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Born in 1951 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, lived there until his death in 2016.
A pioneer of conceptual art and experimental practice in the Middle East, Hassan Sharif explored form, time, social action and mathematical systems throughout his career.
His work is marked by the use of common materials in accumulative installations as well as complex social and philosophical reflection. Rejecting calligraphic abstraction, the dominant regional art discourse in the 1970s, Sharif pursued a contemporary art vocabulary that drew upon the non-elitism and intermedia of the art collective Fluxus and the systemic processes of making found in British Constructionism.
Solo exhibitions of his work include Hassan Sharif; Experiments & Objects 1979—2011, Qasr Al Hosn, Abu Dhabi (2011) and Hassan Sharif, Sharjah Art Museum (2007).
His work has also been shown in the group exhibitions The Creative Act: Performance - Process - Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017); But We Cannot See The