Saba Hasan

Saba Hasan
Hasan in 2020
Born	New Delhi, India
Occupation	Artist
Years active	1996–present
Website	www.sabahasan.com

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]

Saba's most recent show was a solo exhibition of her book sculptures and multimedia works at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Shows and exhibitions

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
2026	Jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi: Solo Exhibition of Book Sculptures and Multimedia Works [8]	Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India [9]
2024	FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid (Official Selection: Micro Movies Category)	mk2 Cine Paz & Sala Cátedra Mayor, Madrid, Spain (Winner: Best Screenplay for 'Death Will Come Like A Shadow') [10]
2023	Cinemistica Festival (Official Selection: Art Film Category)	Corrala de Santiago, Granada, Spain [11]
2023	Amarcort Film Festival (Finalist: Experimental Films)	Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy [12]
2022	International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Official Selection: Artist Film Category, Catalog 2022)	Bideodromo, Bilbao Arte Fundazio, Bilbao, Spain [13]
2022	Festival of Experimental Videos & Films (Official selection)	Fisura (2022) Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico [14]
2022	Posthumous Dialogues With Artist FN Souza (Curator: Sabitha Satchidanandan)	The Museum of Goa (MOG), Pilerne, Goa, India [15] [16]
2021	National Exhibition of Women Artists (Curator: Uma Nair)	National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India [17]
2019	Short film The Saba Bandagi Shah Project	Official selection at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India [18]
2019	Short film Burnt Books 6	Part of Cinema of Resistance collective at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India [19]
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 [20]
2017	The Universe of Interconnected Experiences	Alliance Française, New Delhi, India [21]
2016	Video and Photography Show	Tenshin Okakura Gallery, Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India [22]
2015	Video project Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems	Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India [23]
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 [24] [25]
2013	The Sketchbook Project	Brooklyn Art Library, New York, USA [26]
2013	Sound program Audio Portraits in Space	Osso Radio Sound Festival, Lisbon, Portugal [27]
2011	Visual Ventures	Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India [28]
2010	Contemporary Drawings	Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India [28]
2010	Sound Installation	Oscar Kokoschka Akademie, Salzburg, Austria [23]
2008	Ten Creative Forces	Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Navya Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore, India [28]
2007	Art for Freedom	Bonhams Asia House Auction, London, UK [28]
2007	Indifferent History	Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India [28]
2006	Letters from Baton Rouge	Paris, France [28]
2005	Florence Biennale	Florence, Italy [28]
2004	The Written Word	Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India [28]
1996	Debut Solo Show	India International Centre, New Delhi, India [28]

Awards and recognition

Some of Hasan's awards and accolades include:

• 2024: FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid, Spain ^[29]
• 2023: Vienna International Film Awards, Austria ^[30]
• 2023: Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Germany ^[31]
• 2022: Indo-French International Film Festival, Pondicherry, India ^[32]
• 2022: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA ^{[33] [34]}
• 2014: MIFA: Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia ^[35]
• 2014: Celeste Contemporary Art Prize Nomination, Milan, Italy ^[4]
• 2008: RPG Art Residency, Madh Island, India ^[36]
• 2007: Award for Painting, Raza Foundation, India ^[37]
• 2006: Residency in Paris, Government of France ^[38]
• 2002: Residency, George Keyt Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka ^[36]
• 1998: Ceruleum : Ecole D’Arts Visuels - Academie, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 1986: Fellowship in Culture Studies, Syracuse University, New York, USA

Bibliography

• Saba Hasan : undeciphered fates, Barefoot publishers, New York
• The Indian Art Collectors Handbook by Dr Alka Pande, India
• Ten Creative Forces by Keshav Malik, Ravi Kumar Publishers, Paris
• International Contemporary Artists by Olga Antoniadou,
• Islamic Art, Past and Modern by Nuzhat Kazmi, Roli Books
• Samvaya published by the Raza Foundation, India
• Hidden Art Treasures, International Art, United Kingdom

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