Saba Hasan
Saba Hasan is an Indian contemporary artist who is based in Goa and New Delhi.
Saba Hasan

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- Name
- Saba Hasan
- Birthplace
- New Delhi, India
- Occupation
- Artist
- Born
- 1962 · New Delhi.
- Nationality
- India
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Saba Hasan is an Indian contemporary artist who is based in Goa and New Delhi.
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• Name — Saba Hasan • Birthplace — New Delhi, India • Occupation — Artist • Years Active — 1996–present • Website — www.sabahasan.com
Education
Education
She has a BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi University, New Delhi and a Masters in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University New York. She has also trained in art at the Ceruleum - Ecole d’arts Visuels, Lausanne and art history at the University of Cambridge, UK. • 1998: Ceruleum: Ecole D’Arts Visuels - Academie, Lausanne, Switzerland • 1986: Fellowship in Culture Studies, Syracuse University, New York, USA
Shows and exhibitions
Shows and exhibitions
An active artist since 1996, Hasan has participated in several art shows, exhibitions, biennale's, photo exhibitions and film festivals. Some of these include: Her work includes painting, photography, book installations, voice works and film. Her works are with collectors in India, UK, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Japan, Holland, USA, Spain and France. Saba's most recent show was a solo exhibition of her book sculptures and multimedia works at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi. • Year — Event — Venue • 2026 — Silver Award: Super Short Film (Death Will Come Like a Shadow) — London Movie Awards, Close-Up Film Centre, London, United Kingdom • 2026 — Jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi: Solo Exhibition of Book Sculptures and Multimedia Works — Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA), New Delhi, India • 2024 — FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid (Official Selection: Micro Movies Category) — mk2 Cine Paz & Sala Cátedra Mayor, Madrid, Spain (Winner: Best Screenplay for 'Death Will Come Like A Shadow') • 2023 — Cinemistica Festival (Official Selection: Art Film Category) — Corrala de Santiago, Granada, Spain • 2023 — Amarcort Film Festival (Finalist: Experimental Films) — Amarcort Film Festival, Rimini, Italy • 2022 — International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Official Selection: Artist Film Category, Catalog 2022) — Bideodromo, Bilbao Arte Fundazio, Bilbao, Spain • 2022 — Festival of Experimental Videos & Films (Official selection) — Fisura (2022) Centro de Cultura Digital Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico • 2022 — Posthumous Dialogues With Artist FN Souza (Curator: Sabitha Satchidanandan) — The Museum of Goa (MOG), Pilerne, Goa, India • 2021 — National Exhibition of Women Artists (Curator: Uma Nair) — National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), New Delhi, India • 2019 — Short film The Saba Bandagi Shah Project — Official selection at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India • 2019 — Short film Burnt Books 6 — Part of Cinema of Resistance collective at the 12the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala, India • 2018 — Short film Twilight On The Lake — Official selection at the Chelsea Film Festival, New York, USA Official selection at Balinale, the Bali International Film Festival, Indonesia • 2017 — The Universe of Interconnected Experiences — Alliance Française, New Delhi, India • 2016 — Video and Photography Show — Tenshin Okakura Gallery, Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India • 2015 — Video project Saba Hasan Reads Her Poems — Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India • 2014 — Video project Haqeeqat/The Truth/La Verite — Exhibition of Celeste Art Prize Finalists at Assab One, Milan, Italy • 2013 — Song of a Departing Day — La Biennale di Venezia, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy • 2013 — The Sketchbook Project — Brooklyn Art Library, New York, USA • 2013 — Sound program Audio Portraits in Space — Osso Radio Sound Festival, Lisbon, Portugal • 2011 — Visual Ventures — Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India • 2010 — Contemporary Drawings — Emami Chisel Art, Calcutta, India • 2010 — Sound Installation — Oscar Kokoschka Akademie, Salzburg, Austria • 2008 — Ten Creative Forces — Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai, India Navya Art Gallery, New Delhi, India Time and Space Gallery, Bangalore, India • 2007 — Art for Freedom — Bonhams Asia House Auction, London, UK • 2007 — Indifferent History — Cymroza Art Gallery, Mumbai, India • 2006 — Letters from Baton Rouge — Paris, France • 2005 — Florence Biennale — Florence, Italy • 2004 — The Written Word — Apparao Galleries, Chennai, India • 1996 — Debut Solo Show — India International Centre, New Delhi, India
Life and career
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Life and career
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1962
Saba Hasan was born on 1 January 1962.
