Naeem Mohaiemen

Mohaiemen received a PhD in anthropology in 2019 from Columbia University and is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts{{cite web |title=Columbia University Visual Arts |url=https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/naeem-mohaiemen |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=31 August 2021}} there. He received BA in economics and concentration in history from Oberlin College in 1993. He was a member of Oberlin College's Board of Trustees (1994–1996).

Mohaiemen's films include the Turner Prize nominated duo of films Tripoli Cancelled (2017) and Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017), both of which premiered at Documenta 14 in Athens{{Cite journal|last=Tialiou|first=Kelley|date=June 2019|title=Inhabiting Liminality: Cosmopolitan World-Making in Naeem Mohaiemen's Tripoli Cancelled|journal=Humanities|volume=8|issue=2|pages=117|doi=10.3390/h8020117|doi-access=free}} and Kassel. Tripoli Cancelled had an American premiere at Museum of Modern Art, New York.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3896|title=Naeem Mohaiemen: There Is No Last Man|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2019-01-14}}, and Two Meetings and a Funeral had a British premiere at Tate Britain as part of the 2018 Turner Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2018|title=Turner Prize 2018 – Exhibition at Tate Britain|last=Tate|website=Tate|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-01-14}} American premiere at Art Institute of Chicago.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9059/naeem-mohaiemen-two-meetings-and-a-funeral|title=Naeem Mohaiemen: Two Meetings and a Funeral|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|language=en|access-date=2019-01-14}}{{Cite journal|last=Wang|first=Dan S.|date=September 2019|title=Two Meetings and a Funeral|url=https://afterimage.ucpress.edu/content/46/3/89|journal=Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism|volume=46|issue=3|pages=89–94|doi=10.1525/aft.2019.463014|doi-access=}}

His films explore histories of the revolutionary left as "accidental trojan horse", including Last Man in Dhaka Central (2015) which premiered at the 56th Venice Biennale as part of "All The World's Futures" curated by Okwui Enwezor.{{cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/artists/|title=Artists|website=La Biennale di Venezia|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121129/http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/artists/|archivedate=2 April 2015|url-status=dead|accessdate=18 April 2015}} Venice Biennial Artist List, Afsan's Long Day (2014) which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as part of "Doc Fortnight".[http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/20256] MOMA: Doc Fortnight. Retrieved on 18 March 2015. and had a festival premiere at Oberhausen[http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/press/press-releases/festival-2014/the-competitions-of-the-60th-festival/?print=1&cHash=1b3390d50748410af9ec1c90133f1230] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622174337/http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/press/press-releases/festival-2014/the-competitions-of-the-60th-festival/?print=1&cHash=1b3390d50748410af9ec1c90133f1230|date=22 June 2015}} Oberhausen in Competition and a British premiere at the British Film Institute London Film Festival.[https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=materialevidenceamajorminorhistory] BFI London Film festival: Material Evidence, The first film in this series is United Red Army (2011)[http://www.sharjahart.org/blog/2011/march/notes-from-a-biennial--on-a-day-of-words-one Guy Mannes-Abbott, Sharjah Art Foundation, 18.03.2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426065746/http://www.sharjahart.org/blog/2011/march/notes-from-a-biennial--on-a-day-of-words-one |date=26 April 2016 }}. Sharjahart.org (18 March 2011). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. about the Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1977) Hijacking in which premiered at Sharjah Biennial, Hot Docs,[http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/young_man_was_part_1_united_red_army] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830014013/http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/young_man_was_part_1_united_red_army|date=30 August 2012}} Hot Docs. Retrieved on 9 December 2012. and International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA),[http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=C55E4F5A-CFBE-414E-8B28-9447274066DE&tab=-] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160508112101/https://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=C55E4F5A-CFBE-414E-8B28-9447274066DE&tab=-|date=8 May 2016}} IDFA Website. Retrieved on 9 December 2012. has shown at The New Museum.[http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/1409] New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved on 9 December 2012.

His films are in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern.[https://vimeo.com/32672952] In conversation with Bernadette Buckley. [http://www.londonconsortium.tv/?p=217] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073351/http://www.londonconsortium.tv/?p=217|date=4 March 2016}} Out of the Archive, London Consortium at Tate Modern. , the Museum of Modern Art, Sharjah Art Foundation, and Kiran Nadar Museum.

