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Comment: The section titled 'Solo exhibitions', which looks like a list of some sort, is causing a flag for copyright violations of this page. As lists of this kind could be seen as unduly promotional, my advice would be to remove the list from the article body, and maybe add a simple External Link at the bottom of the article linking to the said page. The section titled 'Selected group exhibitions', which looks like a list of some sort, is causing a flag for copyright violations of this page. As lists of this kind could be seen as unduly promotional, my advice would be to remove the list from the article body, and maybe add a simple External Link at the bottom of the article linking to the said page. - RichT|C|E-Mail 23:11, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Comment: This might be a case of too soon. I am not seeing evidence of international exhibitions, no museum collections, and no highly regarded art awards yet. There is some national press though. PigeonChickenFish (talk) 22:51, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
Bessma Khalaf is an immigrant artist from Iraq, who focuses her work on multimedia performance. Khalaf is a multimedia artist, so she incorporates the use of several different mediums, including but not limited to photography, video, and performance art.[1] Most of Khalaf's creative processes take place in her studio, which is located in Oakland, California.
Khalaf moved to the US when she was a child and has been creating artwork in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 14 years. She immigrated to the US at the age of 12 in fear of the religious persecution she would face in Iraq as a Catholic woman. Her work tends to be experimental, with a primary focus on the destruction of landscapes; she feels that this is due to her constantly being surrounded by her homeland being bombed as a child. This internalized frustration and conflict between her religious affiliation and her home country's actions against civilians, as well as the United States' militaristic stance on Iraq, has proven to be the backbone of her work. Other dominant themes of Khalaf's work include her personal struggles of finding her place in the world as well as general feelings of bitterness that immigrants living in the US often face.[2]
Early life and education
editBessma Khalaf was born in 1978 in Baghdad, Iraq. In 1990, at the age of 12, Khalaf moved to San Diego, United States with her family. She was educated at San Diego State University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in 2002 and her BFA in 2003. She went on to earn a Masters in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, in 2007.[3] Khalaf met her husband, photographer Nick Karvounis, when they were grad students at CCA together. Since then, they have worked professionally together in several different mediums.[4] Khalaf's work has been exhibited across the United States in San Francisco, New York, Santa Monica, and Baltimore. She now creates and showcases her work throughout the Bay Area.
Works
editOne of her most well-known works is Knock Out (2008). This multimedia piece depicts in photography format Khalaf punching through paper that displays American landscapes on it. Knock Out represents the immigrant experiences in the US through the punching of American landscapes.[1] Similarly, Khalaf's Standing on a Beach (2004) displays a piece of paper, which has a video of the ocean playing on it, burning. In her video performance This Land Is My Land (2006), Khalaf is shown eating a sculpture of land that is made out of food, and spitting it back out.[2] Torch Song (2018) is an exhibition that is filled with works of black and white destructed landscape photographs. Each work has either been burned, smashed, or consumed to show that beauty can still be found in destruction.[5] Still following the theme of destruction, Khalaf's piece Monument (2009) is reflecting on inevitable defeat through six hours of sitting on an ice horse in Stockholm, which ends in her falling to the ground.[6][7] Throughout another long duration of time, Khalaf for her work Tree Painting (2007) painted a dead Christmas tree green for five hours to display art's connection to rebirth.[8] Khalaf's 2012 piece The Long Goodbye, a 12-hour video of a hand pouring candle wax out of a frame, and her exhibition Re-Enchanter was featured in Artforum magazine.[9]
Recently she was featured in collaborative exhibition entitled Elemental Exposures located in Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco.[10] Collaborators included Kristiana Chan, Binh Danh and Dionne Lee; all of them focused used aspects of photography to depict American Landscapes.[11]
Awards and scholarships
editKhalaf won the California College of the Arts Scholarship and The Byron Meyer Scholarship awards in 2005. In 2006, she additionally won three more awards; they were from The Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship in Fine Art, California College of the Art Scholarship, and The Byron Meyer Scholarship. She also received The Vision From The New California Award in 2012.[12]
References
edit- ^ "2017 11 16 Bessma Khalaf". UC Libraries MediaSpace. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ a b "Bessma Khalaf: Destruction of the California Landscape". State of Convergence. 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ "BK CV". Romer Young Gallery. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- ^ Bravo, Tony (March 31, 2016). "Light Dark Studio takes art out of the gallery and into fashion". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- ^ Ardamis.com. "Bessma Khalaf | i like this art". Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ Bowles, Nellie (May 18, 2011). "ArtPadSF: Bessma Khalaf's works at inaugural show". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Helfand, Glen (16 October 2009). "Bessma Khalaf at Steven Wolf Fine Arts". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ "Bessma Khalaf | Widewalls". www.widewalls.ch. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
- ^ Helfand, Glen (14 May 2012). "Bessma Khalaf, Steven Wolf Fine Arts". Artforum. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
- ^ "Elemental Exposures: Revisions of the American Landscape | University of San Francisco". www.usfca.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ Fausey, Namratha Kethineni, Callie (2022-02-06). "Elemental Exposures: USF Thacher Gallery's Latest Exhibition - San Francisco Foghorn". Retrieved 2024-04-03.
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