# Hayv Kahraman

URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/hayv-kahraman/
Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles

Hayv Kahraman’s multifaceted work—painting, performance, and sculpture— primarily deals with the body politics of migrant consciousness. Her paintings take on themes of memory, violence, and involuntary migration as she processes her childhood in the war-torn country of Iraq and her adolescence in Sweden as a refugee. While Kahraman’s work is intertwined with the histories of the Iran-Iraq and Gulf Wars, it is also invested in the idea of feminine collectivity, identity, belonging, and diasporic cultural memory.

Kahraman is known for creating exquisite figurative paintings on large linen panels that depict women with iridescent pale skin and inky black hair, often appearing distorted, fragmented, nude, or draped in attire decorated with Islamic geometric patterns. The disfigurement and fragmentation of the figures parallels the struggles of forced displacement. The violence of these images signifies the trauma refugees experience and their sense of detachment from the homelands they have left behind. For Kahraman, the figure she paints represents herself as a colonized woman. Through the body of this woman and the repetitive nature of her work, Kahraman grapples with a history of displacement, loss, memory, and trauma. In more recent work, Kahraman investigates ideas around immunology, military threats to our bodies, and the kinds of language used to describe our bodies, and the relationship of these to the issues around immigration and political discourse.

Hayv Kahraman was born in 1981 in Baghdad, Iraq, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Recent solo exhibitions include *Ghost Fires*, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (2025); *Look Me in the Eyes*, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, CA (2024), which traveled to the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA; *The Foreign in Us*, The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX (2024); *Gut Feelings: Part II*, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2023); *Gut Feelings*, Mosaic Rooms, London, UK (2022); *The Touch of Otherness*, SCAD Museum of Art, GA (2022); *The touch of Otherness*, Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA (2021); *Not Quite Human: Second Iteration*, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK (2020); *Hayv Kahraman: Superfluous Bodies*, Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, (2019); *To the Land of the Waqwaq*, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Hawaii, (2019); *Silence is Gold*, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2018); *Acts of Reparation*, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO (2017); *Hayv Kahraman*, The Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (2016); *Audible Inaudible*, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2016); *How Iraqi are You?*, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (2015).

Selected group exhibitions include; *HT25 (Hawai’i Triennial 2025)*, Hawai’i Contemporary, O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island, HI (2025); *Surrealism(s) – Then & Now*, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (2025); *Ten Thousand Suns*, Sydney Bienniale, Sydney, Australia (2024); *Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World,* The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (2024); *Women Defining Women In Contemporary Art Of The Middle East And Beyond*, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, (2023); The *Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives,* Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (2023); *Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1: An Exercise in Looking*, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2022); *In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination*, The Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2022); *Reflections contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa*, The British Museum, London (2021); *There Is Fiction In The Space Between*, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2020); *100 Masterpieces of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art*, The Barjeel Collection, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France (2017); Thessaloniki Biennial 5, Thessaloniki, Greece (2015); *Neighbors: Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond*, The Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey (2014); *CONTEMPORARY: Architecture, Culture and Identity*, Louisiana Museum of Modern, Humlebaek, Denmark (2013); Jameel Prize Tour, San Antonio Museum of Art (2013) and The Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2011); Jameel Prize Tour, Museum of Fine Art, Houston (2012); *Disquieting Muses*, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece (2011); *Of Women’s Modesty and Anger*, Villa Empain Center for the Arts, Brussels (2011).

Her work is featured in various international collections including The Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; The Barjeel Art Foundation Sharjah, UAE; MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art Doha, Qatar; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; among others.

