Huma Bhabha

(Pakistani, born 1962)

untitled (from reconstructions) by huma bhabha

Huma Bhabha

Untitled (from Reconstructions), 2007

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untitled (from reconstructions) by huma bhabha

Huma Bhabha

Untitled (from Reconstructions), 2007

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1962
Born in Karachi, Pakistan
1985
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1989
MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
2008
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Emerging Artist Award
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Emerging Artist Award
2013
Berlin Prize, Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship, The American Academy in Berlin
Lives and works in Poughkeepsie, NY

Exhibitions

2020
Huma Bhabha Selected Exhibitions in 2020:
Huma Bhabha. David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (solo exhibition)
NIRIN, The 22nd Biennale Of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, U.K.
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Collectouples, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Stations, Lustwarande, Tilburg, Netherlands
Strange Attractors, Apalazzo Gallery
2019
Huma Bhabha Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
The Company, Gagosian, Rome, Italy (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha, Borch Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha: They Live, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
Zombies: Pay Attention!, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Raid the Icebox Now with Simone Leigh, The Chorus, RISD Museum
Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park, London, U.K.
Yorkshire Sculpture International, Wakefield, U.K.
A Seed’s a Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
As If: Alternative Histories from Then to Now, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Samaritans, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
2018
Huma Bhabha Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Carnegie International, 57th Edition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha: Other Forms of Life, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX (solo exhibition)
Revengers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
With a Trace, Salon 94, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
We Come in Peace, Roof Garden Commission, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Benefit Exhibition, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Zombies: Pay Attention, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Biennial of Painting on Landscapes, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Belgium
Taurus and the Awakener, David Kordansky Gallery, New York, NY
Keep Me Warm, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY
STEREO LOVE SEATS HOT WHEELS, Marc Straus, New York, NY
Give Up the Ghost, Baltic Triennial 13, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia
The World to Come, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
2017
Huma Bhabha Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
What is Love, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Outcasts: Women in the Wilderness, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
ISelf Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Retour Sur Mulholland Drive, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Fourth Plinth Shortlist Exhibition, The National Gallery, London UK
Home Room, The School, Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, NY
2016
Huma Bhabha Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Paper in Practice, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA
A Whisper of Where It Came From, Kemper Museum of Contemporary, Kansas City, MO; curated by Erin Dziedzic
Stranger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; curated by Rose Bouthillier
Beyond the Veil: Works from the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
Fétiche, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; curated by Peter Eleey, Thomas J. Lax, and Mia Locks
2015
Huma Bhabha Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Wages of Fear, C L E A R I N G, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Huma Bhabha, Salon 94, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
All The Worlds Futures, 56TH International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2015, Venice, Italy; curated by Okwui Enwezor
Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
A Neon Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery collaboration, Ecole Francaise d’Athens and Grounds, Athens, Greece; curated by Iwona Blazwick
America is Hard to See, Inaugural exhibition of the new Whitney, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Atopolis, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium; curated by Dirk Snauwert
Vis-a-Vis, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Michael Mahalchick
Mending Wall, The Pit, Glendale, CA; curated by Alexis Rose
Community of Influence, 30th Anniversary of Vermont Studio Center, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Chuck Webster
2014
Huma Bhabha, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Resonance(s), Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium
The Human Factor: Uses of the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Trieste, curated by Jay Heikes. Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Public Collections

The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, NH
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The David Roberts Art Foundation, UK
The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY
Sharjah Art Foundation
The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The New York Public Library, New York, NY

Literature

2005
Saltz, Jerry, Art Review, Village Voice, 30 March, page 77
Thorson, Alice, Art Reviews, The Kansas City Star, 24 April
2004
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 20 February, page E34
“Critics Pick” Art Reviews, TimeOut NY, 26 February, page 65
2002
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 19 April, page E42
1999
Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 22 October, page E41
Ivy, Angus, “Wop:ANP Antwerp, Belgium,” Zingmagazine, Vol.3 Spring/Summer, page 229-230
Husain, Marjorie, “A Taste of the Big Apple,” The Review, 26 March, page 25 (reproduction)
Ali, Amra, “Jargon, Identity and Space,” The News on Sunday, 29 March, page 32
Ali, S. Amjad, Dawn Magazine Sunday, 29 March, pages 4 and 5 (reproduction)