Chapters from Mohaiemen's project on the 1970s revolutionary left ("The Young Man Was") have exhibited at the Mahmoud Darwish Museum, [https://abdur-razzaq-foundation.org/ Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation], Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bengal Foundation Shilpalay, Chobi Mela, Documenta 14, Kiran Nadar Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York, British Museum, Tate Britain, New Museum (New York),[http://zine.artcat.com/2009/01/naeem-mohaiemen-at-new-musuem.php ArtCat Zine – Events – Naeem Mohaiemen at New Museum]. Zine.artcat.com (27 January 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. Frieze Art Fair (London),[http://lunettesrouges.blog.lemonde.fr/2010/10/26/retour-a-frieze/ "Retour à Frieze", Le Monde, 26 October 2010]. Lunettesrouges.blog.lemonde.fr (26 October 2010). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. MUAC Mexico City,{{in lang|es}} [http://eleconomista.com.mx/entretenimiento/2011/06/30/muac-arte-ficciones-politica-violencia Concepción Moren, "arte, ficciones, política y violencia", El Economista, 20 June 2011]. Eleconomista.com.mx (30 June 2011). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. the 56th Venice Biennial, and the Lahore, Sharjah, Marrakech, and Eva (Ireland) Biennials.

Mohaiemen co-founded Visible Collective,[http://disappearedinamerica.org/press/ Press]. Disappeared in America. Retrieved on 12 November 2011. a collective of New York-based artists and lawyers investigating post-9/11 security panic. Visible's work exhibited internationally, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art ("Wrong Gallery" room)[http://whitney.org/www/2006biennial/artists.php?artist=WrongGallery "Down by Law", curated by Wrong Gallery]. Whitney.org. Retrieved on 12 November 2011. and L'institut des cultures d'Islam in Paris.[http://www.institut-cultures-islam.org/ici/festival-des-cultures-d-islam/expositions-80/collectif-visible.html Collectif Visible – Institut des Cultures d'Islam]. Institut-cultures-Islam.org. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.

His solo projects have looked at military coups ("My Mobile Weighs A Ton" at Dhaka Gallery Chitrak),[http://thedailystar.net/magazine/2008/08/05/exhibition.htm Nader Rahman, "Blurred pictures and sharp words", Star Weekend Magazine, 29 August 2008]. The Daily Star (29 August 2008). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. surveillance ("Otondro Prohori, Guarding Who?", Chobi Mela V at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy),[http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=76613 Jamil Mahmud, "Naeem Mohaiemen takes a look at fear mongering", The Daily Star, 20 February 2009]. (20 February 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. Indian partition ("Kazi in Nomansland" at Dubai Third Line),[http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45691 Beena Sarwar, "Artists Take On Post-Colonial Partitions", IPS, 6 February 2009]. Ipsnews.net (6 February 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. architectural nationalism ("Penn Station Kills Me" at Exit Art),[http://www.exitart.org/exit_archive/history/2007.html History | 2007]. Exit Art. Retrieved on 12 November 2011. and dueling leftist and Islamist politics ("Live True Life or Die Trying" at Cue Art Foundation, New York).[http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/naeem-mohaiemen/ Brian Boucher, Art in America, 1/15/2010]. Artinamericamagazine.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.

Mohaiemen is author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash.{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2014 |title=Naeem Mohaiemen: Prisoners of Shothik Itihash |publisher=Kunsthalle Basel |isbn=978-3-85562-030-2}} He edited the anthologies Between Ashes and Hope: Chittagong Hill Tracts in the blind spot of Bangladesh nationalism,[http://www.thedailystar.net/magazine/2010/09/01/book.htm Samya Kullab, "Championing Pahari Rights", Star Weekend Magazine, 17 September 2010]. The Daily Star (17 September 2010). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. Collectives in atomised time,[http://idensitat.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:collectives-in-atomised-time&catid=26:ideng-publicacions&Itemid=27 Collectives in Atomised Time, with Doug Ashford, Idensitat Press] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331151446/http://idensitat.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:collectives-in-atomised-time&catid=26:ideng-publicacions&Itemid=27 |date=31 March 2012 }}. Idensitat.net. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.{{cite book |author1=Lorenzo Fusi |author2=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2007 |title=System error: war is a force that gives us meaning |publisher=Silvana |isbn=978-88-366-0842-3}}

He was the primary critic of Dead Reckoning, a book by Sarmila Bose on the 1971 war of Bangladesh. His response was cited by the BBC[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13417170 Alastair Lawson, "Controversial book accuses Bengalis of 1971 war crimes", BBC, 16 June 2011] and published in Economic & Political Weekly ("Waiting for a real reckoning on 1971").[http://www.bricklanecircle.org/uploads/Flying_Blind.pdf Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 46 No. 36, 3 September 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425051119/http://www.bricklanecircle.org/uploads/Flying_Blind.pdf |date=25 April 2012 }} Bose responded to his remarks in the same periodical, followed by a rebuttal from Mohaiemen.[http://www.bricklanecircle.org/uploads/Bose_and_Naeem.pdf Sarmila Bose, "Dead Reckoning: A Response". Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 46 No. 53, 31 December 2011] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130723022728/http://www.bricklanecircle.org/uploads/Bose_and_Naeem.pdf |date=23 July 2013 }}

