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exhibitions
Acts of Reparations, solo curated by Wassan Al Khudhairi, CAM St Louis, Sep 8th- Dec 31st 2017
Reweaving migrant inscriptions, solo, Jack Shainman, NYC, Oct 26th- Dec 20th 2017
Dreamers Awake, curated by Susanna Greeves, White Cube Bermondsey, June 28th- Sep 17th 2017
Birmingham Museum of Art, Gendering Memories of Iraq, A Collective Performance by Hayv Kahraman, May 10th 2017
Mashrabiya, the art of looking back : San Francisco State University, Feb 18th 2017-March 16th 2017
Hayv Kahraman solo: The Joslyn Museum, Oct 8th 2016-Jan 8th 2017
Sound Wounds The Asian Art Museum San Francisco, August 25th 2016
Audible Inaudible solo: The Third Line Sep 18th 2016
No Mans Land: Women artists from the Rubell Family Collection Rubell Collection Dec 3, 2015 -July 30th 2016 also traveling to National Museum of Women in the Arts Sep 2016-Jan 2017
A Change of Place, Four solo exhibitions The School – Jack Shainman , May 22rd 2016
Unrealism: Presented by Larry Gagosian & Jeffrey Deitch The Moore Building
Miami, dec 2015
Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will 5th Thessaloniki Biennale, June 23rd 2015
June, a painting show Sadie Coles, June 9th 2015
How Iraqi are you? Jack Shianman, Feb 27th 2015
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Jan 30th 2015
The Shape of things, Jack Shianman, Summer group show June, 2014
Collective Performance, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kasas City, March 6th 2014
Collective Performance, Duke Univeristy, Durham, 27th Marc h2014
Neighbors; Contemporary narratives from Turkey and beyong,Istanbul Modern, Jan 9th – June 8th 2014
Arab contemporary, Louisiana Museum of contemporary art, Denmark, Jan 31st – April 5th 2014
Let the guest be the master, Jack Shainman, NY Sep 10th 2013
Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists, Curated by Kim Masteller, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas, Aug 31st 2013 – March 30th 2014
The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric, Curated by Sara Raza, Maraya Art center, Dubai, Jul 17th- Sep 30th, 2013
Silk, Curated by Jane Neal, Highlight gallery, San Francisco, May 23rd, 2013
The jameel, Art inspired by Islamic tradition, Curated by Salma Tuqan, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, May 24th 2013
Cross-Currents: Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Art of the Islamic World, Curted by Jessica Hunter-Larsen, I.D.E.A. Space, CO, Feb 26th, 2013
The jameel, Art inspired by Islamic tradition, Curated by Salma Tuqan, Cantor arts center, Stanford, Dec 12th 2012
Fertile Crescent, Rutgers Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, Aug 13th, 2012
Art contemporain d’inspiration islamique, Curated by Salma Tuqan, Cantor arts center, Stanford, Dec 12th 2012.
Newtopia: the State of Human Rights, Curated by Katerina Gregos, Kazerne Dossin Museum, Belgium, Dec 1st 2012
Extimacy, Third Line gallery, Dubai, Oct 24th, 2012
The jameel, Art inspired by Islamic tradition, Curated by Salma Tuqan, Casa Arab, Madrid, Jul 15th 2012
Look both ways, Hosfelt gallery, San Francisco, Sep 8th, 2012
Disquieting Muses, Curated by Syrago Tsiara, Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art ,Greese, Jul 12th 2011
Of Women’s Modesty and Anger, Villa Empain/Boghossian Foundation, Belgiu, March 11th 2011
In the press
Artforum critic’s pick, Artforum
An Iraqi artist bares wittness to the trauma of displacement, Hyperallergic
Hayv Kahraman, Frieze
The Artist painting memories of Iraq, Broadly Vice
Hayv Kahraman’s painting capture the effects of conflict, Architectural Digest, Oct 2016
An Artist Reanimates the Sounds and Signs of the Persian Gulf War, Hyperallergic, Sep 2016
Hayv Kahraman’s Audible Inaudible, Art Agenda, Oct 2016
Hayv Kahraman, How Iraqi are you?, The New York Times, Roberta Smith, March 2015