The Written Word	Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India
1996	Debut Solo Show	India International Centre, New Delhi, India

Awards and recognition

Some of Hasan's awards and accolades include:

• 2023: Vienna International Film Awards, Austria ^[23]
• 2023: Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Germany ^[24]
• 2022: Indo-French International Film Festival, Pondicherry, India ^[25]
• 2022: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA ^{[26] [27]}
• 2014: MIFA: Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia ^[28]
• 2014: Celeste Contemporary Art Prize Nomination, Milan, Italy
• 2008: RPG Art Residency, Madh Island, India ^[29]
• 2007: Award for Painting, Raza Foundation, India ^[30]
• 2006: Residency in Paris, Government of France ^[31]
• 2002: Residency, George Keyt Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka ^[29]
• 1998: Ceruleum : Ecole D’Arts Visuels - Academie, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1986: Fellowship in Culture Studies, Syracuse University, New York, USA

Bibliography

• Saba Hasan : undeciphered fates, Barefoot publishers, New York
• The Indian Art Collectors Handbook by Dr Alka Pande, India
• Ten Creative Forces by Keshav Malik, Ravi Kumar Publishers,Paris
• International Contemporary Artists by Olga Antoniadou,
• Islamic Art, Past and Modern by Nuzhat Kazmi, Roli Books
• Samvaya published by the Raza Foundation, India
• Hidden Art Treasures, International Art, United Kingdom

Notes and References

1. 18 December 2018 . [Cover image, 'The Book of Disquiet,' by Saba Hasan] ]. live . Guftugu: Culture Matters . 13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231109164504/https://guftugu.in/2018/12/18/issue-13-cover-by-saba-hasan/ . 9 November 2023 . 25 June 2024.
2. Web site: Art and Visual Culture Summer Programme. Henry. Claire. 2017-11-13. www.ice.cam.ac.uk. en. 2019-09-12.
3. Web site: Saba Hasan . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230824044927/https://www.therazafoundation.org/awards-Saba-Hasan . 24 August 2023 . 14 March 2022 . The Raza Foundation . en.
4. Web site: Saba Hasan . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230824044919/https://www.lensculture.com/saba-hasan . 24 August 2023 . 6 September 2019 . LensCulture.
5. Web site: 2023-10-26 . PROGRAMA / PROGRAMME / 9º FESTIVAL CINEMÍSTICA 2023 ESPEJOS DE AMOR Blog de ARTE7 CINEMATECA / CINEMÍSTICA . 2023-11-27 . es.
6. Web site: [e-mail] . Fabio Ceccarelli- . Amarcort Film Festival . 2023-11-27 . Amarcort Film Festival . it.
7. Web site: BIDEODROMO international experimental film and video festival . 2023-11-27 . www.bideodromo.com.
8. Web site: Instagram . 2023-11-27 . www.instagram.com.
9. Web site: Ilavia . Perin . 2022-05-18 . Through the eyes of renowned modernist Indian artist, FN Souza . 2023-11-27 . Gomantak Times . en.
10. Web site: Daniya . 2022-05-13 . Guftugu Posthumous Dialogues with F N Souza . 2023-11-27 . Guftugu . en-US.
11. Web site: 2021-03-13 . Around Town: Theatre, art, music and more . 2023-11-27 . The Indian Express . en.
12. Web site: The Saba Bandagi Shah Project. IDSFFK Online. en-US. 2019-09-06.
13. Web site: Cinema of Resistance: Curated by Amrit Gangar – IDSFFK Online. en-US. 2019-09-06.
14. Web site: Twilight on the Lake – International Shorts – Balinale. en. 2019-09-06.
15. Web site: Art Exhibition: The Universe of Interconnected Experiences: Works by SABA HASAN. Delhi. Alliance Française de. Alliance Française de Delhi. en-US. 2019-09-06.
16. Web site: saba hasan - About Celeste Network. Italy. www celesteprize com-Celeste Network-. www.celesteprize.com. 2019-09-06.
17. Web site: AF Delhi Explores a Universe of Interconnected Experiences : AF Magazine India Nepal. en. 2019-09-14.
18. Web site: Imago Mundi. www.imagomundiart.com. 2019-09-13.
19. Web site: Imago Mundi. www.imagomundiart.com. 2019-09-13.
20. Web site: Imago Mundi. www.imagomundiart.com. 2019-09-06.
21. Web site: 'Abstract art helps express what words can't describe'. The Punch. 30 March 2017. en. 2023-03-25.
22. Web site: admin . Saba Hasan The Raza Foundation . 2019-09-06 . www.therazafoundation.org . en-us.
23. Web site: VIFA Vienna International Film Awards . 2023-11-09 . www.viennainternationalfilmawards.com . en-AT.
24. Web site: Winners 2023 – Mannheim Arts and Film Festival . 2023-09-01 . en-US.
25. Web site: death will come like a shadow . 2023-11-27 . FilmFreeway . en.
26. Web site: 2022-06-29 . Indian artist Saba Hasan wins Pollock Grant 2022 . 2022-07-07 . Times of India Blog . en-US.
27. Web site: Saba Hasan Works Pollock Krasner Image Collection . 2022-07-07 . www.pkf-imagecollection.org . en.
28. Web site: Single Winner. MIFA. 2019-09-13.
29. Web site: Imago Mundi Collection . 2023-05-01 . imagomundicollection.org.
30. Web site: admin . Saba Hasan The Raza Foundation . 2023-05-01 . www.therazafoundation.org . en-us.
31. Web site: 2019-10-04 . Artists . 2023-05-01 . en.