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Solo Exhibitions
| 2015 | But can you show this in Pakistan? PILOT, Istanbul Misprints, Canvas Gallery, Karachi |
| 2014 | Kaaba Picture as a Misprint, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai |
| 2013 | Hamra Abbas: Wall Hanging, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
| 2012 | IDOLS, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai City and the Everyday, PILOT, Istanbul Hamra Abbas, CANVAS, Karachi |
| 2011 | Cities, Green Cardamom, London |
| 2010 | Cityscapes, OUTLET Independent Art Space, Istanbul |
| 2009 | Video Art by Hamra Abbas, Babusch Project Space, Berlin |
| 2008 | Adventures of the Woman in Black, Green Cardamom, London New works by Hamra Abbas, NCA Gallery, Rawalpindi, Pakistan God Grows on Trees, Schultz Contemporary, Berlin Hamra Abbas, Zahoor-al-Akhlaq Gallery, NCA, Lahore |
| 2006 | Hamra Abbas, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung Galerie, Berlin Lessons on Love, Rohtas 2, Lahore |
Group Exhibitions
| 2016 | do-it, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah |
| 2015 | Istanbul. Passion, Joy, Fury, MAXXI, Rome Globale: Global Control And Censorship, ZKM | Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe ALL ABOUT THESE… LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Gallery on the move, Cologne What is Home? Pump House Gallery, London And Nothing but the Truth: Parrhesia II, KOEL Gallery, Karachi The Body And Other Small Tales, Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
| 2014 | KOCHI-MUZIRIS BIENNALE 2014, Whorled Explorations, Kochi Changwon Sculpture Biennial 2014 - The Shade of the Moon, Changwon, South Korea The Importance of Staying Quiet, Yallay Gallery, Hong Kong Censorship, The 7th Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul ALL ABOUT THESE… LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, Soma Mexico, Mexico City LIEBE / LOVE, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| 2013 | The 2013 deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln Signs Taken in Wonder, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover ECHOES: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Signs Taken in Wonder, MAK, Vienna |
| 2012 | The Collectors Show: Chimera, Singapore Art Museum |
| 2011 | Medi(t)ation – 2011 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Home Spun, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon Everyday Miracles (Extended), Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, CA Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels The Power of Doubt, PhotoEspagna 2011, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid | Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Dubai |
| 2010 | The Rising Tide: New Directions in Art from Pakistan 1990-2010, Mohatta Palace Museum, Karachi UNERWARTET/UNEXPECTED, Kunst Museum Bochum, Germany ResembleReassemble, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 2009 | Aluminium, 4th International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Baku, Azerbaijan 2nd International Incheon Woman Artists’ Biennale, S. Korea Everyday Miracles (Extended), Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, CA Everyday Miracles (Extended), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA Hanging Fire, Asia Society Museum, New York Read, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Mashq, Green Cardamom, London Jameel Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, London International Artists’ Workshop, PRAXIS: Art in Times of Uncertainty, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale Anomalies, Rossi & Rossi, London Starring the Artist, Indus Valley School Gallery, Karachi 9th Sharjah Biennale – Provisions for the Future, UAE |
| 2008 | Recently Seen and Admired, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin The Audience and the Eavesdropper: New Art From India and Pakistan, Phillips de Pury & Company, London Drawn From Life, Green Cardamom, London Buffaloes in Combat, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto Farewell to Post-Colonialism, 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Crossroads, Elementa Art Gallery, UAE In-Situ, Shake Before Use, ARTIUM de Alava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
| 2007 | Not Only Possible But Also Necessary-Optimism In The Age Of Global War, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Urban Myths and Modern Fables, UTS Gallery, Sydney Inaugural show, National Art Gallery, Islamabad Contemporary Art from Pakistan, Thomas Erben, NYC Politics of Fear, Albion gallery, London |
| 2006 | Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Beyond the Page, Asia House, London and Manchester Art Gallery Open day, Vasl International Artists Workshop, Gadani |
| 2005 | Zeitsprünge Raumfolgen, ifa Galerie, Berlin, Stuttgart Full House, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen Meisterschueler Prize Winners of UdK, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin KOVIDEO 1st Durban Video Festival, Mumbai Beyond Borders, Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai |
| 2004 | Meisterschueler Prize Exhibition, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin, Berlin Aarpaar 3, Lahore | Karachi | Mumbai Miniature from Pakistan, Fukuoka Museum of Asian Art, Fukuoka Open Studios, Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, NY 8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Guetersloh FreiRäume, A Project by FreiStil e.V., Berlin Love It or Leave It, 5th Cetinje Biennial, Cetinje Creative Insecurity, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Meisterschueler Exhibition, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin Along the X-Axis: Digital Art From India and Pakistan, New Delhi Playing with a Loaded Gun, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
| 2003 | Junger Westen 2003, Kunsthalle Rechlinghausen, Rechlinghausen |
Residencies/Awards/Scholarships
| 2016 | Artist-in-Residence, The Marble House Project, Dorset, VT |
| 2015 | Artist-in-Residence, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore |
| 2011 | Abraaj Capital Art Prize Winner 2011 |
| 2010 | Traingle Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Jury Prize, Sharjah Biennial 9 – Provisions for the Future |
| 2006 | Residency, Gasworks, V&A Museum and Green Cardamom, London |
| 2005 | Scholarship, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, Berlin Residence scholarship, Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, Schoeppingen |
| 2004 | Meisterschueler Prize, Universitaet der Kuenste (UdK) Berlin Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, New York 8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Guetersloh |
| 2003 | Fellowship Award, artist-in-residence, Vermont Studio Center, USA DAAD Scholarship, Germany |