Hamra Abbas

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Hamra Abbas was born in Kuwait City in 1976 (to Pakistani parents). She grew up in Lahore, was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now lives between Boston and Islamabad. In a peripatetic artistic career, through the art world vehicles of residencies, long-term projects and exhibitions, Abbas has also lived and worked in Istanbul, London, New York, Sharjah and Thessaloniki.

Hamra Abbas received a BFA and MA in Visual Arts from the National College of Arts, Lahore and Meisterschueler from Universitaet der Kuenste, Berlin. Abbas is one of the five winners of the 2011 Abraaj Capital Art Prize; she was also an artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston during 2011. Abbas was awarded a Jury Prize at the Sharjah Biennial (2009) and was a finalist for the inaugural Jameel Prize (2009) awarded by the V&A, London. Her work has been included in the International Artist's Workshop of the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece (2009), International Incheon Women Artists Biennale in Korea (2009), Guangzou Triennial (2008), Istanbul Biennial (2007), Biennale of Sydney (2006) and the Cetinje Biennial (2004). Abbas' work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, ARTIUM de Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain, ifa Gallery in Berlin, Manchester Art Gallery in the UK, Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Asia Society Museum in New York, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, REDCAT, Los Angeles and the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena in the US.