Hajra Waheed

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. [3] 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. [1][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.[3][10]

Exhibitions

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


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