Residency
Hayv Kahraman
March 16, 2019 - March 31, 2019
Los Angeles-based, Iraq-born Hayv Kahraman explores themes of gender, memory and exile through her paintings and sculptures.
Los Angeles-based, Iraq-born Hayv Kahraman explores themes of gender, memory and exile through her paintings and sculptures. She weaves, tears, and reworks materials into artworks that gesture to traditions found in Europe and Asia, questioning ideas about the nature of agency and corporeality.
Hayv Kahraman’s exhibition of new artworks inspired by the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design — “To the Land of the Waqwaq” — was on view at the museum from March 29, 2019-August 31, 2019 and ran concurrently with an exhibition of additional work, “Superfluous Bodies,” in Gallery 10 at the Honolulu Museum of Art.
Exhibitions & events
Exhibition
To the Land of the Waqwaq
As artist-in-residence, LA-based, Iraq-born artist Hayv Kahraman will be creating site-specific works of art for the museum.March 29, 2019 - August 4, 2019
Exhibition
To the Land of the Waqwaq
As artist-in-residence, LA-based, Iraq-born artist Hayv Kahraman will be creating site-specific works of art for the museum.March 29, 2019 - August 4, 2019
Exhibition
Superfluous Bodies
Los Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman explores themes of identity, memory, gender, and exile across paintings and sculptures that present and re-present the “colonized” female figure.March 23, 2019
Exhibition
Superfluous Bodies
Los Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman explores themes of identity, memory, gender, and exile across paintings and sculptures that present and re-present the “colonized” female figure.March 23, 2019
