Huma Bhabha
Huma Bhabha creates nuanced, formally inventive sculptures, drawings, and photographs that reinvent the figure and its expressive possibilities.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Bhabha came to the United States in 1981 to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, from which she received her BFA in 1985. She later studied at the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York, from which she received her MFA in 1989. The artist presently lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Recent solo exhibitions and installations of Bhabha’s work have been held at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York (2024; organized by Public Art Fund); M Leuven, Belgium (2023; travelled to MO.CO., Montpellier, France); Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico (2022–2023); Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (2020); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2019); and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2018). Bhabha has also exhibited in prominent group exhibitions internationally, including the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020); 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture International, Wakefield, England; 56th Venice Biennale (2015); and the 2010 Whitney Biennial.
In 2022, Bhabha was elected as a National Academician by the The National Academy of Design, New York, and in 2023, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Her work is held in significant collections worldwide.
