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{{Short description|Indian artist (born 1962)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Saba Hasan
| image = Saba Hasan in 2020.jpg
| caption = Hasan in 2020
| birth_date =
| birth_place = New Delhi, India
| occupation = Artist
| years_active = 1996–present
| website = {{URL|www.sabahasan.com}}
}}
'''Saba Hasan''' is an Indian [[contemporary art]]ist who is based in [[Goa]] and [[New Delhi]].

==Education==
She has a BA (Honours) in Economics from [[University of Delhi|Delhi University]], New Delhi and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from [[Syracuse University]] New York. She has also trained in art at the Ceruleum - Ecole d’arts Visuels, [[Lausanne]]<ref>{{Cite journal |date=18 December 2018 |title=[Cover image, 'The Book of Disquiet,' by Saba Hasan] |url=https://guftugu.in/2018/12/18/issue-13-cover-by-saba-hasan/ |url-status=live |journal=Guftugu: Culture Matters |issue=13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231109164504/https://guftugu.in/2018/12/18/issue-13-cover-by-saba-hasan/ |archive-date=9 November 2023 |access-date=25 June 2024}}</ref> and art history at the [[University of Cambridge]], UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/course/art-and-visual-culture-summer-programme|title=Art and Visual Culture Summer Programme|last=Henry|first=Claire|date=2017-11-13|website=www.ice.cam.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-09-12}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last= |title=Saba Hasan |url=https://www.therazafoundation.org/awards-Saba-Hasan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824044927/https://www.therazafoundation.org/awards-Saba-Hasan |archive-date=24 August 2023 |access-date=14 March 2022 |website=The Raza Foundation |language=en}}</ref>
* 1998: ''Ceruleum: Ecole D’Arts Visuels - Academie'', Lausanne, Switzerland
* 1986: ''Fellowship in Culture Studies'', [[Syracuse University]], New York, USA

== Shows and exhibitions ==
An active artist since 1996, Hasan has participated in several art shows, exhibitions, biennale's, photo exhibitions and film festivals. Some of these include:
Her work includes painting, photography, book installations, voice works and film.<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Saba Hasan |url=https://www.lensculture.com/saba-hasan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824044919/https://www.lensculture.com/saba-hasan |archive-date=24 August 2023 |access-date=6 September 2019 |website=LensCulture}}</ref> Her works are with collectors in India, UK, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Japan, Holland, USA, Spain and France.<ref name=":1" />

