hamra abbas

City and the Everyday

hamra — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:03:37 +0000

City and the Everyday, PILOT, Istanbul
April 3 – May 19, 2012

SAM

hamra — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:56:48 +0000

The Collectors Show: Chimera, Singapore Art Museum
January 14 – March 25, 2012

Cities

hamra — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:13:34 +0000

Hamra Abbas: Cities
Green Cardamom, London
Private View, Thursday September 8th, 2011
Exhibition continues till October 21st, 2011

Sympathy for the Devil

hamra — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:28:43 +0000

Vanhaerents Art Collection, Sympathy for the Devil, Brussels
April 30th, 2011-November 30th, 2013

Power of Doubt

hamra — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:06:39 +0000

PHotoEspaña 2011, Power of Doubt curated by Hou Hanru
Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid
June 2nd-September 11th, 2011

Interview Power of doubt

hamra — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:16:00 +0000

Interview with Hamra Abbas: “All works involve some degree of complication”

ACAP 2011

hamra — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:27:52 +0000

Hamra Abbas | 2011 Winner

About the Abraaj Capital Art Prize:

Announced in 2008, at US$ 1 million in disbursements, it is the world’s most generous art

prize. Annually it rewards chosen artists from the MENASA region on the basis of a

proposal rather than completed works-of-art. The winning artists then go on to create the

works.

Talk @ Asia Society/CAMH

hamra — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:46:58 +0000

Hamra Abbas: Artist Talk organized by Asia Society, Houston
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 – 7 pm

Hamra Abbas @ Harvard University

hamra — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:43:16 +0000

Hamra Abbas | The Second Annual Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Conference

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
April 17th-18th, 2010

Talk @ ROM 2

hamra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:13:37 +0000

Hamra Abbas: An Intimate Artist’s Talk
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON
Friday, March 19, 2010 – 7 pm

Beyond the Page

hamra — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:45:24 +0000

Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
February 18, 2010 – June 27, 2010

Beyond the page_review

hamra — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:10:07 +0000

Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Pakistan to Open at Pacific Asia Museum

Love Yourself @ San Francisco Art Institute, CA

hamra — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:15:07 +0000

EVERYDAY MIRACLES (EXTENDED)
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
October 1, 2009 – January 30, 2010

Paradise Bath @ RedCat, LA

hamra — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:45:44 +0000

EVERYDAY MIRACLES (EXTENDED)
RedCat, Los Angeles, CA
Guest curated by Hou Hanru
November 22, 2009 – January 17, 2010

Ride 2 @ Asia Society Museum, New York

hamra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:13:06 +0000

Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan
Asia Society Museum, New York, NY
September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010

Read @ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

hamra — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:21:31 +0000

Hamra Abbas: Read
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Institute for Contemporary Culture
Until March 28, 2010

ICC’s Read

hamra — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:58:01 +0000

ICC’s Read Provides Another Response to the ROM’s Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition

Ride 2 @ Asia Society, NY

hamra — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:37:32 +0000

Contradictions Remain Vital to Pakistan and Its Art
by Randy Kennedy
The New York Times, September 2, 2009

Visiting Artist Lecture: Hamra Abbas

hamra — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:17:17 +0000

Visiting Artist Lecture: Hamra Abbas
Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Work_Idols

hamra — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:02:33 +0000

<< click thumbnail for slideshows
Idols (2012). Over the years, I have consistently produced work that involves an element of interaction with its place of origin. It is so that I have been taking photographs of people in Cambridge and Boston over the last one year, and in Istanbul more recently, where I was invited to spend some time. During this time, news of economic slowdown, high rates of unemployment and the Occupy Movements have been constantly in focus in the media. This forecast of events seemed to be confirmed by the daily protests taking place across many cities. I began to take note of the quotidian in my immediate environment and took to photography as the most efficient means to do so. I photographed random people while running chores on a daily bases, photographing people working at the supermarkets, post offices, deli stores, restaurants, T stations, construction sites, street vendors, handy-men, and taxi-drivers etc. This gradually turned into a photo journal of the day-to-day. Asking to take their photograph for no reason other than my being an artist animated and displaced the moment, expanded time. In exchanging greetings, and short encounters, I realized how a quick contact and a conversation with a stranger, does entangle or compel us into a web of relationship, and has the potential to transform us. Later on, I started turning each photograph into a tiny sculpture and storing it away in a box. Over a period of time, I had a number of boxes, and hundreds of heads. 22 heads as prints are currently on display. Idols is an ongoing work.