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. 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 carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany, “The Invisible Structure of the Universe: Part II”
2023 Webber, 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
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 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
2023 Artist Talk, Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA
2023 Artist Talk, School of Art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Artist Talk, Photography at UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL