Haseeb Ahmed
Haseeb Ahmed (b. 1985, US) is a research-based artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. He produces objects, site-specific installations, films, and writes for various publications. His work is often collaborative and draws on tools and techniques from the hard sciences to produce artworks.
Ahmed received his Masters in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in sculpture and architecture. As a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, NL), Ahmed won the Designers and Artists 4 Genomics Award with his work "The Fishbone Chapel" and initiated the project "Has the World Already Been Made?", which has been exhibited internationally including at theGöteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA, Göteborg, SE). The trilogy of exhibitions surrounding his work "The Wind Egg" culminated with a solo exhibition at the M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (BE), curated by Nav Haq and the conclusion of his PhD in practice-based art from the University of Antwerp. Ahmed recently exhibited work at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (BE), ArtLab EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH), CURRENT festival (Stuttgart, DE), 1708 Gallery (Richmond, US), and is in residency at Science Gallery Venice (IT). In 2022 …
Haseeb Ahmed (b. 1985, US) is a research-based artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. He produces objects, site-specific installations, films, and writes for various publications. His work is often collaborative and draws on tools and techniques from the hard sciences to produce artworks.
Ahmed received his Masters in Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in sculpture and architecture. As a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy (Maastricht, NL), Ahmed won the Designers and Artists 4 Genomics Award with his work "The Fishbone Chapel" and initiated the project "Has the World Already Been Made?", which has been exhibited internationally including at theGöteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA, Göteborg, SE). The trilogy of exhibitions surrounding his work "The Wind Egg" culminated with a solo exhibition at the M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (BE), curated by Nav Haq and the conclusion of his PhD in practice-based art from the University of Antwerp. Ahmed recently exhibited work at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (BE), ArtLab EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH), CURRENT festival (Stuttgart, DE), 1708 Gallery (Richmond, US), and is in residency at Science Gallery Venice (IT). In 2022 his
work will be shown in the FRONT triennial (Cleveland, US), and at BOZAR (Brussels, BE).
Courtesy of Harlan Levey Projects
