Huma Bhabha
Biography
Born 1962, Karachi, Pakistan
Lives Poughkeepsie, NY
Education
1989
Columbia University, New York, NY; MFA
1985
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; BFA
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2012
Huma Bhabha: Players, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emila, Italy
Huma Bhabha, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2011
Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Germany
Huma Bhabha, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, April 1 - May 7
Huma Bhabha, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
2010
Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Salon 94, New York, NY
2009
Huma Bhabha: New Work, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sept. 5-October 7
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2008
Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, September 14-February 2, 2009
2007
Huma Bhabha, Salon 94, New York, NY, September 12-October 26
Huma Bhabha, Salon 94 Freeman’s, New York, NY, September 12-October 26
Huma Bhabha: Karachi Prints 2007, ATM Gallery, New York, NY, September 6-October 13
Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2006
Degraded, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Huma Bhabha, ATM Gallery, New York, NY, February 17-March 18
2004
Huma Bhabha, ATM Gallery, New York, NY, February
1998
A.N. Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
1997
Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1993
Sculptures, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Two-Person Exhibitions
2009
Atlas Mountains: Jason Fox and Huma Bhabha, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY March 14 - April 18
2008
Warlord, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY, June 14-July 26
2007
Huma Bhabha and Matthew Day Jackson: Sculptures and New Print Editions, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, November 16, 2007 - January 12, 2008
2004
Versus: Jason Fox & Huma Bhabha, Arena Mexico Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico, November
2002
Huma Bhabha & Kevin Cooley, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, November 22-December 23
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Contemporary Galleries: 1980 - Now, MOMA, New York, NY
Hunters and Gatherers: The Art of Assemblage, S | 2, New York, NY; curated by Lisa
Dennison
The Influentials, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Amy Smith Stewart
Free Soil, CANADA, New York, NY
Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY
Lustwarande ’11-Raw, Fundament Foundation, Park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, The
Netherlands; curated by Chris Driessen
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
2010
Statuesque, Nasher Sculptural Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Nicholas Baume, Public Art Fund
La Route de la Soie, Tri Postal, Lille, France; curated by the Saatchi Gallery and lille3000
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art (SMAK), Ghent, Belgium
Art on Paper 2010, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
the hybrid fuels…, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany; curated by Dr.
Ingrid Burgbacher-Krupka.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Yor
Statuesque, City Hall Park, curated by Public Art Fund, New York, NY
2009
Huma Bhabha, Jason Fox, Baker Overstreet, Aurel Schmidt, Galleria Paolo Curti /
Annamaria Gambuzzi& Co., Milan, Italy (curated by Kineko Ivic)
Slough curated by Steve DiBenedetto, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, May 28- July 24
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Bob Nickas
Sites, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, curated by Carter Foster
2008
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea, Sept. 5 - Nov. 9; curated by Okwui Enwezo
East Moves West, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
South Asian Imaginaries South Asian Imaginaries conference and Critical Studio: Dialogue with South Asian Artists, Teacher's College, Columbia University, New York, NY
After Nature, The New Museum, New York, NY, July 7 - October 5
Group Show: Jason Fox, Huma Bhabha, & Andrea Ethier, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, April 10-May 10
Warlord, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY June 14 - July 26
Disarming Matter, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY, April 3-May 10
Nina in Position, Artist Space, New York, NY, January 25-March 29
2007
Collezione Maramotti, Inaugural Exhibition, Reggio Emilia, Italy; curated by Mario Diacono, opening September 29
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; curated by Bob Nickas, September-February 3
Trinchera, Museo Raul Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico; curated by Emanuel Tovar
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Galleria Glance, Torino, Italy, June 22-July 29
Out of Nothing, 4Walls Fine Art, Austin, TX; curated by Daniel Heimbinder, September 8-October 20
2006
USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K. (catalogue), October 6-November 4, State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia, October 24-January 13, 2008
