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Hamra Abbas |
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Hamra has a versatile practice, straddling a range of media. 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.
Hamra Abbas has been awarded the Jury prize at the Sharjah Biennial 9 : Provisions for the Future. She was picked by Art Asia Pacific magazine as their Artist to Watch for 2009. She is also a finalist for the inaugural Jameel prize, in connection with which she will be showing at the V&A Museum in London in summer 2009. She has two new works, including a large installation piece showing at the Sharjah Biennial (2009). Her work will also be included in the Thessaloniki Biennial (2009) and the 2009 International Incheon Women Artists Biennale, Korea. Her work was included in the 2008 Guangzou Triennial, the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007), the 2006 Biennale of Sydney, and the Cetinje Biennial, 2004. Her work has been exhibited galleries including at ARTIUM, Vittoria, Spain, ifa Gallery, Berlin and the Arc Gallery, Chicago. She has been awarded residencies and scholarships by institutions such as Art Omi, Vermont Studio Center, the Triangle Arts Trust 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. Hamra Abbas lives and works between Boston and Islamabad.
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