Sharjah Biennial 16

A prolific writer and curator, Hou Hanru is currently the Artistic Director of MAXXI (National Museum of 21st Century Arts), Rome.

Working with drawing, painting, graphic design, video and sculpture, Hazem Harb creates installations that highlight issues of war, loss, trauma, human vulnerability and global instability.

Elizabeth Harney’s cross-disciplinary scholarship documents, analyses and publicises the work of artists who have been active in Africa and its diaspora since the beginning of the twentieth century.

The work of N.S. Harsha embraces painting, installation, site-specific and community projects. Communicating narratives of everyday life, his work combines an eclectic range of images and iconography taken from his homeland of India and the wider world beyond.

Angela Harutyunyan is an art historian and curator. Between 2009 and 2010, she was Assistant Professor and Art Programme Director at the American University in Cairo.

John Harvey is a multidisciplinary artist of Torres Strait Island (Saibai Island) and English descent. A writer, director and producer, he works in theatre, visual art and film.

Maj Hasager is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Suha Hasan’s research explores obscure histories, material conditions and environmental impacts connected to the built environment, specifically archaeological and heritage sites.

Yuko Hasegawa is the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and Professor in Curatorial Studies at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Werner Hasler is a composer, trumpet player and electronic musician.

Fathi Hassan explores the colonial erasure of ancient languages and oral histories as well as the ambivalence and fallibility of semiotic meaning. His family was displaced from their ancestral homeland in the Nubia region of Egypt after it was flooded by the construction of the Aswan High Dam in 1962.

Art historian, critic and curator Salah M. Hassan is Director of The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University.

Mona Hatoum’s work is an outstanding example of the interweaving of ethical, political and aesthetic issues.