## Exhibitions

- [Hayv Kahraman: Libations](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-2026.md): February 7 — March 21, 2026 · Gallery II · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman: Look Me in the Eyes](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-look-me-in-the-eyes-viewing-room.md): February 18 — March 22, 2025 · Viewing Room · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman in Aloha Nō: The 2025 Hawai’i Triennial](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-hawaii-triennial.md): February 15 — May 4, 2025 · O'ahu, Maui, and Hawai'i Island · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv KahramanLook Me in the Eyes](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-look-me-in-the-eyes-frye.md): October 5, 2024 — February 2, 2025 · Frye Art Museum · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman in 24th Biennale of Sydney 2024: Ten Thousand Suns](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-in-24th-biennale-of-sydney-2024-ten-thousand-suns.md): March 9 — June 10, 2024 · MCA Australia · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv KahramanLook Me in the Eyes](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-look-me-in-the-eyes.md): January 16 — May 19, 2024 · ICA San Francisco · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv KahramanThe Foreign in Us](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahramanthe-foreign-in-us.md): January 12 — May 11, 2024 · Moody Center For The Arts · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman in O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies.](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-in-less-than-br-greater-than-less-than-i-greater-than-o-quilombismo-of-resisting-and-insisting-of-flight-as-fight-of-other-democratic-egalitarian-political-philosophies-less-than-i-great.md): June 1 — September 16, 2023 · Haus Kulturen der Welt, Berlin · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman The Touch of Otherness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-the-touch-of-otherness.md): February 16 — July 17, 2022 · SCAD Museum of Art · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman: The touch of Otherness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/hayv-kahraman-touch-of-otherness.md): March 6 — April 17, 2021 · Gallery II · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson
- [Suffering from Realness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/suffering-from-realness.md): March 31, 2019 — February 2, 2020 · MASS MoCA · Artists: Hayv Kahraman
- [Hayv Kahraman: Silence Is Gold](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2018-09-hayv-kahraman-silence-is-gold.md): September 8 — October 24, 2018 · Artists: Hayv Kahraman

## Biography

1981 Born in Baghdad, Iraq  Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA   2006 University of Umeå, Sweden 2005 Accademia di arte e design di Firenze, Florence, Italy

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

  2026 "What cannot be said will be wept," Pilar Corrias, London, UK  "Libations," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2025 "Ghost Fires," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 2024-2025 "Look Me in the Eyes," ICA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Traveling to Fyre Art Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Seattle, WA 2024 "She has no name," Pilar Corrias, London, UK  "The Foreign in Us," The Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX 2023 "Gut Feelings: Part II," The Third Line, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE 2022 "Gut Feelings," The Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, London, UK  "Hayv Kahraman: The Touch of Otherness," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA 2021 "The Touch of Otherness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2020 "Hayv Kahraman," Pilar Corrias, London, UK 2019 "Hayv Kahraman: Not Quite Human," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY  “To the Land of the Waqwaq," Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, HI  "Hayv Kahraman: Superfluous Bodies," Museum of Art in Honolulu, HI  "Hayv Kahraman: Displaced Choreographies," curated by Rosie Cooper, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexill On Sea, Sussex, UK ([Link](https://www.dlwp.com/exhibition/hayv-kahraman/)) 2018 "Silence Is Gold," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA  "Project Series 52: Hayv Kahraman," Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA ([Link](https://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/2018/project-series-52)) 2017 "Re-weaving Migrant Inscriptions," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.jackshainman.com/exhibitions/24th-street/))  "Acts of Reparation," Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO ([Link](http://camstl.org/exhibitions/main-gallery/hayv-kahraman/)) 2016 "Audible Inaudible," The Third Line, Dubai, UAE  "Artist Drawing Club: Sound Wounds," Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA ([Link](http://www.asianart.org/regular/sound-wounds))  "Hayv Kahraman," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE  "A Change of Place: Four Solo Exhibitions," The School, Kinderhook, NY 2015 "How Iraqi Are You?," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 2014 "Collective Performance," Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS; Duke University, Durham, NC 2013 "Let the Guest be the Master," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY 2012 "Extimacy," The Third Line Gallery, Dubai 2010 "Pins and Needles," The Third Line Gallery, Dubai  "Seven Gates," Green Cardamom Gallery, London, UK  "Waraq," Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 "Marionettes," The Third Line Gallery, Doha, Qatar 2007 "Celebrating Women in the Arts," Diyarbakir, Turkey