Saba's most recent show was a solo exhibition of her book sculptures and multimedia works at the [[Kiran Nadar Museum of Art]] (KNMA), New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite web |title=‘jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi’ Book sculptures of Saba Hasan |url=https://www.knma.org/whats-on/exhibitions/jo-gayab-hai-aur-hazir-bhi-book-sculptures-of-saba-hasan/ |access-date=2026-02-03 |website=KNMA |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nair |first=Uma |title=Saba Hasan’s whispered continuum at KNMA |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/plumage/saba-hasans-whispered-continuum-at-knma/ |access-date=2026-02-03 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Saba Hasan |url=https://www.platform-mag.com/art/saba-hasan.html |access-date=2026-02-03 |website=www.platform-mag.com}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Event
!Venue
|-
|2026
|Silver Award: Super Short Film (''Death Will Come Like a Shadow)'' <ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Awards |first=London Movie |title=London Movie Awards |url=https://londonmovieawards.com/march-2026 |access-date=2026-04-14 |website=London Movie Awards |language=en-US}}</ref>
|London Movie Awards, [https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/ Close-Up Film Centre], London, United Kingdom
|-
|2026
|''Jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi'': Solo Exhibition of Book Sculptures and Multimedia Works <ref>{{Cite news |last=Nair |first=Uma |title=Saba Hasan’s whispered continuum at KNMA |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/plumage/saba-hasans-whispered-continuum-at-knma/ |access-date=2026-02-03 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
|[[Kiran Nadar Museum of Art]] (KNMA), New Delhi, India <ref>{{Cite web |title=‘jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi’ Book sculptures of Saba Hasan |url=https://www.knma.org/whats-on/exhibitions/jo-gayab-hai-aur-hazir-bhi-book-sculptures-of-saba-hasan/ |access-date=2026-02-03 |website=KNMA |language=en-GB}}</ref>
|-
|2024
|FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid ''(Official Selection: Micro Movies Category)''
|mk2 Cine Paz & Sala Cátedra Mayor, Madrid, Spain ''(Winner: Best Screenplay for 'Death Will Come Like A Shadow')'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards – FICIMAD |url=https://ficimad.com/awards/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |language=es}}</ref>
|-
|2023
|Cinemistica Festival ''(Official Selection: Art Film Category)''
|Corrala de Santiago, Granada, Spain <ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-26 |title=PROGRAMA / PROGRAMME / 9º FESTIVAL CINEMÍSTICA 2023 ESPEJOS DE AMOR {{!}} Blog de ARTE7 CINEMATECA / CINEMÍSTICA |url=https://blog.cinemistica.com/programa-cm23-espejos-de-amor/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |language=es}}</ref>
|-
|2023
|Amarcort Film Festival ''(Finalist: Experimental Films)''
|Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy <ref>{{Cite web |last=fabio.ceccarelli@amarcort.it |first=Fabio Ceccarelli- |title=Amarcort Film Festival |url=http://www.amarcort.it/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Amarcort Film Festival |language=it}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|International Experimental Film and Video Festival ''(Official Selection: Artist Film Category, Catalog 2022)''
|Bideodromo, Bilbao Arte Fundazio, Bilbao, Spain <ref>{{Cite web |title=BIDEODROMO international experimental film and video festival |url=http://www.bideodromo.com/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=www.bideodromo.com}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|Festival of Experimental Videos & Films ''(Official selection)''
|Fisura (2022) Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico <ref>{{Cite web |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJh6o3u3Is/?igshid=YjVjNjZkNmFjNg== |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=www.instagram.com}}</ref>
|-
|2022
|Posthumous Dialogues With Artist FN Souza ''(Curator: Sabitha Satchidanandan)''
|The Museum of Goa (MOG), Pilerne, Goa, India <ref>{{Cite web |last=Ilavia |first=Perin |date=2022-05-18 |title=Through the eyes of renowned modernist Indian artist, FN Souza |url=https://www.gomantaktimes.com/my-goa/art-culture/through-the-eyes-of-renowned-modernist-indian-artist-fn-souza |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Gomantak Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Daniya |date=2022-05-13 |title=Guftugu {{!}}Posthumous Dialogues with F N Souza |url=https://guftugu.in/2022/05/13/posthumous-dialogues-with-f-n-souza |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Guftugu |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|2021
|National Exhibition of Women Artists ''(Curator: Uma Nair)''
|National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India <ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-13 |title=Around Town: Theatre, art, music and more |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/around-town-listings-theatre-art-music7226762/ |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2019
|Short film ''The Saba Bandagi Shah Project''
|Official selection at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://idsffk.in/2019/06/20/the-saba-bandagi-shah-project/|title=The Saba Bandagi Shah Project|website=IDSFFK Online|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|2019
|Short film ''Burnt Books 6''
|Part of ''Cinema of Resistance'' collective at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://idsffk.in/idsffk-films-2019/cinema-of-resistance-curator-amrit-gangar/|title=Cinema of Resistance: Curated by Amrit Gangar – IDSFFK Online|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|2018
|Short film ''Twilight On The Lake''
|Official selection at the [[Chelsea Film Festival]], New York, USA <ref name="auto2"/>
Official selection at Balinale, the Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.balinale.com/event/twilight-on-the-lake/|title=Twilight on the Lake – International Shorts – Balinale|language=en|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|2017
|''The Universe of Interconnected Experiences''
|[[Alliance Française]], New Delhi, India <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://delhi.afindia.org/events/art-exhibition-the-universe-of-interconnected-experiences-works-by-saba-hasan/|title=Art Exhibition: The Universe of Interconnected Experiences: Works by SABA HASAN|last=Delhi|first=Alliance Française de|website=Alliance Française de Delhi|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|2016
|Video and Photography Show
|Tenshin Okakura Gallery, Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India <ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.celesteprize.com/info/idu:58905|title=saba hasan - About Celeste Network|last=Italy|first=www celesteprize com-Celeste Network-|website=www.celesteprize.com|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|2015
|Video project ''Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems''
|Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India <ref name="afmagazine.in">{{Cite web|url=https://afmagazine.in/home/?p=15429|title=AF Delhi Explores a Universe of Interconnected Experiences : AF Magazine India Nepal|language=en|access-date=2019-09-14|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126082118/http://afmagazine.in/home/?p=15429|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|2014
|Video project ''Haqeeqat/The Truth/La Verite''
|Exhibition of Celeste Art Prize Finalists at Assab One, Milan, Italy <ref name="auto2"/>
|-
|2013
|''Song of a Departing Day''
|La Biennale di Venezia, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imagomundiart.com/artworks/saba-hasan-song-departing-day|title=Imago Mundi|website=www.imagomundiart.com|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imagomundiart.com/exhibitions/imago-mundi-biennale-2013|title=Imago Mundi|website=www.imagomundiart.com|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref>
|-
|2013
|''The Sketchbook Project''
|Brooklyn Art Library, New York, USA <ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.imagomundiart.com/artworks/saba-hasan-song-departing-day|title=Imago Mundi|website=www.imagomundiart.com|access-date=2019-09-06}}</ref>
|-
|2013
|Sound program ''Audio Portraits in Space''
|Osso Radio Sound Festival, Lisbon, Portugal <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thepunchmagazine.com/arts/art-design/amp-039-abstract-art-helps-express-what-words-can-amp-039-t-describe-amp-039|title='Abstract art helps express what words can't describe'|magazine=The Punch|date=30 March 2017|language=en|access-date=2023-03-25}}</ref>
|-
|2011
|''Visual Ventures''
|Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Saba Hasan {{!}} The Raza Foundation |url=https://www.therazafoundation.org/awards-Saba-Hasan |access-date=2019-09-06 |website=www.therazafoundation.org |language=en-us}}</ref>
|-
|2010
|''Contemporary Drawings''
|Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India <ref name=":0" />
|-
|2010
|''Sound Installation''
|Oscar Kokoschka Akademie, Salzburg, Austria <ref name="afmagazine.in"/>
|-
|2008
|''Ten Creative Forces''
|Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Navya Art Gallery, New Delhi, India
<br />
Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore, India <ref name=":0" />
|-
|2007
|''Art for Freedom''
|Bonhams Asia House Auction, London, UK <ref name=":0" />
|-
|2007
|''Indifferent History''
|Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India <ref name=":0" />
|-
|2006
|''Letters from Baton Rouge''
|Paris, France <ref name=":0" />
|-
|2005
|''[[Florence Biennale]]''
|Florence, Italy <ref name=":0" />
|-
|2004
|''The Written Word''
|Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India <ref name=":0" />
|-
|1996
|Debut Solo Show
|[[India International Centre]], New Delhi, India <ref name=":0" />
|}

