Huma Bhabha: Welcome . . . to the one who came

About the Author

Since the 1990s, Huma Bhabha (b. 1962) has become known for layered and nuanced work that centers on reinvention of the figure and its expressive possibilities. Her formally inventive practice encompasses sculpture, drawings, and photography. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Bhabha moved to the United States in 1981 to attend the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, from which she received her BFA in 1985. She later studied at the School of the Arts at Columbia University, New York, from which she received her MFA in 1989. The artist presently lives and works in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Peter Eleey is a curator and writer based in New York. He is curator-at-large at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in China, where his exhibitions have included Maria Lassnig: Happy Martian (2023), Luc Tuymans: The Past (2024), and Anicka Yi: There Is Another Evolution, But in This One (2024), co-organized with the Leeum Museum of Art. He previously served as chief curator of MoMA PS1 in New York, where he organized more than forty exhibitions between 2010 and 2020, including Huma Bhabha: Unnatural Histories (2012).

Tausif Noor is a critic and curator whose writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Aperture, Frieze, and The Poetry Project Newsletter, as well as various artist catalogues and edited volumes. He is the recipient of a 2022 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short Form Writing and the 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Based in Oakland, California, he is a PhD candidate in the history of art at the University of California, Berkeley.