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HASSAN HAJJAJ

ARTFORMS
photography, design, and filmmaking

MATERIALS / MEDIA
recycling Objects ,portraiture, installation, performance, fashion, and interior design

GUIDING INTERESTS
A photographer, designer, and filmmaker, Hassan Hajjaj is one of Morocco’s preeminent international artists, Entirely self-taught and influenced by a mix of London’s hip-hop and reggae scenes and his North African heritage, Hajjaj has a diverse practice that includes portraiture, installation, performance, fashion, and furniture design. He is best known for his photography, a medium he turned to in the late 1980s and in which he draws influence from Pop Art, fashion photography, and the studio work of Malick Sidibe. His recent work centers on “rockstars,” capturing a range of international musicians and performers in exquisitely composed, radically ornate portraits (and in a film that debuted at LACMA).

EXHIBITIONS Selection
Solo shows
2017 l La Caravane, Vigo Gallery, London
Hassan Hajjaj, projects+gallery, St. Louis
2015 l Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars, Newark Museum, Newark

Group shows
2019 l African Spirits, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Artscoops
1-54 Marrakech, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Styles of Resistance: From the Corner to the Catwalk, MoCADA, Brooklyn
2018 l Contemporary Muslim Fashions, de Young Museum, San Francisco
New Feelings: Photography from a Diasporic Perspective, The Center for Contemporary Art & Culture – Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, USA

Fair booths
2019
Yossi Milo Gallery at Paris Photo 2019, Yossi Milo Gallery
Yossi Milo Gallery at 1-54 London 2019, Yossi Milo Gallery
Yossi Milo Gallery at 1-54 New York 2019, Yossi Milo Gallery

2018 l Vigo Gallery at 1-54 London 2018, Vigo Gallery
2017 lprojects+gallery at Seattle Art Fair 2017, projects+gallery