1. Huma Bhabha was born on 1962 and is a Pakistani-American sculptor based in Poughkeepsie, New York.
17 Facts About Huma Bhabha
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Huma Bhabha is equally prolific in her works on paper, creating vivid pastel drawings, eerie photographic collages, and haunting print editions.
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Huma Bhabha's mother was an artist, though did not work as one professionally.
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Huma Bhabha continued working for him after she graduated and leveraged the professional connection to network and meet people in the art world.
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Huma Bhabha lived in New York City until 2002, when she moved to Poughkeepsie, New York, where she currently resides and works.
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Huma Bhabha lives with her husband, Jason Fox, who is an artist and whom she married in 1990.
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Huma Bhabha has noted that science-fiction and horror films, particularly the work of David Cronenberg, have contributed to motifs of puppetry and mutation in her work.
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Between 2002 and 2004, Huma Bhabha worked for a taxidermist, through which she obtained discarded animal skulls.
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Huma Bhabha never studied sculpture in art school, so her pieces were originally created through a process of trial and error.
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Huma Bhabha originally started experimenting with plastics, foam rubber, and spray paint, as well as found objects such as feathers and panty hose.
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Huma Bhabha was particularly struck by his piece, Centaur, because it was different from what she had been doing and referenced other kinds of art she liked.
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Huma Bhabha was in the midst of sculpting a clay figure when she discovered that the plastic bag she was using to keep the clay moist could serve double purpose as a sculptural element in itself.
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Huma Bhabha has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, Collezione Marmotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy, and the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen.
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Huma Bhabha created a site-specific work titled "We Come in Peace" for the roof garden at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Huma Bhabha was featured as one of sixteen creative thinkers in the 2012 film From Nothing, Something: A documentary on the creative process, which has screened at multiple film festivals including the Newport Beach Film Festival.
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In 2013 Huma Bhabha was awarded a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.
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Huma Bhabha's work is included in the following public collections:.