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Awards and recognition
Some of Hasan's awards and accolades include: • 2026: Silver Award: Super Short Film, London Movie Awards, London, United Kingdom • 2024: FICIMAD Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Madrid, Spain • 2023: Vienna International Film Awards, Austria • 2023: Mannheim Arts and Film Festival, Germany • 2022: Indo-French International Film Festival, Pondicherry, India • 2022: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA • 2014: MIFA: Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Russia • 2014: Celeste Contemporary Art Prize Nomination, Milan, Italy • 2008: RPG Art Residency, Madh Island, India • 2007: Award for Painting, Raza Foundation, India • 2006: Residency in Paris, Government of France • 2002: Residency, George Keyt Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- 1.[Cover image, 'The Book of Disquiet,' by Saba Hasan]. Guftugu: Culture Matters. 13. 18 December 2018.
- 2.Henry, Claire. Art and Visual Culture Summer Programme. www.ice.cam.ac.uk. 2017-11-13.
- 3.Saba Hasan. The Raza Foundation.
- 4.Saba Hasan. LensCulture.
- 5.‘jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi’ Book sculptures of Saba Hasan. KNMA.
- 6.Nair, Uma. Saba Hasan’s whispered continuum at KNMA. The Times of India. 0971-8257.
- 7.Saba Hasan. www.platform-mag.com.
- 8.Awards, London Movie. London Movie Awards.
- 9.Nair, Uma. Saba Hasan’s whispered continuum at KNMA. The Times of India. 0971-8257.
- 10.‘jo ġāyab hai, aur hāzir bhi’ Book sculptures of Saba Hasan. KNMA.
- 11.Awards – FICIMAD.
- 12.PROGRAMA / PROGRAMME / 9º FESTIVAL CINEMÍSTICA 2023 ESPEJOS DE AMOR Blog de ARTE7 CINEMATECA / CINEMÍSTICA. 2023-10-26.
- 13.fabio.ceccarelli@amarcort.it, Fabio Ceccarelli-. Amarcort Film Festival.
- 14.BIDEODROMO international experimental film and video festival. www.bideodromo.com.
- 15.Instagram. www.instagram.com.
- 16.Ilavia, Perin. Through the eyes of renowned modernist Indian artist, FN Souza. Gomantak Times. 2022-05-18.
- 17.Daniya. Guftugu Posthumous Dialogues with F N Souza. Guftugu. 2022-05-13.
- 18.Around Town: Theatre, art, music and more. The Indian Express. 2021-03-13.
- 19.The Saba Bandagi Shah Project. IDSFFK Online.
- 20.Cinema of Resistance: Curated by Amrit Gangar – IDSFFK Online.
- 21.Twilight on the Lake – International Shorts – Balinale.
- 22.Delhi, Alliance Française de. Art Exhibition: The Universe of Interconnected Experiences: Works by SABA HASAN. Alliance Française de Delhi.
- 23.Italy, www celesteprize com-Celeste Network-. saba hasan - About Celeste Network. www.celesteprize.com.
- 24.AF Delhi Explores a Universe of Interconnected Experiences : AF Magazine India Nepal.
- 25.Imago Mundi. www.imagomundiart.com.
- 26.Imago Mundi. www.imagomundiart.com.
- 27.Imago Mundi. www.imagomundiart.com.
- 28.'Abstract art helps express what words can't describe'. The Punch. 30 March 2017.
- 29.admin. Saba Hasan The Raza Foundation. www.therazafoundation.org.
- 30.Awards – FICIMAD.
- 31.VIFA Vienna International Film Awards. www.viennainternationalfilmawards.com. July 2025.
- 32.Winners 2023 – Mannheim Arts and Film Festival.
- 33.death will come like a shadow. FilmFreeway.
- 34.Indian artist Saba Hasan wins Pollock Grant 2022. Times of India Blog. 2022-06-29.
- 35.Saba Hasan Works Pollock Krasner Image Collection. www.pkf-imagecollection.org.
- 36.Single Winner. MIFA. July 2025.
- 37.Imago Mundi Collection. imagomundicollection.org.
- 38.admin. Saba Hasan The Raza Foundation. www.therazafoundation.org.
- 39.Artists. 2019-10-04.
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