Remember Who You Are, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, September 7-September 30
Clarissa Dalrymple’s Exhibition of Young Artists to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, February 16-February 25
ATMArtFair, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
Exquisite Corpse (Cadavre Exquis), Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Bob Nickas and Mitchell Algus, February 20-March 18
Drawing III (Selected), g-module, Paris, France, May 18-July 1
Johnson County Community College Museum, Kansas City, KS
2005
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (catalogue), March 13-September 26
Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Mystic Truths, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Simon Watson, June 3-July 9
Drunk Vs Stoned 2, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY; curated by Elysia Borowy, August 4-September 7
2004
Beat the Reaper, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA; curated by Joe Bradley, May 7-29
Grass and Honey, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY; curated by David Shaw, May
Radicales Libres, Central de Arte en WTC, Guadalajara, Mexico; curated by Ruben Mendez
2002
2002 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, January 4
Guide to Trust 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; curated by ANP, February 9-April 21
The Empire Strikes Back, ATM Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Cannon Hudson & Jason Fox, March-April 28
2001
Wet, Louise Ross Gallery, New York, NY, June 5-July 27
Running in Flip-Flops, Feature, New York, NY, June 21-July 27
2000
Back to Nature, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, July 7-August 4
Grok Terence McKenna Dead, Feature, New York, NY, July-September 9
Not a. Lear, Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent, Belgium, March 2001; curated by ANP, Gracie Mansion, New York, NY, September 12-October 20, 2001, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2-21, 2001, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July, and Art Process, Paris, France, December
ANP City Projekts, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 26-April 23
1999
LOAF, Baumgartner Galleries, New York, NY; curated by Steve DiBenedetto
Trippy World, Baron Boisante Gallery, New York, NY
M du B, F, H & G, Montreal, Canada
1998
YOYOGAGA, Feature, New York, NY, November 10-28
WOp: works on/off paper, ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
Science, Feature, New York, NY, February 21-March28
1997
Microcosmic Cryptozoic, HERE, New York, NY; curated by Melissa Zexter
1996
Technophobia, Things Change, Dooley LeCappellaine Virtual Gallery www.thing.net/dooley
Supastore de Lux, Up & Co, New York, NY; curated by Sarah Staton
White Columns, New York, NY
1995
Murder, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA & Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY; curated by John Yau (catalogue)
Smells like Vinyl, Roger Meriens Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Sarah Seager & Thaddeus Strode, July
1994
Who killed Mr. Moonlight, Exit Art, New York, NY; curated by Charles Labelle
MOCA Benefit, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, (catalogue)
Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
White Columns, New York, NY
1993
Four Walls Benefit, David Zwirner, New York, NY, October 28-30
Cartoonal Knowledge, Dooley LeCappellaine, New York, NY
Outside Possibilities, The Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, New York; curated by Bill Arning, June 26
Meat, White Columns, New York, NY
Interzone, John Post Lee, New York, NY; curated by Karin Bravin
1992
Stand-Ins, P.S.1 Museum, Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY; curated by Craig Kalpakjian
Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles CA
The Red Light Show, Stitching CASCO, Utrecht, The Netherlands; curated by Jack Jaeger
The Mud Club, Winchester Cathedral & Lake Nairobi, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; curated by Hudson (catalogue)
The Fate of the Earth, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Feature, New York, NY, December 4-January 4, 1992
Feature Office, New York, NY, July 10-August 9
Selected Bibliography
2011
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. "Hopeful Disaster", Modern Painters, December 2011
"Huma Bhabha / Jason Fox" Bomb, Bomb Specific, Spring 2011 pg.55
"Huma Bhabha: Drawings" The New York Times, Arts Listing, January 14, 2011
"Huma Bhabha" The New Yorker, Goings on About Town , January 17, 2011
"Huma Bhabha: Drawings" The New York Times, Gallery Listing, January 7, 2011
"On Huma Bhabha Drawings at Peter Blum Chelsea" The Drawing Center (online), January 7, 2011
Weinberg, Lauren, “Huma Bhabha at Rhona Hoffman Gallery,” Time Out Chicago, April 13, 2011.
“Review: Huma Bhbha/Rhona Hoffman Gallery”. Newcity Art. April 11
Williams, Gilda, “Huma Bhabha,” Artforum, March 2011, pp 277-278.
Masters, H.G., “Huma Bhabha,” artasiapacific, Almanac 2011, pp 230-231
2010
Sherwin, Skye, “Artist of the week 119: Huma Bhabha”, The Guardian, December 30,2010
Cotter, Holland "1 Artist, 2 Shows, 2 Mediums, 1 Vision" New York Times, December 18, 2010, The Arts pg. C1
Smith, Roberta, "When the Art Stared Back and Other Trends", New York Times,December 16, AR24.
