Hangama Amiri
Hangama Amiri shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award, on view at National Gallery of Canada, until February 8th, 2026 /
Selected Works
The Other Home
2024Textile installation
‘The Other Home’ (2024) is a large-scale textile installation that examines ideas of exile and migration. The artwork, composed of various vertical panels, addresses a range of emotions associated with homelessness and the process of developing new social ties and forms of belonging. By using fabric from different parts of the Middle East and South and Central Asia, she recomposes her own affective landscape and reflects the collective struggle to find a sense of home in ourselves and in the world.
Mother’s Day
2024muslin, cotton, denim, chiffon, silk, polyester, suede, gauze, and linen
150 × 98 cm (59 × 38 ⅝ inches)
Man with Vase of Tulips
2024muslin, cotton, chiffon, velvet, polyester, silk, suede, and linen
159 × 136 cm (62 ⅝ × 53 ½ inches)
New Year’s Eve
2024muslin, chiffon, coton, mesh, silk, polyester, suede, and linen
183 × 128 cm (72 × 50 ⅜ inches)
Portrait of a Woman with Denim
2023muslin, cotton, chiffon, polyester, suede, wallpaper, faux leather, vinyl paper, clear vinyl, Kodak photo, postcard, silk-chiffon, velvet
190.5 × 179 cm (75 × 70 ½ inches)
Portrait of a Woman with her Son
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, dyed fabric, velvet, chiffon, sued, embroidery pattern, silk, and found fabrics
173 × 122 cm (68 ⅛ × 48 inches)
Woman Before A Mirror
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, dyed fabric, velvet, chiffon, silk, sued, and found fabrics
185.5 × 136 cm (73 × 53 ½ inches)
Woman in a Park
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, dyed fabric, velvet, chiffon, inkjet print on silk-chiffon, silk, wallpaper, leather, embroidery patter, and found fabrics
166 × 152 cm (65 ⅜ × 59 ⅞ inches)
Man Resting in the Park
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, chiffon, denim, sued, silk, inkjet print on silk-chiffon, and found fabrics
106.7 × 152.5 cm (42 × 60 inches)
Afghan-Gelghoza
2023muslin, suede, polyester, silk, clear vinyl, and inkjet print on chiffon
106.7 × 78.7 cm (42 × 31 inches)
Still-Life with Chair
2023muslin, cotton, polyester, suede, chiffon, leather, vinyl fabric, and handmade embroidered Persian fabric
162.5 × 125.7 cm (64 × 49 ½ inches)
Instant Henna
2023muslin, cotton, chiffon, polyester, and denim
91.44 × 71.12 cm (36 × 28 inches)
Still-Life with Travel Luggage
2023muslin, cotton, polyester, silk, velvet, suede, leather, and chiffon
187.5 × 158.75 cm (73 ⅞ × 62 ½ inches)
Afghan-Ceramic
2023muslin, leather, cotton, chiffon, denim, and inkjet-print on silk-chiffon
107.9 × 91.5 cm (42 ½ × 36 inches)
Departure
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, clear vinyl, iridescent paper, faux leather, iridiscent fabric, chiffon, inkjet silk print and found fabric
167.64 × 182.88 cm (66 × 72 inches)
Azizi Tailor Shop
2022muslin, cotton, leather, suede, clear plastic, polyester, silk, velvet, faux leather, wool, and found fabric
304.80 × 243.84 cm (120 × 96 inches)
Brides Beauty Parlor #1
2022muslin, cotton, chiffon, polyester, leather, suede, iridescent paper and found fabric
121.92 × 213.36 cm (48 × 84 inches)
New Born Baby Girls
2022muslim, cotton, polyester, chiffon, suede, leather, faux leather, color pencil on fabric, shoe lace, clear vinyl and found fabric
213.36 × 304.80 cm (84 × 120 inches)
Afghan Dry Fruit
2022muslim, cotton, inkjet silk print and leather
106.68 × 106.68 × 121.92 cm (42 × 42 × 48 inches)
Arayeshgah-e Shahre Aroos/Brides Beauty Parlor
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, velvet, chiffon, silk, leather, suede, ink jet silk print, paper, postcard, iridescent paper, clear vinyl, denim and found fabric
213.36 × 548.64 cm (84 × 216 inches)
Portrait of a Woman in White Salwar Kameez
