Huma Bhabha

Born:
1962
Residence:
Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Nationality:
Pakistani
Trust:
APT New York
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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Aspen, Minneapolis, London, Liverpool, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

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  • In her essay “The Arts and Crafts Movement in America,” tracing the spread of the international movement from Europe to the U.S., Monica Obniski's draws connections between the movement’s emergence and the birth of industrialization in England, outlining the socialist leanings, artistic breakthroughs, and global impact on associated art communities over the years.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • London museum embraces proposals for the works on this year’s plinth as opportunity to engage the public

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  • Frieze New York has announced the sixth edition of this international art fair held at Randall’s Island Park from May 5–7, 2017.

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  • Huma Bhabha’s humanoid sculpture In the Shadow of the Sun (2016), displayed on a low white plinth in a brightly lit room in London’s Stephen Friedman Gallery, stares at the viewer with inscrutable, smudged black eyes.

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  • Art Basel Miami Beach—or prom for the art world, if that prom was at the high school in Less Than Zero—is coming, and with it the many satellite fairs and supplemental programming that set South Beach alight in early December each year.

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  • Sometimes, things can get intense—for better or worse. We put 5 of our favorite creative couples on the therapist's couch.

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  • Pola Magnetyczne revisits a 1977 exhibition by Wiktor Gutt (b.1949) and Waldemar Raniszewski (1947–2005), who collaborated closely throughout the early ’70s, exploring performance and photography to develop extra-verbal methods of communication.

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  • Now in its sixth year, Sculpture in the City, the City of London’s annual public art programme, launches tomorrow with the first ever screening of Petroc Sesti’s digital piece Solar | Relay – one of 17 works of art in the open-air sculpture take-over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in the City.

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  • This week MoMA PS1 presents "Greater New York," a sprawling, building-wide exhibition that takes place every five years and has traditionally featured work by New York's most prominent emerging artists.

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  • Yes! After months and months of speculation, prayers, and rumors, the Venice Biennale has released the artist list for its 56th edition, “All the World’s Futures,” which is being curated by Okwui Enwezor.

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  • In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes an incredible collection of photographs by Edward Steichen at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Untitled Apogee by Stephanie Leitch at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, melancholic memories of artist Maria Ader at Vyner Street Gallery, one of the pillars of Hamburg’s cultural life, Gunter Reski, exhibited in The Falckenberg Collection at Deichtorhallen, and Karel’s Choice. Looking Back at Contemporary Art at De Hallen in Haarlem, Netherlands, where Karel Schampers bids farewell to the Frans Hals Museum with this curatorial wrap-up of pieces acquired under his directorship.

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  • The exhibition “Rich Pickings” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg is devoted to the display of wealth and the self-presentation practices

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  • The exhibition “Rich Pickings” at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg is devoted to the display of wealth and the self-presentation practices

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  • The occult anxiety begins with Jesse Greenberg’s Brick Birth I, a polyurethane magic-show effigy of a shamanistic cave vulva sitting on a low, icy

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  • In a world laid bare to technological scrutiny, a retreat to the psychological dark side seems like a smart idea, and that’s where “New Hells”,

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  • On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2014, the gallery VeneKlasen/Werner presents a solo show with works by the artist Huma Bhabha. T

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  • The chaos of Art Basel Miami Beach is bigger than ever before, with even more satellite fairs, special projects, artist talks and museum openings. As if the fairs themselves weren’t enough to keep you busy, there are also some fantastic not to be missed installations outside of the walls of the convention center. Make sure to get plenty of sleep, drink plenty of liquids, pack the most comfortable shoes, and have a driver on hand...

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  • September is facing no dearth of substance for art aficionados across the country. With the 8th Gwangju Biennale accelerating to speed

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  • Name: Julika Rudelius
 City/Neighborhood: Greenpoint, Brooklyn Current Exhibition: “Rituals of Capitalism” at Leo Koenig Inc

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  • What exactly do we call Portugal Arte, the month-long show of contemporary art in and around Lisbon that opened this past weekend?

