Huma Bhabha

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Huma Bhabha (born 1962 in Karachi , Pakistan ) is a Pakistani-American sculptor , object artist, draftsman and photographer . She is mainly known for her sculptures , which often remind the viewer of extraterrestrial beings , but also for the use of found materials, found objects and building materials.

Life

Huma Bhabha was born in 1962 as the daughter of a Pakistani businessman and an artist. Her mother's work aroused her interest in drawing and painting at an early age. Bhabha came to the United States in 1981 to attend art school. In 1985, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Then she went back to Pakistan for two years, where she mainly occupied herself with drawing and painting. On her return she attended Columbia University , which she graduated with a Master of Arts in 1989. Since 2008 she has been teaching first in the printing / painting department , then in the sculpture department at the Yale University School of Art in New Haven . Huma Bhaba has been married to the artist Jason Fox since 1990. She lives and works in Poughkeepsie , New York State .

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Huma Bhabha is best known for its sculptures. After studying painting at the RISD, she began to work in sculpture in her final year . Bhabha mainly depicts human figures. Her sculptures are mainly characterized by the fact that she uses a wide variety of simple materials (e.g. clay, styrofoam, etc.), found objects such as animal bones and also everyday objects and building materials, and her figures are mostly not as coherent bodies can be reproduced. She rarely uses classic materials such as bronze. Her mostly larger-than-life figures seem detached from the body as a whole and it seems as if the figure has fallen apart. Her finished sculptures give the impression that the process of sculpting has not yet been completed, for example by using materials that are used to pour out forms, but do not lead the process to the end. This makes her figures seem fragile - Bhabha wants to express the fragile nature of the human body. She makes her sculptures with all-round visibility, her figurative sculptures, which show both men and women, contain political or religious references; Bhabha plays with quotes and trends from the history of art. Bhabha's figures are often reminiscent of aliens. She became interested in science fiction at an early age and was inspired by films such as the Alien series and Star Trek . For her, science fiction reflects the current state of the world, the future and the hope of people. After having familiarized herself with the techniques of the filmmakers, who often use African masks as models for the characters, her first works consisted of adaptations of various African masks, with which she was unsuccessful. Her breakthrough came after she decided during the creation of Centaur that she could declare her work to be finished when she wanted - also during the actual creation process - and thus offer the viewer further opportunities to access her works.

Her greatest work to date is And in the track of a hundred thousand years, out of the heart of dust Hope sprang again, like greenness (2007). The title corresponds to a quote from the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam .

In addition to sculpture, Bhabha also devotes himself to photography and drawing. Most of her photographs are taken on her annual trips to Pakistan. After her return, she then works on the photos as mixed media art with ink , watercolors or chalk . After she had already dealt with pastel painting during her student days , she began to devote herself to this medium again a few years ago. Her main motif there is the representation of the human figure, especially the drawing of heads.

In 2013, the American Academy in Berlin awarded Bhabha the Berlin Prize, which includes a scholarship holder with a stay in Berlin. She used her time at the Academy to continue studying the technique of bronze casting .

Exhibitions (selection)

The first exhibition of her sculptures took place in 1993.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1997: Cokkie Snoei (gallery), Rotterdam
  • 1998: AN Gallery, Karachi
  • 2008: Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition , Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield , USA
  • 2011: Huma Bhabha Aspen Art Museum, Aspen , USA
  • 2012: Players , Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia , Italy
  • 2013: Unnatural Histories , MoMA PS1 , New York, USA
  • 2015: Huma Bhabha, Salon94 Bowery & Freemans, New York, USA

Group exhibitions

Awards

Works (selection)

  • 2000, Centaur
  • 2007, The Orientalist
  • 2005, Sleeper
  • 2006, Man of No Importance
  • 2007, And in the track of a hundred thousand years, out of the heart of dust Hope sprang again, like greenness
  • 2009, 1,000

Collections

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Steel Stillman, Huma Bhabha ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Art in America, November 11, 2010, accessed December 16, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artinamericamagazine.com
  2. ^ Profile on the Yale University School of Art website, accessed December 16, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Regina Höfer: Bhabha, Huma. In: Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL) , KG Saur Berlin / Boston 2019, (accessed via de Gruyter Online)
  4. ↑ Profile on: saatchigallery.com, accessed December 16, 2015.
  5. ↑ Berlin Prize ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at: americanacademy.de, accessed on December 24, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanacademy.de
  6. ↑ Aldrich Award Goes to Sculptor Huma Bhabha , on: blouinartinfo.com from March 6, 2008
  7. ^ Huma Bhabha in the Whitney Museum of American Art, accessed December 30, 2015
  8. ↑ Huma Bhabha in MoMA, accessed December 30, 2015
  9. ↑ Huma Bhabha in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accessed December 30, 2015
  10. ↑ Huma Bhabha at Yale University Art Gallery , accessed December 30, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bhabha, huma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani-American sculptor, draftsman and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi , Pakistan