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Education

2004Meisterschueler, Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin
2002MA Visual Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore
1999BFA, National College of Arts, Lahore

Solo Exhibitions

2011Cities, Green Cardamom, London
2010Cityscapes, OUTLET Independent Art Space, Istanbul
2009Video Art by Hamra Abbas, Babusch Project Space, Berlin
2008Adventures of the Woman in Black, Green Cardamom, London
New works by Hamra Abbas, NCA Gallery, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
God Grows on Trees, Schultz Contemporary, Berlin
Hamra Abbas, Zahoor-al-Akhlaq Gallery, NCA, Lahore
2006Hamra Abbas, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung Galerie, Berlin
Lessons on Love, Rohtas 2, Lahore

Group Exhibitions

2011Medi(t)ation – 2011 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Home Spun, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon
Everyday Miracles (Extended), Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, CA
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
The Power of Doubt, PhotoEspagna 2011, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid | Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Dubai
2010The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan 1990-2010, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi
UNERWARTET/UNEXPECTED, Kunst Museum Bochum, Germany
ResembleReassemble, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon
Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
2009Aluminium, 4th International  Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan
2nd International Incheon Woman Artists’ Biennale, S. Korea (cat.)
Everyday Miracles (Extended), Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, CA
Everyday Miracles (Extended), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Hanging Fire, Asia Society Museum, New York (cat.)
Read, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
Mashq, Green Cardamom, London
Jameel Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
International Artists’ Workshop, PRAXIS: Art in Times of Uncertainty, 2nd Thessaloniki  Biennale (cat.)
Anomalies, Rossi & Rossi, London
Starring the Artist, Indus Valley School Gallery, Karachi
9th Sharjah Biennale – Provisions for the Future, UAE  (cat.)
2008Recently Seen and Admired, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin
The Audience and the Eavesdropper: New Art From India and Pakistan, Phillips de Pury & Company, London (cat.)
Drawn From Life, Green Cardamom, London (cat.)
Buffaloes in Combat, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Farewell to Post-Colonialism, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (cat.)
Crossroads, Elementa Art Gallery, UAE
In-Situ, Shake Before Use, ARTIUM de Alava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007Not Only Possible But Also Necessary-Optimism In The Age Of Global War, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (catalog)
Urban Myths and Modern Fables, UTS Gallery, Sydney (catalog)
Inaugural show, National Art Gallery, Islamabad (catalog)
Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Thomas Erben, NYC
Politics of Fear, Albion gallery, London
2006Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Beyond the Page, Asia House, London and Manchester Art Gallery
Open day, Vasl International Artists Workshop, Gadani
2005Zeitsprünge Raumfolgen, ifa Galerie, Berlin, Stuttgart
Full House, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen
Meisterschueler Prize Winners of UdK, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
KOVIDEO 1st Durban Video Festival, Mumbai
Beyond Borders, Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai
2004Meisterschueler Prize Exhibition, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin, Berlin
Aarpaar 3, Lahore | Karachi | Mumbai
Miniature from Pakistan, Fukuoka Museum of Asian Art, Fukuoka
Open Studios, Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Guetersloh
FreiRäume, A Project by FreiStil e.V., Berlin
Love It or Leave It, 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje
Creative Insecurity, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Meisterschueler Exhibition, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin
Along the X-Axis: Digital Art From India and Pakistan, New Delhi
Playing with a Loaded Gun, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2003 Junger Westen 2003, Kunsthalle Rechlinghausen, Rechlinghausen

Selected Publications
Anita Dawood & Sharmini Pereira (eds.), Hamra Abbas Object Lessons (London: Green Cardamom London, 2009)
Salima Hashmi (ed.), Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art From Pakistan (New York: Asia Society, New York, 2009)
Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman (eds.), Younger Than Jesus | Artist Directory (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2009)
Yang Enhee (ed.) So Close Yet So Far Away: 2009 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (Incheon: Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale Organizing Commitee, 2009)
’One Artist for 2009’ Art Asia Pacific Annual (New York), 2008
Hoor Al Qasimi, Jack Persekian et al, Provisions: Sharjah Biennial 9, Book 1 (New York and Sharjah: Bidoun and Sharjah Biennial, 2009)
Hammad Nasar, ‚’Pakistan: An Art of Extremes’, Orientations, Vol. 40, No. 1, January/February 2009
Claudia Wahjudid, ’Korperstudien’, Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 3rd February, 2009
Wang Huangsheng, Gao Shiming, Sarat Maharaj , Chang Tsong-zung, Farewell to Post-colonialism: The Third Guangzhou Triennial (Guangzhou: Publishing House of China Academy of Art, 2008)
Quddus Mirza ’Icons of Our Times’, News (Karachi), 31st August, 2008
Aarti Dua, Art Across Borders, Grafiti: The Telegraph Magazine (Calcutta),  22nd June 2008
Enrique Martinez Goikoetxea, ‚’Shake Before Use. Nine Names,’ In Situ Shake Before Use (Vitoria Gasteiz: Artium, Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, 2008)
Hammad Nasar, Financial Times (London), Monday, 17th March, 2008
Haema Sivanesan, Urban Myths and Modern Fables (Toronto: Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto & South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), 2008)
Ilkay Baliç Ayvaz (ed.), Not Only Possible But Also Necessary – Optimism in the Age of Global War, 10th International Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2007)
Claudia Richter, ’Politik und Kamasutra’, Die Tageszeitung (Berlin), 18th  September, 2007
Virginia Whiles, ’Hamra Abbas’ Contemporary Annual, 2006
Anita Dawood & Hammad Nasar (eds) Beyond The Page (London and Manchester: Asia House, Green Cardamom, Manchester Art Gallery and Shisha, 2006)
Charles Merewether (ed) Zones of Contact, 2006 Biennale of Sydney (Sydney: The Biennale of Sydney, 2006)
Hamra Abbas: Objekte und Installation (UdK Berlin: Berlin, 2005)
Kama Sutra heykelinin, newspaper article, Sabah, 10th September, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
Checkpoint Charley: 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, (Berlin: Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2005)
Zdravka Bajovi, René Block, Birgit Eusterschulte (eds.), Love it or Leave it: 5th Cetinje Biennial (Cetinje and Kassel: National Museum of Montenegro & Kunstalle Fridericianum, 2004)
Virginia Whiles, Contemporary Asian Artists III – Contemporary Miniature Paintings from Pakistan (Fukuoka, Japan: Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, 2004)
Ateeqa Ali, ’Playing with a Loaded Gun’, Playing with a Loaded Gun (Kassel, Germany: Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 2004)

Residencies/Awards/Scholarships

2010Abraaj Capital Art Prize Winner 2011
2009Jury Prize, Sharjah Biennial 9 – Provisions for the Future Finalist for Jameel prize, V&A Museum, London
2006Residency, Gasworks, V&A Museum and Green Cardamom, London
2005Scholarship, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, Berlin
Residence scholarship, Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, Schoeppingen
2004Meisterschueler Prize, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin
Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, New York
8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Guetersloh
2003Fellowship Award, artist-in-residence, Vermont Studio Center, USA
DAAD Scholarship, Germany