Английская Википедия:Hajra Waheed

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Hajra Waheed is a Montréal-based artist.[1][2] Her multimedia practice includes works on paper, collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation. [3] Waheed uses news accounts, extensive research and personal histories to critically examine multiple issues including: covert power, mass surveillance, cultural distortion and the traumas of displacement caused by colonialism and mass migration.[4]

Waheed was born in 1980 in Canada.[5] She has complex ties and relationships to North America, the Middle East and South Asia. She grew up within the gated compound of Saudi ARAMCO in Dhahran.[1] She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her BFA in advanced painting and art history, in 2002.[6] She moved to Montréal in 2005 and completed her MA at McGill University in 2007. [3] At 34, Waheed received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Canadian Mid-Career Visual Artist. [7] She was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2016. [1][8]

Waheed's works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[9] the British Museum, the Devi Art Foundation, Samdani Art Foundation, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal and the National Gallery of Canada.[3][10]

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