Aydin Hamami (American, b. 1988) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. A first-generation Turkish-American raised on the East Coast of the US, Hamami's multicultural upbringing has come to be instrumental in his studio practice, with issues of heritage and identity merging with themes of memory, loss, and alienation. After relocating to LA in 2022, his work has shifted away from abstract painting into a murkier, less defined space of creating objects which reference painting and sculpture without firmly existing within the context of either. The resulting works become objects of meditation rather than representation, meant to interact with the viewer in the form of a silent, contemplative exchange.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2024:
Shadow Matter (solo show), Matter Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 28 - May 26
2023:
Of The Muck (group show), La BEAST, Los Angeles, CA, March 25 – April 29
2022:
skinny arms, tall flower pop-up show, Chungking Studio, Los Angeles, CA, September 23- 25
Labyrinth (group show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March 16- April 9
River Children (solo show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 16- March 12
Weird Science (group show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 16- March 12
Distruption (group show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, January 19- February 12
2021:
Small Works (group show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 15- January 8 2022
Artopia Juried Exhibit (online), San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center, Encino, CA, August 1-31
Left Coast Annual Juried Exhibition (group show), Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, April 9- May 16
2020:
Artists Vision (group show), Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, California, February 6- 29
2019:
mountainpunk/Dreamscape (solo show), Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, July 1- 31
Working Titles (group show), Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, May 2- 31
Art at The Center, 2019 National Juried Art Show (group show), Tomahawk Ridge Community Center, Overland Park, Kansas, April 5- May 31
Abstracts Matter (group show), 311 Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 28- March 23
LA Open 2019 (group show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, California, December 18, 2018- January 18
2018:
LA Open 2019 (group show), TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, California, December 18- January 18, 2019
2017:
An Evening of Art and Design with Saatchi Art (group show), Manhattan View at MiMA, New York, NY, March 1
2016:
People’s Choice Salon Show (group show), Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, November 11,
Aydin Hamami, New Works (solo show), Osuna Art, Kensington, Maryland, May 15 - June 30
Selected Works (Subhuman Funk) (solo show), Lovecraft Gallery, New York, New York, April 27
2015:
love-cheek, Azteca (MFA Thesis Exhibition, solo show), The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 30 - May 22
2014:
Midpoint (group show), Stamp Gallery, Adele H. Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2012:
I Danced for You (group show), Hanson Stern Gallery, New York, New York, October 1 - October 31
Converge (group show), Herman Maril Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Aydin Hamami, ongoing throughout 2012, Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
2011:
Under Construction (group show), Fox 3 Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2010:
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition (solo show), April 2010, East Hall Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York