Hamid Waheed

Hamid Waheed is a filmmaker and visual artist utilizing moving images, as well as writing and performing. His work often emphasizes characterization, dramaturgy and queer desires as methods of investigating psycho-social structures, ruminating on time, intimacies and violence. He is also interested in histories and the materialities of archived data. He has an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, a BFA in Moving Images from Nordland College of Art and Film and is part of the curatorial collective ’HÆRK’.

Works have been presented a number of places, including the Museum of Cultural History, Fotogalleriet and Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo); Open Out Festival and Tromsø Kunstforening (Tromsø); METEOR International Theatre Festival and KODE (Bergen); Nikolaj Kunsthal and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (Copenhagen); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2020, he won the Critic Prize at Nord-Norsken for the installation video ”Papegøye” and was one of three nominees for the Blix Prize in 2022.

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