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, dyed fabric, velvet, chiffon, sued, leather, mesh-fabric, embroidery pattern, inkjet print on silk-chiffon, silk, and found fabrics
183 × 132 cm (72 × 52 inches)
Eid
2022muslin, cotton, polyester, dyed fabric, velvet, chiffon, wallpaper, nylon tulle, inkjet-print, inkjet print on silk-chiffon, sued, paper, silk, and found fabrics
56 × 42 inches (142.24 × 106.68 cm)
The Wonders of the Night
2021chiffon, muslin, cotton, polyester, silk, net mesh, suede, velvet, and found fabric
310 × 272 cm (122 × 107 inches)
Self-portrait with Tooti Parrot
2021chiffon, muslin, cotton, polyester, silk, net mesh, suede, colour pencil, velvet, and found fabric
148.6 × 113 cm (58 ½ × 44 ½ inches)
Wounded Deer
2021chiffon, muslin, cotton, polyester, silk, inkjet print on chiffon, suede, color pencil, and found fabric
248.9 × 190.5 cm (98 × 75 inches)
Journalist
2021muslin, cotton, polyester, chiffon, inkjet print on chiffon, velvet, and faux suede
101.6 × 150 cm (40 × 59 inches)
Collective Objects
2021chiffon, muslin, cotton, polyester, velvet, postcard, faux leather, inkjet print on chiffon, paper, clear vinyl and found fabric
203 × 350.5 cm (79 ⅞ × 138 inches)
Night Visit
2021chiffon, muslin, cotton, suede, printed textiles, velvet, satin, polyester, chiffon, rope, acrylic and marker on fabric / chiffon, mussolina, cotone, pelle scamosciata, tessuti stampati, velluto, satin, poliestere, corda, acrilico ed evidenziatore su tessuto
223.5 × 200.7 cm
Bazaar
2020cotton, 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 (168 ⅛ × 312 ¼ inches)
Sahar, Nail Salon #1
2020cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, suede, paper, clear plastic, inkjet prints on paper, marker, polyester, and found fabrics
282 × 387 cm (111 × 152 ⅜ inches)
Malalai, Tailor Shop
2020cotton, 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 (107 ⅞ × 85 inches)
Haji Saleh Zadah, Goldsmith
2020cotton, 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 (120 ⅞ × 92 ⅞ inches)
The Red Rose
2020neon
85 × 48 cm (33 ½ × 18 ⅞ inches)
Sahar, Nail Salon and Eyelash Extensions #3
2020chiffon, acrylic paint, and inkjet print on silk
311 × 217 cm (122 ½ × 85 ⅜ inches)
Madam, Mariam Beauty Salon
2020cotton, chiffon, muslin, silk, suede, shoelaces, camouflauge fabric, inkjet prints on paper, marker, polyester, and found fabrics
282 × 221 cm (111 × 87 inches)
Sahar, Nail Salon #2
2020cotton, muslin, suede, and silk
79 × 234 cm (31 ⅛ × 92 ⅛ inches)
The National Championship Team of Afghanistan
2020cotton, chiffon, muslin, suede, and faux leather
152 × 216 cm (59 ⅞ × 85 inches)
Video
Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
CV
2020
MFA Yale School of Art, New Haven, United States
2012
BFA Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Canada
2005
BFA Olimov College of Art, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
2025
‘À travers les objets’, Hotel de Tingry, Ménerbes
‘Elliptical Lineages’, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
‘gap gap gap/ گپ گپ گپ’, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
‘Befarmā / After You’, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles
‘Parting’, Esker Foundation, Canada
2024
‘Stich, Thread, Grid: Weaving Everyday Objects’, LongHouse Reserve, New York
‘Reminiscences II’, T293, Rome
‘Circle of Friends’, Cooper Cole, Toronto
‘A Homage To Home’, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
2023
‘Jamila, Henna’ Further Down the Line, Liverpool, Uk
‘A Homage to Home’, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2022
‘Reminiscences’ Union Pacific, London
‘Henna Night/Shabe Kheena’, David B. Smith, Denver, Colorado
2021
‘Mirrors and Faces’, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
‘Wandering Amidst the Colors’, Albertz Benda, New York
‘Spectators of a New Dawn’, Towards Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2020
‘Bazaar, A Recollection of Home’, T293 Rome
2018