== Awards and recognition ==
Some of Hasan's awards and accolades include:

* 2026: ''Silver Award: Super Short Film'', ''London Movie Awards,'' London, United Kingdom <ref name=":2" />
* 2024: ''FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid'', Spain <ref>{{Cite web |title=Awards – FICIMAD |url=https://ficimad.com/awards/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |language=es}}</ref>
* 2023: ''Vienna International Film Awards'', Austria <ref>{{Cite web |title=VIFA Vienna International Film Awards |url=https://www.viennainternationalfilmawards.com/viennainternationalfilmawards.com |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=www.viennainternationalfilmawards.com |language=en-AT }}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* 2023: ''Mannheim Arts and Film Festival'', Germany <ref>{{Cite web |title=Winners 2023 – Mannheim Arts and Film Festival |url=https://mannheimartsandfilmfestival.com/winners-2023/ |access-date=2023-09-01 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 2022: ''Indo-French International Film Festival'', Pondicherry, India <ref>{{Cite web |title=death will come like a shadow |url=https://filmfreeway.com/deathwillcomelikeashadow |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=FilmFreeway |language=en}}</ref>
* 2022: ''Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant'', New York, USA <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-29 |title=Indian artist Saba Hasan wins Pollock Grant 2022 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/plumage/indian-artist-saba-hasan-wins-pollock-grant-2022/?frmapp=yes |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=Times of India Blog |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Saba Hasan {{!}} Works {{!}} Pollock Krasner Image Collection |url=https://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/artist/Saba_Hasan/works/?list_url=/artists?sort=FJ&page=1&letter=H |access-date=2022-07-07 |website=www.pkf-imagecollection.org |language=en}}</ref>
* 2014: ''MIFA: Moscow International Foto Awards'', Moscow, Russia <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.moscowfotoawards.com/winners/single-winner/|title=Single Winner|website=MIFA|access-date=2019-09-13}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*2014: ''Celeste'' Contemporary Art Prize Nomination, Milan, Italy <ref name="auto2" />
*2008: ''RPG Art Residency'', Madh Island, India <ref name="Imago Mundi Collection">{{Cite web |title=Imago Mundi Collection |url=https://imagomundicollection.org/artworks/saba-hasan-song-departing-day |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=imagomundicollection.org}}</ref>
* 2007: ''Award for Painting'', [[Raza Foundation]], India <ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |title=Saba Hasan {{!}} The Raza Foundation |url=https://www.therazafoundation.org/awards-Saba-Hasan |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=www.therazafoundation.org |language=en-us}}</ref>
* 2006: ''Residency in Paris'', Government of France <ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-10-04 |title=Artists |url=https://vaica.org/artists/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809215347/https://vaica.org/artists/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 August 2020 |access-date=2023-05-01 |language=en}}</ref>
* 2002: ''Residency'', George Keyt Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka <ref name="Imago Mundi Collection"/>

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[[Category:1962 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Painters from Delhi]]
[[Category:Women artists from Delhi]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:Artists from New Delhi]]
[[Category:Indian contemporary painters]]
[[Category:Indian women contemporary artists]]
[[Category:Indian contemporary artists]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian women painters]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women painters]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian painters]]
[[Category:Women directors]]
[[Category:Multimedia artists]]
[[Category:Video artists]]

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