Abdulhamid Kircher (b. 1996) is an artist from Queens, New York. He was born in Berlin to German and Turkish parents, and immigrated with his mother to the United States at the age of eight. His work is a living archive of place and people, as it is also a dedication to the language of photography, the mechanics and aesthetic possibilities of the form. Through his devotion to classical forms of image making and the radical experimentation required for each of his subjects, his process bridges the idea between document and narrative. He received his BA in Culture and Media from The New School in 2018 and his MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego in 2022. His debut monograph, Rotting from Within, published by Loose Joints, was released in 2024 on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. Abdul currently lives and works between Berlin and Los Angeles.

Email: ak@abdulkircher.com
Instagram: @kircherabdul


EDUCATION
2022    MFA, Visual Arts, University of California San Diego
2018    BA, Culture and Media, The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024    carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany, “Rotting from Within”

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024    Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France, “Loose Joints 2014-2024” curated by Nicolas Poillot 
2024    carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany, “The Invisible Structure of the Universe: Part II”
2023    Webber 939, Los Angeles, CA, “Staring Into The Sun” curated by Chantal Webber and Yudo Kurita
2022    Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, “Coming of Age” organized by Louis Vuitton
2019    Little Big Man Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Espace Louis Vuitton, Beijing, China; Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, Italy; MoMA PS1, New York; Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, Germany; Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan; Espace Louis Vuitton, Seoul, South Korea, “Coming of Age” curated by Virgil Abloh

SELECTED MONOGRAPHS
2024    “Rotting from Within” published by Loose Joints

SELECTED PORTFOLIOS, INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
2024    Aperture Magazine, “The PhotoBook Review - Rotting from Within” Issue 257, Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI, pp. 139-140
2024    Dazed MENA, “Abdulhamid Kircher’s Rotting from Within Asks Us To Keep Our Eyes Attuned to Beauty” Online
2024    Light Work, “Abdul Kircher” Text by Perwana Nazif, Contact Sheet 226: Light Work Annual 2024, pp. 5-12
2024    Cultured Magazine, “Young Photographers 2024” Fall 2024, The New Provocateurs, p. 129
2024    Der Tagesspiegel, “Mein fremder Vater - Großartige Fotografie von Abdulhamid Kircher” Kunst & Markt, August 17 2024, p. 27
2024    A Small Voice - Conversations with Photographers, “Abdul Kircher” Episode 237, Podcast
2024    The Guardian, “Stopping the rot: facing up to generational trauma – in pictures” Online
2024    Monopol Magazin, “Abdulhamid Kirchers Familienbilder in Berlin - Die Möglichkeit einer Versöhnung” Online
2024    The New York Times, Arts & Leisure: Focusing, July 14 2024, p. 2
2024    Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Intellect, July 13/14 2024, pp. 10-11
2024    DoBeDo, “Abdulhamid Kircher Interview” Online
2024    The Observer, The big picture, June 30 2024, pp. 2-3
2024    AnOther Magazine, “One Photographer’s Deeply Personal Examination of His Father Wound” Online
2024    GQ Middle East, “Rotting from Within: Abdulhamid Kircher’s Search for Identity through Photos” Online
2024    Juxtapoz Magazine, “A Family Portrait” Issue 230, Summer 2024, pp. 142-147
2023     MATTE Magazine, “All The Things We Do In Absence” Issue 62, Exciting Photography Now!, pp. 200-229
2023    True Photo Journal, “It didn’t always rain, there were sunny days too” Issue 8, pp. 6-33
2020    Aperture Magazine, “The Purest Thing” Issue 239, Ballads, pp. 118-125

SELECTED AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024    Innovate Grant
2024    Paris Photo-Aperture First PhotoBook Award (shortlist)
2024    The Hopper Prize
2023    un/fund
2023    Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2022    Charcoal Publishing Prize
2022    Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago Snider Prize
2022    Aperture Portfolio Prize (finalist)
2021    Drawing A Blank Artist Grant

SELECTED PUBLIC TALKS
2024    Marc Feustel and Abdulhamid Kircher, “The Artist Talks by The Eyes” Artist Talk, Paris Photo, Paris, France
2024    Lewis Chaplin and Abdulhamid Kircher, “New Photobook Releases: Rotting from Within” Artist Talk, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2024    Sofie Krogh Christensen and Abdulhamid Kircher, Artist Talk, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL



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