twilight on the lake

Saba Hasan is a noted indian contemporary artist with a creatively diverse body of work consisting of paintings, photographs, book installations, videos and sound. She has been awarded international fellowships from Syracuse University, New York, Ecole d’Arts Visuels, Lausanne, 1998, the Government of France, Paris, 2006 the George Keyt Art Foundation, Colombo 2002 and Raza National Award for painting, 2005. The Brooklyn Art Library, New York made Hasan’s 38 page sketchbook on early science from the Islamic world a part of their permanent collections in 2011. Saba’s work was at the Fondazione Stampalia as part of the Imago Mundi Foundation collateral show in the 55th International Venice Biennale, 2013. In the same year her photographs received honorable mention at the Moscow Foto Awards. Her video titled La Verite/Haqeeqat/Truth based on socio-political aspects of truth emerging through her conversations was nominated for the Celeste Contemporary Art Prize 2014. Saba’s sound works have been presented at the Salzburg Arts Festival 2010, Sound and Architecture Show, Lisbon 2013 and as part of John Adams’ opening piece at the Met Breuer Museum, New York 2016. In 2022 Saba was awarded the Pollock- Krasner grant by the New York Foundation. She got the best micro short film award at the Indo French Film Festival 2022 and the best artist film at the Manheim Art and Film Festival. Her short films have been screened at the Fisura Experimenta Film Festival, Mexico City, Bilbao Arte Fundazio , Bilbao, the Chelsea Film Festival New York among others.