Jackson, Matthew Day "Huma Bhabha: Mystic Truths" FlashArt, November-December 2010, pg. 88
Stillman, Steel "In the Studio: Huma Bhabha" Art in America, November 2010, pg 25
Saltz, Jerry, "The Year in Art," New York Magazine, December 5
Herbert, Martin, “Huma Bhabha,” Time Out London, December 10, 2010
Laster, Paul, " Body of Work: A Pakistani Artist's Dark Totems Mark the Fall Season", New York Observer, October 4, 2010 pg 4 and 6
Rosenberg, Karen, “Commentary That’s Both Visual and Vocal,” The New York Times, July 1, C26
Sheets, Hilarie M., "Where Pharaohs Meet Mad Max," ARTnews, Summer 2010 pg. 100
Fischer, Jonathan L. "The Nifty Fifty," New York Times Style Magazine, 8 Feb 2010
2009
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review," The New York Times, 30 January
"Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation", Phaidon Press, London, 2009
Winking, Kerstin, "Reviews," Flash Art International, October
Canning, Susan, "Of Monument and Moment: Huma Bhabha's Cinema of Decay", Sculpture Magazine, November 2009 Vol. 28 No., pg. 24
2008
Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review," The New York Times, 15 February
Considine, Liam, "Reviews," Museo, No.8.
Masters, H.G., "Reviews," Art Asia Pacific 57, March/April, p.146 (reproduction)
Schjeldahl, Peter, "Feeling Blue," The New Yorker, 4 August, pp. 74-75
Thompson, Don, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, page 6 (reproduction)
Luke, Ben, Art World, Interview, (reproductions)
Casagrande, Reggie, Lipsticktracez, online magazine interview, (reproductions)
Lee, Sasha, Beautiful Decay, Online magazine interview, (reproductions)
Genocchio, Benjamin, "Art in Review," The New York Times, October 19
2007
Smith, Roberta, "War Stories," The New York Times, December 30
Sholis, Brian, Artforum, December, pp 354 - 355
Princenthal, Nancy, Art in America, December, pp. 146 - 149
Saltz, Jerry, “Critics Pick” Art, New York Magazine, September 21 (reproduction)
Kilston, Lyra Liberty, Modern Painters, November, p.93
Mack, Joshua, Time Out New York, October 11-17, Issue 628
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review," The New York Times, October 5
Wolff, Rachel, "Young Masters," New York Magazine, October 15
Kerr, Merrily, “Ouverture,” Flash Art, January-February, page 112 (reproductions)
Dault, Gary Michael, “Visual Arts Review,” The Globe and Mail, 19 May, page R16
2006
Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 17 March, page E37
Searle, Adrian, “Culture,” The Guardian, 5 October, page 20 (reproduction)
Wullshlager, Jackie, The Financial Times, 6 October (reproduction)
Guner, Fisun, Metro, 10 October
Hubbard, Sue, The Independent, 10 October
Ellis, Patricia, Flash Art, October (reproduction)
2005
Saltz, Jerry, “Art Review,” Village Voice, 30 March, page 77
Thorson, Alice, “Art Reviews,” The Kansas City Star, 24 April
Kley, Elisabeth, ArtNews, May, page 139
Lemieux-Ruibal, Bruno, Lapiz Revista Internacional de Arte 218, December
2004
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 20 February, page E34
“Critics Pick” Art Reviews, TimeOut NY, 26 February, page 65
2002
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 19 April, page E42
1999
Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, 22 October, page E41
Ivy, Angus, “Wop:ANP Antwerp, Belgium,” Zingmagazine, Vol.3 Spring/Summer, page 229-230
1998
Cotter, Holland, “ Art in Review,” The New York Times, 20 November, page E43
Ali, S. Amjad, Dawn Magazine Sunday, 29 March, pages 4 and 5 (reproduction)
Ali, Amra, “Jargon, Identity and Space,” The News on Sunday, 29 March, page 32
Husain, Marjorie, “A Taste of the Big Apple,” The Review, 26 March, page 25 (reproduction)
1996
Lanz, Frank, ID Magazine, November
1993
Pagel, David, “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times, 13 May, page 5
Levin, Kim, “Art in Brief,” The Village Voice, January
McConnaghy, Claire, Cover, March
1992
Hagemans, Arno, “Riskant Eritiek, Maars Geen Porno in The Red Light Show,” Utrechts Nieuwsblad, 16 September
Hoenjet, Frank, “de Sinaasappelhuid van De Erotiek,” Universiteitsblad Utrechts, 24 September
“Feature Creatures,” Flash Art, November/December, page 152
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Saatchi Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art
The New York Public Library
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas
AWARDS
2008
The Aldrich Contemporary Museum Emerging Artist Award