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  • In Huma Bhabha's sculpture My Skull Is Too Small (2009), featured in this spring's Whitney Biennial, two figures are poised at either end of a narrow

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  • Pakistani-born artist Huma Bhabha is known for her figurative, totemic sculptures created from found and discarded materials. “Unnatural Histories,” Bhabha’s first solo museum show in New York, featured 30 of her recent sculptures, along with a dozen collage-drawings, displayed across the third floor of MoMA PS1.

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  • For five days in August a big sculpture touched down on an island in Times Square — a 26-foot-tall representation of a sailor bending over a woman

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  • An opening at The Hole, the intriguing new space run by former Deitch directors Kathy Grayson and Meghan Coleman, is always an event.

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  • ‘Singular Visions,” the temporary display of a sliver of the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection, is a spot-on experiment in close looking.

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  • At her first solo show in New York, in 2004, Huma Bhabha showed sculptures and photographs that a New York Times critic championed

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  • "Huma Bhaba" isn't one of those absurdist, implied-onomatopoetic titles that are in vogue right now; it's the Pakistan-born, New York-based artist's

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  • In Passages in Modern Sculpture (1977), a book that traced the dissolution of traditional three-dimensional composition from Rodin’s Gates of Hell

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BIOGRAPHY
Huma Bhabha was born in 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan. She now lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Bhabha is a sculptor first and foremost. Her poetic assemblages are born out of tactile materials such as Styrofoam, air-dried clay, wire, cork and scraps of construction material. Often referred to as ‘post-apocalyptic' in their aesthetic, these works combine figuration with abstract architectural elements and a sense of landscape. Informed by a vast array of cultural references, from the cinematography of 1979 sci-fi classic "Stalker" to the architecture of Cambodia's ancient temples at Angkor Wat, Bhabha's work transcends a singular time and place. Instead, these strands come together in a highly personal exploration of what the artist describes as the ‘eternal concerns' found across all cultures: war, colonialism, displacement and memories of home.
 
Bhabha's pastel works on paper are largely comprised of portraits and articulate the artist's painterly skill. Picasso-esque in form, these works blend figuration with a Modernist abstraction, producing a vibrant, enchanting effect. In her re-worked photographs, taken by Bhabha in her native Karachi in southern Pakistan, the artist undermines the documentary tradition with a darker, personal and often fantastical dimension.
 
Notable solo exhibitions include; ‘Unnatural Histories' at P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Centre, New York, USA (2012-2013); ‘Huma Bhabha: Players', Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia Province, Italy (2012); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA (2011); Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Germany (2011); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2010); ‘New Work', Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2009) and ‘Emerging Artist Award Exhibition', The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA (2008).
 
Recent group exhibitions include; ‘America is Hard to See', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); ‘56th International Art Exhibition - All the World's Futures', Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2015); ‘LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W', Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York, USA (2013); ‘A Different Kind of Order', The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, USA (2013); ‘Land Marks', curated by Doug Eklund and Anne Strauss The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (2013); ‘Oppenheimer@20: A 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Nerman Museum's Oppenheimer Collection', Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA (2012-2013); ‘To Hope, To Tremble, To Live: Modern and Contemporary Works from the David Roberts Collection', The Hepworth- Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK (2012-2013); ‘Theatre of the World', Museum of Old and New Art, ‘Hobart', Tazmania (2012); ‘Statuesque', Nasher Sculptural Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (2011); ‘Contemporary Galleries: 1980 - Now', MOMA, New York, USA (2011); ‘Whitney Biennial', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2010); ‘Statuesque', City Hall Park, New York, USA (2010); ‘7th Gwangju Biennale', Gwangju, South Korea; curated by Okwui Enwezor (2008); ‘After-Nature', The New Museum, New York, USA (2008) and ‘USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery', Royal Academy of Arts, London, England (2006).
 
Bhabha's works are included in prominent collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; New York Public Library, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; Saatchi Gallery, London; The David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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