Education
| 2004 | Meisterschueler, Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin |
| 2002 | MA Visual Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore |
| 1999 | BFA, National College of Arts, Lahore |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 | Cities, Green Cardamom, London |
| 2010 | Cityscapes, OUTLET Independent Art Space, Istanbul |
| 2009 | Video Art by Hamra Abbas, Babusch Project Space, Berlin |
| 2008 | Adventures 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 |
| 2006 | Hamra Abbas, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung Galerie, Berlin Lessons on Love, Rohtas 2, Lahore |
Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | Medi(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 |
| 2010 | The 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 |
| 2009 | Aluminium, 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.) |
| 2008 | Recently 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 |
| 2007 | Not 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 |
| 2006 | Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Beyond the Page, Asia House, London and Manchester Art Gallery Open day, Vasl International Artists Workshop, Gadani |
| 2005 | Zeitsprünge 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 |
| 2004 | Meisterschueler 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
| 2010 | Abraaj Capital Art Prize Winner 2011 |
| 2009 | Jury Prize, Sharjah Biennial 9 – Provisions for the Future Finalist for Jameel prize, V&A Museum, London |
| 2006 | Residency, Gasworks, V&A Museum and Green Cardamom, London |
| 2005 | Scholarship, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, Berlin Residence scholarship, Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, Schoeppingen |
| 2004 | Meisterschueler Prize, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, New York 8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Guetersloh |
| 2003 | Fellowship Award, artist-in-residence, Vermont Studio Center, USA DAAD Scholarship, Germany |