Hamra Abbas 1976

Born 1976 in Kuwait

2015 Nanyang Technological University CCA Singapore Residencies: Insights, Nanyang, Singapore
2011 Abraaj Capital Art Prize Winner, Dubai, UAE
2010 Triangle Artist Residency, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009 Jury Prize, Sharjah Biennial 9, Sharjah, UAE; Shortlisted for the Jameel Prize, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2006 Residencies at Gasworks, Victoria & Albert Museum and Green Cardamom, London, UK
2005 Scholarship, Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, Berlin, Germany; Residence scholarship, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen, Germnay
2004 Meisterschüler Prize, Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin, Germany; Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Brooklyn, New York, USA; 8th Symposium Junge Kunst, Gütersloh, Germany
2004 Meisterschüler, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2003 Fellowship Award, artist-in-residence, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
DAAD Scholarship, Germany
2002 MA Visual Arts, National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan
1999 BFA National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan

Lives and works between Boston, USA and Lahore, Pakistan