Hisham Bharoocha was born in Niigata, Japan, to a Japanese mother and Burmese Indian Gujarati father.
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The family moved to Tokyo and then to Toronto when he was two, and Hisham Bharoocha spent his elementary school years in Los Angeles and San Diego.
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Hisham Bharoocha's father died of cancer when he was 10 years old; as an adult, memories of the experience inspired the 24-foot mural and sound installation Bharoocha created for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Brooklyn.
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Hisham Bharoocha attended junior high and high school in Tokyo, where he first met Eye and other members of Boredoms.
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At RISD, Hisham Bharoocha met fellow musician Brian Gibson and became vocalist of the band Lightning Bolt after their first show.
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In 1996, Hisham Bharoocha began drumming for the Clutters, a band that the following year became Black Dice.
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Hisham Bharoocha released two albums as Soft Circle: 2009's Full Bloom was a solo endeavor, and 2010's Shore Obsessed included bandmate Ben Vida.
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Hisham Bharoocha played drums for Pixeltan, who released several EPs on DFA records.
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Hisham Bharoocha reprised his roles the following year for 88 Boadrum, a duo of free concerts performed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn; each concert began at 8:08pm local time and featured 88 drummers selected by Boredoms and Bharoocha, with Boredoms participating in the west coast performance and Gang Gang Dance conducting in New York.
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In July 2009, Hisham Bharoocha released a split 12 inch with High Places on the label PPM.
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Hisham Bharoocha is a member of the band Kill Alters, a trio with Bonnie Baxter and Nicos Kennedy; he appears on the band's releases No Self Helps and Armed To The Teeth, among others.
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Hisham Bharoocha has had solo exhibitions of his work at D'Amelio Terras gallery in New York, as well as Vleeshal, a state run space in The Netherlands.
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Hisham Bharoocha has been in numerous group exhibitions at galleries such as Deitch Projects, John Connelly Presents and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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Hisham Bharoocha's work has been published in Artforum, V, i-D, Flaunt, Tokion and more.
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Hisham Bharoocha collaborated with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, model Erin Wasson, No Age, Opening Ceremony, Maria Cornejo and United Bamboo on a line of sunglasses called Phosphorescence, and with Solange on a line of Puma sneakers.