Hajra Waheed was the recipient of the 2023 Sharjah Biennial 15 Prize for her commission Hum II (2023), along with Bouchra Khalili for The Circle (2023), and Doris Salcedo for Uprooted (2020–2022).

The Sharjah Biennial Prize was established in 1993 and honours recipients selected by a distinguished jury appointed by Sharjah Art Foundation. The winners were selected from more than 160 artists/collectives and 700 artworks exhibited in 19 venues across the emirate of Sharjah.

The Sharjah Biennial 15 Prize jury was comprised of Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director of Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona), Solange Farkas (Curator and Director of Videobrasil Cultural Association) and Salwa Mikdadi (Professor of Art History and Director of the Arab Center for the Study of Art, NYU Abu Dhabi).

Hajra Waheed is the recipient of the The Hnatyshyn Foundation's 2022 Mid-Career Award for Outstanding Achievement as an Artist. Selected by an expert jury of arts professionals from across the country, this award is presented annually to one Canadian mid-career artist who has demonstrated excellence and innovation in their contemporary artistic practice and who shows promise of outstanding artistic achievement in the years ahead. Previous awardees have included: Rebecca Belmore, Ken Lum, Geoffrey Farmer, Marcel Dzama, Shary Boyle and Stan Douglas amongst others.

Artists and curators cannot apply for these awards. The selected artist is awarded $25,000.

Alongside this award for artistic achievement, The Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence of $15,000 is presented annually to a Canadian mid-career curator of contemporary visual art in recognition of their contribution to the advancement of the contemporary visual arts in Canada. The 2022 Curatorial Award for Excellence goes to Michelle Jacques.

Exhibition Support: First Major US Solo Exhibition, CAM St. Louis

8 Sept 2023 - 12 Feb 2024

https://warholfoundation.org/grants/archive/hajra-waheed/

“The Warhol Foundation is pleased to support the first major solo exhibition of Hajra Waheed, whose work does the important job of catalyzing conversations that connect global forms of resistance to a future of radical human interdependence and flourishing,” announced Rachel Bers, Program Director, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis will present the first major solo-exhibition of Montréal-based artist Hajra Waheed. The presentation will include video, sound installation, drawing, and sculpture to explore themes of unity across borders. Waheed will create a new body of work that will expand and continue her interest in ideas of transnational solidarity, as well as present a diverse array of recent work, including sound, installation, painting, works on paper, and poetry. Waheed’s exhibition at CAM will be her most ambitious to date in terms of scale, materiality, medium, and the complexity of issues it addresses. The exhibition is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi.

Exhibition Support: First Major US Solo Exhibition, CAM St. Louis

8 Sept 2023 - 12 Feb 2024

https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects

"With the NEA's support, CAM is honored to provide a platform for Waheed's bold, experimental vision and her first major solo presentation in the United States. This generous funding will enable her to create a new body of work and connect with St. Louis audiences for the very first time, in a space uniquely designed for engagement and discovery," said CAM's Executive Director, Lisa Melandri.

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) has been awarded the institution's largest Arts Project Award to date at $45,000 to support Hajra Waheed's first major US solo exhibition. Waheed's exhibition will center around Hum (2020), the artist's immersive, 16-channel sound installation originally commissioned for Lahore Biennial 02 and staged at Portikus, Frankfurt in 2020. Waheed will create a new body of work that will expand and continue her interest in ideas of unity across borders, as well as present a diverse array of recent work- sound, installation, painting, works on paper and poetry.

10 February 2022
12:00pm – 1:30pm EST

Remote Control Symposium was organized by High Line Art and the Vera List Center for Art & Politics at The New School. Panel Discussion between Hajra Waheed, Aziz Hazara and artists/collaborators Saks Afridi, Ali Rez, and Assam Khalid.

8 February 2022
9:00am - 10:30am PST

Part of the Crisis and Creativity: Artists Speak Series, South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley

Online Talk Recording