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

  2025 "General Conditions," Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, New York, NY  "HT25 (Hawai’i Triennial 2025)," Hawai’i Contemporary, O‘ahu, Maui, and Hawai‘i Island, HI ([Link](https://hawaiicontemporary.org/))  "Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now," The Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA), Brunswick, ME 2024-2025 "Three Tired Tigers," Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2024 "Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World," San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA  "The Infinite Woman," Foundation Villa Carmignac, France  "Ten Thousand Suns," Sydney Bienniale, Sydney, Australia 2023 “Women on the Verge,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL  "The Inescapable Intertwining of All Lives," Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany ([Link](https://www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de/en/exhibitions/die_unhintergehbare_verflechtung_aller_leben/))  "O Quilombismo," Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany  "Women Defining Women In Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2022 "In The Heart of Another Country," Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany  "Stressed World," Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook, NY  "Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX 2021-2022 "Our whole, unruly selves," San José Museum of Art, San José, CA ([Link](https://sjmusart.org/exhibition/our-whole-unruly-selves)) 2021 "Reflections contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa," The British Museum, London, UK ([Link](https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/reflections-contemporary-art-middle-east-and-north-africa))  "Anti/Body," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY ([Link](https://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/anti_bodies)) 2020 "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2020-2021 “New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA 2019-2020 “Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH  “In Plain Sight,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA 2019 “I Will See It, When I Believe It," Third Line gallery, Dubai, UAE  "When Home Won't Let you Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art," curated by Eva Respini, ICA Boston, Boston, MA 2019-2020 “Suffering from Realness,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA ([Link](https://massmoca.org/event/suffering-from-realness/)) 2019 "Pulse," Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS 2018 "Still I Rise," Nottingham Contemporary, UK; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK  "Jameel Prize 5," curated by Salma Tuqan, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 2017 "The Centre Cannot Hold," curated by Suzanne Egeran, Near East, Istanbul, Turkey  "Between Two Rounds of Fire, The Exile of the Sea: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Barjeel Art Collection, United Arab Emirates," The American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.  ”Dreamers Awake,” White Cube Gallery, London, UK  "The Art Show: Art of the New Millennium in the Taguchi Art Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan 2016 "Making Her Mark," Mattuck Museum, Waterbury, CT  "Us is Them," The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH  "No Mans Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Collection, Miami, FL; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C  "Winter in America," The School, Kinderhook, New York, NY 2015 "Piece by Piece: Building a Collection," Kemper Musem of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO  "June: A Painting Show," Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK  "UNREALISM: Presented by Larry Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch," The Moore Building, Miami, FL  "5th Thessaloniki Biennale: Old Intersections-Make it Νew ΙΙΙ," curated by Katerina Gregos, Greek State Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece  "Minor Heroisms," Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey 2014 "The Shape of Things," Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY  "Neighors: contemporary narratives from Turkey and beyond," curated by Celenk Bafra, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey  "Contemporary Narratives from Turkey and Beyond," curated by Çelenk Bafra and Paolo Colombo, Istanbul Modern, Turkey  "Mise En Scène," The School, Kinderhook, NY  "Now Babylon – Architecture, Culture and Identity," curated by Kjeld Kjeldse, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark 2013 "Jameel Prize," Victoria & Albert Museum; San Antonia Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA  "Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists," Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO  "The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric," curated by Sara Raza, Maraya Art Center, Dubai, UAE  "Silk," curated by Jane Neal, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 "Fertile Crescent," Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ  "Newtopia: The State of Human Rights," Kazerne Dossin Museum, Mechelen, Belgium  "Cross-Currents: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Islamic World," curated by Jessica Hunter-Larsen, I.D.E.A. Space, Colorado Springs, CO  "Look Both Ways," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011-2013 "The Jameel Prize 2011 – Shortlist Exhibition," curated by Salma Tuqan, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Travelled to: Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2011 "The State: Social/Antisocial?," curated by Rami Farook, The Third Line Gallery and Traffic Dubai, UAE  "Disquieting Muses," curated by Syrago Tsiara, Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece  "I Don't Need Your Money Honey, All I Need Is Love," Traffic Gallery, Dubai, UAE  "Of Women’s Modesty and Anger," Villa Empain/Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium 2010 "The Silk Road," Le Tri Postal, Lille, France  "Women Painters From Five Continents," Osart Gallery, Milan, Italy 2009 "Balla-Drama," Paradise Row Gallery, London, UK  "Echo," Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA  "Sharjah Biennial," Sharjah, UAE  "Taswir: Pictorial Mapping of Islam and Modernity," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany  "Unveiled; New Art from the Middle East," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2008 "Hayv Kahraman & I-Ling Eleen Lin," Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY  "Local Produce," The Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ 2007 "Life Drawing," The Third Line, Dubai, UAE  "Celebrating Women in the Arts," Diyarbakir, Turkey 2006 "Demons," Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ 2005 Alumni show, Accademia di Arte e Design, Florence, Italy