Essays on Bangladesh history include"Muktijuddho: Polyphony of the Ocean",{{cite news |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |date=9 April 2016 |title=Muktijuddho: Polyphony of the Ocean |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/muktijuddho-polyphony-the-ocean-1206313 |work=The Daily Star}} "Accelerated Media and the 1971 Genocide",[http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2011/December/accelerated.htm Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 43 No. 04, 26 January 2008] "Musee Guimet as Proxy Fight",{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2010 |chapter=Asterix & the Big Fight: Proxy Wars, Temporary Coalitions |editor1=Steven Rand |title=Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking, Alternative Spaces |publisher=Apexart |isbn=978-1-933347-43-1}} "Mujtaba Ali: Amphibian Man" (The Rest of Now, Rana Dasgupta ed.),[http://www.silvanaeditoriale.it/catalogo/prodotto.asp?id=2390 Silvana Editoriale]. Silvanaeditoriale.it. Retrieved on 12 November 2011. "Mujib Coat" (Bidoun journal),[http://www.bidoun.org/magazine/14-objects/ Bidoun #14 ] and "Everybody wants to be Singapore" (Carlos Motta’s The Good Life).{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2008 |chapter=Hoggole Singapore Hoibar Chai |editor=Carlos Motta |title=The Good Life |publisher=Art in General |location= New York |isbn=978-1-934890-18-9}} He wrote the chapter on religious and ethnic minorities in the Ain o Salish Kendro Annual Report for Bangladesh.{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |chapter=Rights of Religious Minorities |editor=Sara Hossain |title=Human Rights in Bangladesh 2008 |url=http://www.askbd.org/hr_report2008/15_Religious.pdf |publisher=Ain o Salish Kendra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601233000/http://www.askbd.org/hr_report2008/15_Religious.pdf |archive-date=1 June 2010}}

Essays on diaspora include "Known unknowns of the class war" (Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop),[aaww.org/known-unknowns Asian American Writers Workshop]. Retrieved on 18 March 2015."The skin I'm in: Afro-Bengali solidarity and possible futures" (Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop),[http://aaww.org/the-skin-vivek-bald/ Margins/ Asian American Writers Workshop]. Retrieved on 6 March 2013. "Beirut, Silver Porsche Illusion" (Men of the Global South, Zed Books),{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2006 |chapter=The Migrant (2) |editor=Adam Jones |title=Men of the Global South: A Reader |publisher=Zed Books |isbn=978-1-84277-513-4}} "Why Mahmud Can’t Be a Pilot" (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the rules of Gender and Conformity, Seal Press),{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2010 |chapter=Why Mahmud Can’t Be a Pilot |editor=Matt Bernstein Sycamore |title=Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-7867-5057-3}} and "No Exit" (Asian Superhero Comics, New Press).{{cite book |author=Naeem Mohaiemen |year=2009 |chapter=No Exit |editor1=Jeff Yang |editor2=Jerry Ma |editor3=Keith Chow |editor4=Parry Shen |title=Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology |publisher=Perseus Distribution Services |isbn=978-1-59558-398-7}}

Essays on culture include "Islamic Roots of HipHop" (Sound Unbound, MIT Press; Runner Up for Villem Flusser Theory Award),[http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11401&mode=toc Sound Unbound – Table of Contents – The MIT Press] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805011730/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11401&mode=toc |date=5 August 2011 }}. Mitpress.mit.edu (31 May 2008). Retrieved on 12 November 2011. "Adman blues become artist liberation" (Indian Highway, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist)[http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/11/indian_highway_catalogue.html Indian Highway Catalogue SOLD OUT] Serpentine Gallery. Retrieved on 12 November 2011. and "At the coed dance " (Art Lies: Death of the Curator).[http://www.artlies.org/issue.php?issue=59&s=1&p=statement A Contemporary Art Quarterly]

• 2014: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation[http://www.gf.org/fellows/17635-naeem-mohaiemen 2014 Guggenheim Fellows- Creative Arts-Film-Video]
• 2018: Turner Prize nominee[https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2018/naeem-mohaiemen 2018 Turner Prize Nominees]{{cite news|first1=Adrian|last1=Searle|accessdate=2018-12-05|title=Turner prize 2018 review – no painting or sculpture, but the best lineup for years|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/sep/24/turner-prize-2018-review-tate-britain-naeem-mohaiemen-luke-willis-thompson-forensic-architecture-charlotte-prodger|newspaper=The Guardian|date=24 September 2018|issn=0261-3077}}
• Shortlisted for the 2009 Villem Flusser Award and the 2019 Herb Alpert Award.

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• {{Official website|www.shobak.org}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20171224032956/http://columbia.academia.edu/Mohaiemen Academia]
• [https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-299-naeem-mohaiemen Conversation about Naeem Mohaiemen's methodology and artistic practice, 2019]

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