Hamra Abbas' is a versatile practice, one that straddles a range of media, from paper collage and painting to ephemeral soft Plasticine sculpture and video. Her works often take a playful look towards widely accepted traditions. By appropriating culturally loaded imagery and iconography, and transforming them into new works that may be experienced spatially and temporally, she creates new platforms from which to view notions of culture, tradition and exchange.
Abbas was awarded a Jury prize at the Sharjah Biennial 9 : Provisions for the Future. She was picked by Art Asia Pacific magazine as their One Artist to Watch for 2009. Her work will be included in Aluminium, 4th International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan, the International Artist's Workshop of the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial (2009) and the 2nd International Incheon Women Artists Biennale, Korea (2009). Her work was included in the Guangzou Triennial (2009), the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007), the Biennale of Sydney (2006) and the Cetinje Biennial (2004). Abbas' work has been exhibited at V&A Museum, London, ARTIUM, Vittoria-Gasteiz, Spain, ifa Gallery, Berlin; and the Manchester Art Gallery, UK. Her work Read is currently at display at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
In 2009 she will also exhibit in "Hanging Fire" at Asia Society Museum, New York in September and "Everyday Miracles (Extended)" at Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute and at REDCAT (Los Angeles) in November. She has been awarded residencies and scholarships by institutions such as Art Omi, Vermont Studio Center, the Triangle Arts Trust, VASL and DAAD. Hamra received her BFA and MA in Visual Arts at the National College of Arts, Lahore before going on to the Universitaet der Kuenste in Berlin in 2004 where she received the Meisterschueler. She lives and works between Boston and Islamabad.
When: 12:30 pm
Where: Riley Seminar Room, Museum fo Fine Arts, Boston
Credit: Hamra Abbas, The Buffalos in Combat, 2008. Installation shot. Courtesy of the artist.
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