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"How This Artist Is Using Female Contortionists to Represent the Plight of Minorities," Robb Report, August 4 ([Link](https://robbreport.com/shelter/art-collectibles/hayv-kahraman-female-contortionists-paintings-2859002/))  "The Third Line summer show at Alserkal Avenue," Arab News, May 25 ([Link](http://www.arabnews.com/node/1501876/third-line-summer-show-alserkal-avenue))  Okamura, Sara Farrell. "A Wake-Up Call at MASS MoCA: Suffering from Realness," Greylock Glass, May 5 ([Link](https://www.greylockglass.com/2019/05/06/a-wake-up-call-at-mass-moca-suffering-from-realness/))  Hodgson, Emma. "How Art Dubai's Inclusive New Direction Is A Win For Us All," Grazia Middle East, March 13 ([Link](https://www.graziame.com/culture/art-books/how-art-dubais-inclusive-new-direction-is-a-win-for-us-all)) 2018 Beeston, Georgia. 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"Frieze London review – women on top at the #MeToo art fair," The Guardian, October 4 ([Link](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/04/frieze-london-review-women-on-top-at-the-metoo-art-fair))  Shaikh, Ayesha, "5 Art Books That Will Immediately Upgrade Your Coffee Table," Harper's Bazaar Arabia (web), September 27 ([Link](https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/art/collections-curators/talking-art))  Mizota, Sharon, "Review: Hayv Kahraman’s paintings of decorous Kurdish women short-circuit stereotypical images of Iraq," LA Times (web), September 17 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/la-ca-hayv-kahraman-susanne-vielmetter-20180917-story.html))  Feliciano, Kristina, "Sex Work and Survival in Hayv Kahraman's 'Silence Is Gold,'" Gallery Gurls (web), Spetmeber 22 ([Link](http://gallerygurls.net/reviews/2018/9/23/hayv-kahraman-sex-worker-survival))  Finkel, Jori, "Hayv Kahraman on the Kurdish exodus—and the trouble with humanitarian campaigns," The Art Newspaper (web), September 21 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/hayv-kahraman-on-the-kurdish-exodus-and-the-trouble-with-humanitarian-campaigns))  "Top London Art Shows this Week: Justin John Greene to Tomma Abts," Blouin ArtInfo, September 3 ([Link](https://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/3236893/top-london-art-shows-this-week-justin-john-greene-to-tomma))  Forshaw, Siobhan, "Hayv Kahraman’s Politics of Painting," Elephant (web), July 25 ([Link](https://elephant.art/hayv-kahramans-politics-of-painting/))  Da Silva, Jose, Gareth Harris, and Emily Sharpe,"Three to See: London," The Art Newspaper (web), June 29 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/three-to-see-london-28-june-2018))  Lescase, Zoe, “13 Artists On: Immigration,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 19 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/t-magazine/immigration-art.html))  “These Artists and Designers Have Made the Shortlist for Jameel Prize 5,” Harper’s Bazaar (web), June 19 ([Link](https://www.harpersbazaararabia.com/art/news/jameel-prize-5))  Stoughton, India, “Middle Eastern Artists Give Traditional Art A Modern Twist,” Al-Monitor (web), June 4 ([Link](https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/06/middle-eastern-artists-compete-for-jameel-prize.html))  Li, Alvin, “Art Basel Hong Kong,” art-agenda (web), April 4 ([Link](http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/art-basel-hong-kong-5/))  Brady, Anna, “Collector’s Eye: Muna Al Gurg,” The Art Newspaper (web), March 26 ([Link](https://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/muna-al-gurg))  Vali, Murtaza, “Hayv Kahraman at Jack Shainman Gallery,” frieze, March  Greenberger, Alex, "Shortlist Revealed for 2018 Jameel Prize," ARTnews (web), February 6 ([Link](http://www.artnews.com/2018/02/06/jameel-prize-names-shortlist-2018-award/)) 2017 LePique, Annette, ""Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation // CAM St. Louis," The Seen (web), December 18 ([Link](http://theseenjournal.org/art-seen-national/hayv-kahraman/))  Vasvani, Bansie, “Re-Weaving Migrant Inscriptions: Hayv Kahraman,” Art Asia Pacific, December ([Link](http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/ReweavingMigrantInscriptions))  Hamdan, Lara ,”Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman creates performance based on collective memories,” St. Louis Public Radio, November 29 ([Link](http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/iraqi-born-artist-hayv-kahraman-creates-performance-based-collective-memories))  Memarian, Omid, “Weaving Objects of Loss and Memory with Hayv Kahraman,” Global Voices (web), December 2 ([Link](https://globalvoices.org/2017/12/02/weaving-objects-of-loss-and-memory-with-hayv-kahraman/))  Vali, Murtaza, “Hayv Kahraman at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York,” frieze (web), December 6 ([Link](https://frieze.com/article/hayv-kahraman))  Goldie, Kaelen Wilson, “Critics’ Pick: Hayv Kahraman at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Artforum (web), November ([Link](https://www.artforum.com/picks/id=72426))  Ray, Sharmistha, “An Iraqi Artist Bears Witness to the Trauma of Displacement,” Hyperallergic (web), November 25 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/412831/hayv-kahraman-re-weaving-migrant-inscriptions-jack-shainman-2017/))  Scott, Izabella, “The Pivotal Role That Women Have Played in Surrealism,” Artsy (web), July 4  Fowler, Nancy, “Is upcoming Contemporary Art Museum exhibition opportunity for a do-over,” KBIA (web), August 2 2016 Weiss, Haley. “Altering Space and Forming Place at The School.” Interview Magazine, May 23  Parkes, Olivia. “The Artist Painting Memories of Iraq,” Broadly VICE, July 9  Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. “Penetrating the Silence: Hayv Kahraman.” Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. 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**Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books**

