CV – Hajra Waheed
www.hajrawaheed.com
Education
2007 – 11 Phd Comparative Education, McGill University - Comprehensive Exams
2005 – 07 MA Degree, McGill University, Montréal, QC
1998 – 02 BFA Degree, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1995 – 98 High School Diploma, Emma Willard School, Troy, NY
Exhibitions – Solo
2014 Character 1: In the Rough (from Sea Change), Solo Exhibition Booth, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2013 Minutes From A Second Story, Center A, Vancouver, BC
Field Notes and Other Backstories, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, CA
Sea Change, Experimenter, Kolkata, IND
2012 The Scrapbook Project, Green Cardamom, London, UK
Exhibitions – Group
2014 Collages: Gesture and Fragments, Museum of Contemporary Art Montreal, Montreal, QC
Lines of Control, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, NC
Equations of Sight-Similarity, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
Art Dubai Commissioned Projects: Art Dubai: 8th Edition, Dubai, UAE
India Art Fair, Delhi, IN
2013 Graveyard of Defiance, Features Section: Art Basel, Switzerland
Art Dubai: 7th Edition, Dubai, UAE
India Art Fair: 5th Edition, Delhi, IN
2012 A Permanent Record For Future Investigation, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
ArtasFoundation: A Tone of Art, HD Centre For Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, CH
Come Invest In Us. You’ll Strike Gold, Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, AU
Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
India Art Fair: 4th Edition, New Delhi, IND
(In) The First Circle, Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, ES
2011 Changing Stakes, Mercer Union: Center For Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA
ArtHK11: Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, PRC
Different Abstractions, Green Cardamom, London, UK
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
2010 Drawn From Life: Drawing Form, Green Cardamom, London, UK
ArtHK10: Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong, PRC
2009 Amnesty International Art Exhibition/Auction, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, QC
Paper Planes, SAVAC Juried Members Show: VMAC Gallery, Toronto, CA
How Nations Are Made, Bradford Museums, Ilkley, UK
Lines of Control, Green Cardamom, London, UK; VM Gallery, Karachi, PK; The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Awards & Scholarships
2013 Visual Arts Production Grant: Canada Council for the Arts, Montréal, QC
Visual Arts Travel Grant: CALQ Montréal, QC
2012 Visual Arts Production Grant: Canada Council for the Arts, Montréal, QC
Innovation Grant: British Columbia Arts Council, Vancouver BC
2011 Visual Arts Travel Grant: Canada Council for the Arts, Montréal, QC
Visual Arts Travel Grant (x2): CALQ Montréal, QC
2009 Visual Arts Travel Grant: CALQ Montréal, QC
Press, Publications and Presentations
2013 Guest Panelist: 2013 Canadian Public Arts Funders, Sept
Exhibition Highlight: NZZ Swiss/German Newspaper, Statements Art Basel, June
Review: Canadian Art Magazine, Canadians Ship Out to Art Basel, June
Review: Among The Ruins, Times Crest, Culture, June
Review: Ocula, Art Basel Part 1 – Return to the Art(s), June
Exhibition Highlight: Experimenter Gallery at Art Basel, ArtINFO, June
Review, The 5th India Art Fair and Parallel Events, Art Agenda, February
Critics Pick & Review: An Archive of the Missing, ArtSlant, February
Exhibition Review: Into Something Rich and Strange, Telegraph India, February
Artist Interview & Exhibition Slideshow: ArtINFO India, January
2012 Lines of Control: Partition As A Productive Space, Book Publication, April
Audio Slideshow, Middle Eastern Art Stars, The Guardian (Arts & Culture -Online), Nov
Artist Talk: The Delfina Foundation, London UK
Exhibition Catalog: Come Invest In Us. You’ll Strike Gold, Vienna, Austria
Artist Lecture: Borders of Language Symposium: Tapies Foundation, Barcelona
2011 Review: Changing Stakes, Canadian Art Magazine (Online), December
Review: New Currents: Ghosts In the Lens, Art Asia Pacific Magazine, July/August Issue
Listing: Top Ten London Shows (April), SAATCHI Online, Different Abstractions, GC, London
2010 Review: Foreign Palette: Going Places, DAWN NEWS, June 6, Pakistan
Lecture: Where Three Dreams Cross: 150 Years of Photography from India and Bangladesh,
Symposium, White Chapel Gallery, Feb. 19, London UK
Drawn From Life: Drawing Form, A Green Cardamom Publication, Eddie Chambers, UK
2009 Review: Art Mart: A Contemporary Approach, DAWN NEWS, December 20, PK
Review: Lines of Control– Eliza Williams, Frieze Magazine, March 3, London, UK
Radio Interview: Lines of Control, The Strand, BBC News Radio, February 17, London
Radio Interview: BSN (British Satellite News), February 18, London, UK
Review: Stories of Us and Them, Khaleej Times, January 24, UAE
Review: Form and Color of Divided Destinies, Gulf News, January 24, UAE
Selected Institutional Collections
2012 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York USA
2011 John Jones Collection, London UK
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York USA
British Museum, London UK
Hajra Waheed - BIO
Hajra Waheed's (1980) work has over the years, sought to address personal, national and
cultural identity formation in relation to political history, popular imagination and the broad
impact of colonial power within a global context. Her mixed media practice, made up primarily
of drawn transfers, collages and/or expired film onto old and aged paper from as early as 1935
continues to amass a growing personal archive- one in response to all those seemingly lost
amongst rapid regional development and/or political strife. In continuation with a long-standing
interest in producing undisclosed documents, her works remains rich in reference yet spare in
form – a combination that makes them seem like secret notes or ciphers. –All of Waheed's
works remain on-going and in this way are as much about stitching back stories over time as
they are about unraveling new ones.
Hajra Waheed has participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide, most recently including In
the First Circle, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona (2011-12); Lines of Control, Herbert F.
Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (2012); Come Invest In Us: You'll Strike Gold, Brot Kunsthalle,
Vienna (2012) and The Scrapbook Project, Green Cardamom (2012), London. Her debut solo
exhibition in India, Sea Change at Experimenter, Kolkata (2013) received wide international
acclaim. Her debut Canadian public solo exhibition Fieldnotes and Other Backstories (2013) at
the Art Gallery of Windsor, brought close to 100 works together to Canada for the first time.
Hajra Waheed's work can be found in a number of permanent collections including the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, the British Museum and John Jones Collection, UK. She lives and
works in Montreal, Canada.