‘Ocean’s Edge’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, Canada
2017
‘We Rise Again: Portraits of Afghan Women’, Lunenburg School of the Arts, Canada
2014
‘Pastoral & Industrial’, Hermes, Halifax, Canada
2013
‘Topophilia’, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, Canada
‘At the Edge of the Shore’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, Canada
2011
‘The Wind-Up Dolls of Kabul’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2026
‘Table Manners’,Barbati Gallery, Palazzo Lezze, Venice
‘Empire of Light: Visions and Voices of Afghanistan’, Qatar Museums
2025
‘Sobey Art Award exhibition’, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
‘Familiar Texture: The Fibers of Childhood and Home’, Shoboygan, Wisconsin
‘GATHERING’, COOPER COLE, Toronto
‘I thought, I had lost half a soul here’, Meyer Rigger, Berlin
2024
‘Precarious Joys’, Toronto Biennial 2024
‘of intimacy and quietude’, co-curated with Lincoln Dexter, Sid Motion Gallery, London
‘Can the Afghan Speak?’, Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen, Norway 2023 Botany of Desire, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn
‘Silent Hands, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Memory is the Seamstress’, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE Plug In ICA Biennial, Winnipeg, Canada
‘Piecework’, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
‘Rumi’, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto”Thinking Historically in the Present”, Sharjah Biennial 15, Sharjah, UAE Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today, The Moody Centre for the Arts, Houston2023
2023
‘MEMORY IS THE SEAMSTRESS’, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
‘Distance Between Homes’, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
‘Thinking Historically in the Present’, Sharjah Biennale 15, United Arab Emirates
2022
‘Pop South Asia: Artistic Explorations in the Popular’, Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Shuwaiheen, United Arab Emirates
Arts Area, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
‘Songs of Spring’, Aout Gallery, Beirut
2021
‘Qatra Qatra (Drop by Drop)’, Gallerie delle Prigioni, Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso
‘Progetto Genesi. Arte e Diritti Umani’, Collezione Panza, Associazione Genesi, Italy
‘Everything Has Its Place’, Sevil Dolmacı Art Gallery, Istanbul
‘Hospitalet’, Danviken Hospital, Stockholm
‘THIS IS AMERICA’, Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany
‘Alphabetic Image’, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
‘Stockholm Sessions’, Carl Kostyal Gallery, Stockholm
2020
Yale Painting and Printmaking MFA, Perrotin Gallery, New York
‘Oh To Be A Painting’, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston
2019
‘Hold On, Hold Me’, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York
2018
‘Crying-Laughing’, Friends & Neighbours Gallery, Montreal, Canada
‘Here & There’, Studio Lab Gallery, New Glasgow, Canada
‘Stitch, Paint, Sculpt: Three Artist, Three Media’, Laurie Swim Gallery, Lunenburg, Canada
‘World of Co.’ Open Studio Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria
2017
‘Pause, a Break’, The Project Space Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2014
‘This Is The Canadian Earth’, Art Sales & Rental Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2013
‘My Feminism: The NSCAD Feminist Collective Group Show’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
‘Dialogue With Nature’, White Rabbit Open Air Art Residency, Upper Economy, Canada
‘A little class goes along way’, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2012
‘NSCAD Graduation Exhibition’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2011
‘Forever in Flux: Feminism in Dialogue’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2010
‘SoapBox Exhibition’, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada