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1 / 16 – 'Spectators of a New Dawn', installation view at Towards Gallery, Toronto, March 11 – April 17, 2021
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2 / 16 – 'Spectators of a New Dawn', installation view at Towards Gallery, Toronto, March 11 – April 17, 2021
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3 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Bazaar, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, suede, digitally woven textile, camouflage fabric, sari textile, inkjet prints on paper and canvaspaper, plastic, acrylic paint, marker, polyester, table cloth, faux leather and found fabrics, 427 × 793 cm
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4 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Malalai, Tailor Shop, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, suede, handmade Afghan embroidered fabric, shoelaces, acrylic paint, lace, gouache, marker, polyester, camouflauge fabric, iridescent paper, and found fabrics, 274 × 216 cm
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5 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Haji Saleh Zadah, Goldsmith, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, velvet, table cloth, linen, wallpaper inkjet prints on paper, iridescent paper, marker, polyester, beads, plastic, acrylic paint, suede, and found fabrics, 307 × 236 cm
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6 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Sahar, Nail Salon #1, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, suede, paper, clear plastic, inkjet prints on paper, marker, polyester, and found fabrics, 282 × 387 cm
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7 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Madam, Mariam Beauty Salon, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, suede, shoelaces, camouflauge fabric, inkjet prints on paper, marker, polyester, and found fabrics, 282 × 221 cm
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8 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Sahar, Nail Salon #2, 2020, cotton, muslin, suede, and silk, 79 × 234 cm
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9 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Khatool Muhammadzai, The Victory is Ours, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, polyester, velvet, silk, suede, camouflauge fabric, gouache, and marker, 213 × 163 cm
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10 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, The National Championship Team of Afghanistan, 2020, cotton, chiffon, muslin, suede, and faux leather, 152 × 216 cm
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11 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, The Red Rose, 2020, neon, 85 × 48 cm
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12 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Macroyan Kohna #1, 2020, chiffon, cotton, suede, silk, denim, mesh-screen textile, shoelace, hanging wires, bamboo cord, printed paper image, found fabrics, 452 × 589.3 cm
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13 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Macroyan Kohna #2, 2020, chiffon, cotton, silk, bamboo cord, shoelace, printed paper image, found fabrics, 238.8 × 195.6 cm
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14 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Bahar, Beauty Parlor (Arayeshgahe, Bahar), 2019, color ink-marker, gouache paint on fabric, cotton, chiffon, denim, printed paper, acid-eye on chiffon, found fabrics, 297.2 × 731.5 cm
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15 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Jannah/Paradise #1, 2019, gouache paint, color-ink marker, cotton, Afghan-handmade embroidery fabric, found fabrics, 304.8 × 289.6 cm
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16 / 16 – Hangama Amiri, Love with no Strings Attached, 2019, chiffon, cotton, silk, denim, hand-made weaved wool net, color-ink marker, flocking, silk-screen fabric, dye fabric, found fabrics, 340.4 × 243.9 cm

Past

‘Wandering Amidst the Colors’, Albertz Benda, New York, April 1 – May 1, 2021
‘Spectators of a New Dawn’, Towards Gallery, Toronto, March 11 – April 17, 2021

Born in 1989, Peshawer, Pakistan
Lives and works in New Haven, United States

Solo Exhibitions
2021 ‘Wandering Amidst the Colors’, Albertz Benda, New York
2021 ‘Spectators of a New Dawn’, Towards Gallery, Toronto
2020 ‘Bazaar, A Recollection of Home’, T293 Rome
2018 ‘Ocean’s Edge’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg NS
2017 ‘We Rise Again: Portraits of Afghan Women’, Lunenburg School of the Arts, NS
2014 ‘Pastoral & Industrial’, Hermes, Halifax, NS
2013 ‘Topophilia’, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS
2013 ‘At the Edge of the Shore’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, NS
2011 ‘The Wind-Up Dolls of Kabul’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA 2020, Perrotin Gallery, NY,
2020 ‘Oh To Be A Painting, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 Hold On, Hold Me, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Crying-Laughing, Friends & Neighbours Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018 Here & There, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, NS
2018 Stitch, Paint, Sculpt: Three Artist, Three Media, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, NS
2018 World of Co. Open Studio Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 Pause, a Break, The Project Space Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, Alberta
2014 This Is The Canadian Earth, Art Sales & Rental Gallery, Halifax, NS
2013 My Feminism: The NSCAD Feminist Collective Group Show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2013 Dialogue With Nature, White Rabbit Open Air Art Residency, Upper Economy, NS
2013 A little class goes along way, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS
2012 NSCAD Graduation Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2011 Forever in Flux: Feminism in Dialogue , Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
2010 SoapBox Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

Selected Screening & Exhibitions
2019 New Suns chapter 2, Paramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2019 Cybernetic Alchemy, Foreign (Material) Affairs, New Inc, New Museum, NY, NY
2016 My Motherland, Instants Video Film Festival, FRAC Marseille (Regional Contemporary Arts Fund), France
2016 My Motherland, Women Voices Now, Rolling Hills States, California
2016 My Motherland, Video Art Festival of Casablanca, Morocco
2016 My Motherland, The Art of the Burqa: Film, performance, Art & Dialogue, Pen and Brush, New York, New York
2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2015 My Motherland, The 28th Festival Les Instants Vidéo, Milan Gallery, Marseille, France
2015 My Motherland, Distant Attachments: Unsettling Contemporary Afghan Diasporic Art, City Lore Gallery, New York, USA
2015 My Motherland, Where We Now, Women Body & Space, Reel Women Hong Kong Film Festival, Hong Kong
2014 My Motherland, Inaugural Film Series, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON
2014 Nova Scotia Art Bank, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax NS
2013 5th Passion For Freedom Festival, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
2013 Original Species, (Art. Official. Selection), Creative Nova Scotia Award, Museum of Natural History, Halifax, NS
2013 Dome of Secret Desires, 7th International Arte Laguna Prize, Tese di San Cristoforo, Venice, Italy
2012 Passion For Freedom London Festival, UNIT24 Gallery, London, UK

Awards
2018 Arts Nova Scotia (Professional Development Grant)
2017 Toronto Arts Council (Individual Grant)
2016 Arts Equity Funding, Arts Nova Scotia (Creation Grant)

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