Saba Hasan | |
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Born | New Delhi, India |
Occupation | Artist |
Years active | 1996–present |
Website | www |
Saba Hasan is an Indian contemporary artist who is based in Goa and New Delhi.
She has a BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi University, New Delhi and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University New York. She has also trained in art at the Ceruleum - Ecole d’arts Visuels, Lausanne [1] and art history at the University of Cambridge, UK. [2] [3]
Her work includes painting, photography, book installations, voice works and film. [4] Her works are with collectors in India, UK, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Japan, Holland, USA, Spain and France. [3]
An active artist since 1996, Hasan has participated in several art shows, exhibitions, biennale's, photo exhibitions and film festivals. Some of these include:
Year | Event | Venue |
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2023 | Cinemistica Festival (Official Selection: Art Film Category) | Corrala de Santiago, Granada, Spain [5] |
2023 | Amarcort Film Festival (Finalist: Experimental Films) | Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy [6] |
2022 | International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Official Selection: Artist Film Category, Catalog 2022) | Bideodromo, Bilbao Arte Fundazio, Bilbao, Spain [7] |
2022 | Festival of Experimental Videos & Films (Official selection) | Fisura (2022) Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico [8] |
2022 | Posthumous Dialogues With Artist FN Souza (Curator: Sabitha Satchidanandan) | The Museum of Goa (MOG), Pilerne, Goa, India [9] [10] |
2021 | National Exhibition of Women Artists (Curator: Uma Nair) | National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India [11] |
2019 | Short film The Saba Bandagi Shah Project | Official selection at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India [12] |
2019 | Short film Burnt Books 6 | Part of Cinema of Resistance collective at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India [13] |
2018 | Short film Twilight On The Lake | Official selection at the Chelsea Film Festival, New York, USA [4] Official selection at Balinale, the Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia [14] |
2017 | The Universe of Interconnected Experiences | Alliance Française, New Delhi, India [15] |
2016 | Video and Photography Show | Tenshin Okakura Gallery, Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India [16] |
2015 | Video project Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems | Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India [17] |
2014 | Video project Haqeeqat/The Truth/La Verite | Exhibition of Celeste Art Prize Finalists at Assab One, Milan, Italy [4] |
2013 | Song of a Departing Day | La Biennale di Venezia, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy [18] [19] |
2013 | The Sketchbook Project | Brooklyn Art Library, New York, USA [20] |
2013 | Sound program Audio Portraits in Space | Osso Radio Sound Festival, Lisbon, Portugal [21] |
2011 | Visual Ventures | Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India [22] |
2010 | Contemporary Drawings | Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India [22] |
2010 | Sound Installation | Oscar Kokoschka Akademie, Salzburg, Austria [17] |
2008 | Ten Creative Forces | Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Navya Art Gallery, New Delhi, India |
2007 | Art for Freedom | Bonhams Asia House Auction, London, UK [22] |
2007 | Indifferent History | Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India [22] |
2006 | Letters from Baton Rouge | Paris, France [22] |
2005 | Florence Biennale | Florence, Italy [22] |
2004 | The Written Word | Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India [22] |
1996 | Debut Solo Show | India International Centre, New Delhi, India [22] |
Some of Hasan's awards and accolades include:
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