Hajra Waheed

Hajra Waheed is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Her practice explores the nature of power, the human impact of displacement and incarceration, and the transformative possibilities of liberation struggles. Characterized by a distinct visual language and a unique poetic approach, her works often use the ordinary to convey the profound, and invoke landscape to transpose human struggle and a radical politics of resistance and resilience.

Recent exhibitions include: 36th Sao Paulo Biennial (2025); Fragmentos, Bogota (2025); 15th Shanghai Biennial (2025) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2024); Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Delhi (2024); State of Concept, Athens (2023); Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2023); Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt (2020); Lahore Biennial 02, Pakistan (2020); British Museum, London (2019); The Power Plant, Toronto (2019); 57th Venice Biennale (2017); 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2016); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2016); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015).  Still Against the Sky, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015); La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec (2014); Lines of Control, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (2012) and (In) The First Circle, Antoni Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, ES (2012).  She lives and works between Montreal and Yogyakarta.