  2022 Morrill, Rebecca, et al., eds. Great Women Painters. London, Phaidon, 2022. 2021 Hernandez, Jasmin. We Are Here: Visionaries of Color Transforming the Art World. Abrams, Incorporated. 2021.  Bose, Melia. Intersections: Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism. University of Florida Press, 2021.  DiQuinzio, A., Hejinian, L., and Butler, J. (2021). New time: Art and feminisms in the 21st Century. Pg 96-97. University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. 2020 al-Hariri, Impostures. NYU Press, New York, NY, 2020. 2019 Respini, Eva, and Ruth Erickson. When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration Through Contemporary Art. Yale University Press, 2019.  Kennedy, Madeleine. The Enchanted Interior. 2019.  Markonish, Denise. Suffering from Realness. Prestel Publishing, 2019.  Rebecca Morrill, Karen Wright, and Louisa Elderton, Great Women Artists. London, Phaidon, 2019.  Ibel, Rebecca, Nannette V. Maciejunes, and Dara Pizzuti. Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti. Columbus Museum of Art. Hopkins Printing, 2019: pp. 70-71, Illustrated. 2018 Wassan, Al-Khudhairi, et al. Hayv Kahraman. Rizzoli Electa, 2018.  Kahraman, Hayv, Rebecca McGrew, Madina Tlostanova, and Sinan Antoon. Hayv Kahraman: Project 52 Series, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.: New York, NY ([Link](http://www.artbook.com/9780997930627.html)) 2017 Kahraman, Hayv, Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Walter Mignolo, Octavio Zaya, J. Martin Daughtry, and Loren Olson. Hayv Kahraman: Acts of Reparation, Artbook/D.A.P: New York, NY ([Link](https://camstlshop.org/collections/books-media/products/acts-of-reparation-hayv-kahraman))  Luard, Honey. Dreamers Awake, Curated by Susanna Greeves (exhibition catalogue). White Cube Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom, June – September 2017: p. 68-69, illustrated.  Kufer, Katrina. Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Collection on Show in Washington DC. Harper’s Bazar Arabia, October 2017.  Fowler, Nancy. Is upcoming Contemporary Art Museum exhibition opportunity for a do-over? St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis, Missouri, 2 August 2017. 2016 Morrill, Rebecca, Kathryn Rattee, and Julia Hasting. Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. London, New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2016: pp. 146-149, illustrated. 2015 Marten, Helen and James Cahill. June: A Painting Show, (exhibition catalogue), Sadie Coles HQ, June 9 – August 15, 2015: illustrated.  Roselione-Valadez, Juan, Tami-Katz Freiman, and Anna Stothart. No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection  Monica, Lauren P. Della. Bodies of Work - Contemporary Figurative Painting. [S.l.]: Schiffer Publishing Ltd 2014 Ayad, Myrna, Virginia Blackburn, Adnan Z Manjal, and Wided Khadraoui. Contemporary Kingdom: The Saudi Art Scene Now. 2014.  Rubell Family Collection, and Juan Roselione-Valadez. Rubell Family Collection: Highlights & Artists' Writings. 2014: 598-599, illustrated. 2012 Le Corps DÈcouvert, 2012, Institut du monde arabe, p. 19, 94, illustrated.  Brodsky, Judith, Olin, Ferris, Baum, Kelly, Badran, Margot. The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art and Society. Rutgers University Institute for Women and Art 2011 Gavin, Francesca. Despite moments of clarity, there is no ‘ism’ in this book. 100 New Artists. Laurence King Publishing, 2011: p. 128-131, illustrated. 2009 Shabout, Nada. New Vision: Arab Art and the Twenty-First Century. London: Transglobe Publishing Ltd.  Martin-Gropius-Bau, Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity. Berliner Festspiele, Berlin  Farjam, Lisa. Saatchi Gallery Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East. London: Booth-Clibborn Editions

**Awards, Grants and Fellowships**

  2018 Jameel Prize 5, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK 2014 Excellence in Cultural Creativity, Global Thinkers Forum Awards 2011 Jameel Prize Short Listed Artist, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

**Public Collections**

   American Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq  The Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE  Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL  The British Museum, London, UK  Ford Foundation, New York, NY  Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA  MATHAF Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar  Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN  Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX  Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA  Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC, Canada  Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS  North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC  North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND  Oppenheim Collection at the Nerman Museum, KS  Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL  Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH  Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA  Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada  Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Taltham, MA  Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL  The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK  San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA