Bio
b. 1961, Larache, Morocco; lives and works between London, England and Marrakesh, Morocco
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
My Rockstars, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
VOGUE, The Arab Issue, Fotografiska, New York, NY
2020
Hassan Hajjaj: The Path, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Hassan Hajjaj: A Taste of Things to Come, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea
VOGUE, The Arab Issue, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Carte Blanche à Hassan Hajjaj, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Hassan Hajjaj: From the Streets of Marrakech to the Heart of Abu Dhabi, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hassan Hajjaj: The Path, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2017
My Maroc Stars, L’Atelier 21, Casablanca, Morocco
Noss Noss, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
La Salle de Gym des Femmes Arabes, Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
La Caravane, Somerset House, London, UK
2016
My Rock Stars Vol.1, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Colors of Gnaoua, Borj Bab Marrakech, Essaouira, Morocco
La Salle de Gym des Femmes Arabes, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Karima: A Day in the Life of a Henna Girl, British Museum, London, UK
Stylin’, Colette Art Gallery, Paris, France
2015
My Rock Stars Vol. 1, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Karima: A Day in the Life of a Henna Girl, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Art Basel’s Film sector, Basel, Switzerland; A Shaded View On Fashion Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2014
Kesh Angels, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY
My Rock Stars: Volume 2, Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
My Rock Stars: Experimental, Volume 1, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
My Rock Stars: Volume 1, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Vogue: The Arab Issue, Aria Art Gallery, Florence, Italy
2012
My Rockstars: Volume 1, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Mi Casa es tu Casa, Marrakech Biennale 4, Marrakech, Morocco
2011
Marque Deposée, Matisse Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Mi Casa es tu Casa, Matisse Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
2010
Kesh Angels, Rose Issa Projects, London, UK
My Beautiful Rubbish, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2009
1430 in Casa, Matisse Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
Dakka Marrakesh, 8th Bamako Encounters African Photography Biennial, Bamako, Mali
‘Le Salon’, The Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, UK
2008
Dakka Marrakesh, Rose Issa Projects at Leighton House Museum, London, UK
Noss Noss: Photographic Works and Other Moroccan Stories, The Third Line, Doha, Qatar
2007
Noss Noss: Photographic Works and Other Moroccan Stories, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Five Artists, Five Mediums, Five Days, curated by Paul Laster, Intersect Aspen Online Exhibition
CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Between the Sun and Moon, Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan
2019
African Spirits, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Get Up, Stand Up: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, UK
The Space of the Image – MAXXI Collection 2018-2019, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Styles of Resistance: From the Corner to the Catwalk, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Contemporary Muslim Fashions, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
African Metropolis: An Imaginary City, Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy
Talisman in the Age of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Hyper Real, The Arts Club, London, UK
Al Musiqa, Philarmonie de Paris, Paris, France
Un Oeil Ouvert Sur Le Monde Arabe, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21c Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Mi Casa Su Casa, curated by HASSAN HAJJAJ, Comptoir des Mines, Marrakech, Morocco
2017
The Royal Academy of Arts - Summer Exhibition, London, UK
Treasures of Islam in Africa: From Timbuktu to Zanzibar, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Africa Pop Studio, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Afriques Capitales, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
Afriques Capitales, as part of 100% Afriques, La Villette, Paris, France
African-Print Fashion Now!, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Made you Look: Dandyism and Black Masculinity, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK
Fashion Cities Africa, Brighton Museum, Brighton, UK
Making & Unmaking, Camden Art Centre, London, UK
Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East – part 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany & Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Reality of My Surroundings, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
ZieZo Marokko, Tropenmuseum Junior, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Arts & Food, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
A Curious Blindness, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
View from Inside: Contemporary Arab Photography, Video and Mixed Media Art, Abu Dhabi Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2014
The Future of Fashion is Now, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Addis Fotofest, Photography Biennale, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Staging Reality, Lagos Photo Fest, Lagos, Nigeria
Special Flag, L’Atelier 21, Casablanca, Morocco
True to Life? - New Photography from the Middle East, Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, UK
Fluid Form II, NEMO Blue Square and Busan Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
10 photographes contemporains marocains, Fondation Mohammed VI de Promotion des oeuvres Sociales de l’Education, Rabat, Morocco
Sociales de l’Education, Rabat, Morocco
Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Beyond the Cloth: The Kafiye Project, WhiteBox Projects, New York, NY
Au Bazar du Genre, MUCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée) Marseille, France
Chaos into Clarity: Re-Possessing a Funktioning Utopia, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
10 photographes contemporains marocains, MMPVA (Marrakech Museum for Photography and Visual Arts), Marrakech, Morocco
2012
Light from the Middle East, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Re-Orientations II, Rose Issa Projects, London, UK
ComeTogether, Edge of Arabia, London, UK
Aurs Al Arab, OltreDimore Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Between Walls, Matisse Gallery, Rabat, Morocco
Aurs Al Arab, OltreDimore Gallery, Florence, Italy
2011
How I Learned to Stop Fearing and Love Exotic Art, JAMM Art, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Photoquai, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
Africa: See You, See Me, Museu Da Cidade, Lisboa, Portugal & Fondazione Studio Maragoni, Firenze, Italy
Play Ground, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
‘Le Salon’ for the Jameel Prize, La Villa des Arts, Casablanca, Morocco
2010
Le Salon’ for the Jameel Prize [traveling exhibition], Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation, Sharjah, UAE; National Museum, Beiteddine Palace, Beiteddine, Lebanon; National Museum, Damascus, Syria; National Museum, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
ARABICITY, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2009
‘Le Salon’ for the Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Icons Reloaded, Elysee Arts Gallery, Liege, Belgium
Re-Orientations, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Reuse 2.0, El boutique at Lothan Exhibition Space, Kuwait City, Kuwait
Mediterraneo: A Sea that Unites, Italian Institute, London, UK
2007
Social System, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance, UK
2005
Contemporary African Visual Arts, Painting & Furniture, British Museum, London, UK
Fashion in Motion: Africa, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2004
Black British Style, clothing from 1950s till now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Selected Distinction, Prizes and Awards
2016
Officer of the Wissam Al Moukafaa Al Wataniya Order
2014
Certificate of Recognition for ‘My Rock Stars: Experimental Vol. 1’ from the City of Los Angeles
Pulse Art Fair Prize (Winner)
2011
Sovereign African Art Prize (Winner)
2009
Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum (Shortlisted)
Selected Collections
Barjeel Collection, Sharjah, UAE
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Farjam Collection, Dubai, UAE
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, Tunisia
Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden, Marrakech, Morocco
Museum of Arts of the XXI Century, Museum, Rome, Italy
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Wedge Collection, Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, Canada
Bibliography
2021
"Cardi B. and Other ‘Rockstars,’ Through the Eyes of the Moroccan Artist Hassan Hajjaj.” The New Yorker [Photo Booth]. 8 May 2021
Toum-Benchekroun, Dina. “Morocco’s Hassan Hajjaj Makes Mark on Post-Pandemic Art Scene.” Morocco World News 1 May 2021
“La pandémie n’a pas affecté la créativité du photographe marocain Hassan Hajjaj.” Yabiladi 1 May 2021
Maghribi, Layla. “British-Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj has kept busy in the pandemic with a new exhibition, film and tea brand.” The National 1 May, 2021.
Sayej, Nadja. “Hassan Hajjaj Looks Back on the Illustrious Career That Led to ‘Vogue: The Arab Issue.’” InsideHook 16 April 2021.
Rosen, Sara. “Hassan Hajjaj’s Colorful Cabinet of Rock Stars and Fashionistas.” Blind 12 April 2021
Knoblauch, Loring. “Hassan Hajjaj, My Rockstars @Yossi Milo.” Collector Daily 6 April 2021
Eshun, Ekow. “Meet the motley crew of rock stars representing Hassan Hajjaj’s London calling.” Sleek 19 February 2021
2020
Highet, Juliet. “Hassan Hajjaj's Hot Remix.” AramcoWorld April 2020
Ayad, Myrna. “Hassan Hajjaj Welcomes the World into His Playful Pop Kingdom Created in Morocco.” Vogue Arabia 30 March 2020
Jansen, Charlotte. “Inside Hassan Hajjaj’s Riad in the Heart of Marrakech.” Elephant 13 March 2020
Akel, Joseph. “African Spirits.” Artforum July 2019
2019
Golden, Lisa. “Hassan Hajjaj photo retrospective rocks Paris.” The Daily Star Lebanon 14 November 2019
Toodehfallah, Anahita. “The Prismatic, Kitsch, and Glam World of Hassan Hajjaj.” Hyperallergic 25 October 2019
Mitter, Siddhartha. “Hassan Hajjaj Turns Moroccan Clichés Into London Cool.” The New York Times 9 October 2019
Sansom, Anna. “Maison Marocaine: Hassan Hajjaj’s first solo retrospective.” British Journal of Photography 7 October 2019
“Morocco a-go-go: the eye-popping visions of Hassan Hajjaj – in pictures.” The Guardian 25 September 2019
Fouchet, Jeanne. “Hassan Hajjaj, le pop art de Marrakech à la Maison européenne de la photographie.” Connaissance des Arts 12 September 2019
Bindé, Joséphine. “Le Maroc pop d’Hassan Hajjaj.” BeauxArts 11 September 2019
Akel, Joseph. “African Spirits.” Artforum July 2019
Weber, Jasmine. “The Tantalizing Photographic Figure at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair.” Hyperallergic 3 May 2019
McLaughlin, Aimée. “New Hassan Hajjaj exhibition is a colourful clash of cultures.” Creative Review 3 April 2019
“Hassan Hajjaj.” We the Outliers 24 January 2019
2018
Guillot, Claire. "The European House of Photography Aims Young and Far." Le Monde 11 October 2018
Stone, Bryony. “‘The work is for the people’: Hassan Hajjaj's journey from Marrakech to Madonna.” It’s Nice That 8 October 2018
Proctor, Rebecca Anne. “African Metropolis Presents the Complex Metropolis Structure Through an Urban Lens.” Harper's Bazaar Arabia 23 September 2018
Berning Sawa, Dale. “Hassan Hajjaj’s best photograph: Kesh Angels, girl biker gang of Morocco.” The Guardian 23 May 2018
2017
Hammoudi, Jazia. “Meet Hassan Hajjaj, the ‘Warhol of Marrakech’ Who Shot Hip-Hop Star Cardi B. for New York Mag.” Artnet News 24 November, 2017
Macdonald, Fleur. “Hassan Hajjaj Make Marrakesh Go Pop.” The Economist 25 October 2017
Hirschfeld, Javier. "Hassan Hajjaj’s Vibrant Photographs are a Riot of Colour." BBC Culture 18 October 2017
Mostert, Caroline. "London Sets the Stage for Contemporary African Art." Sotheby’s 5 October 2017
MacDonald, Fleur. "Hassan Hajjaj Makes Marrakesh go Pop." 1843 Magazine October 2017
Kane, Ashleigh. "Meet Hassan Hajjaj, the ‘Andy Warhol of Marrakech.’" Dazed 30 January 2017
2016
Smets, Jenny. "Black dandies: met elegantie vooroordelen te lijf." Vrij Nederland 15 December 2016
Moroz, Sarah. "The Photographer Remixing Louis Vuitton With Traditional African Garb." i-D 14 July 2016
2015
Cotter, Holland. “Review: ‘A Curious Blindness’ at Wallach Art Gallery.” The New York Times 7 May 2015
2014
Rao, Mallika. "These Portraits of Moroccan Hipsters Are More Nuanced Than They Look." The Huffington Post Arts & Culture 12 September 2014
Fite, Jenna. "My Rock Stars Experimental: Hassan Hajjaj Creates a Global Stage." National Geographic 2 September 2014
Smith, Roberta. "Hassan Hajjaj: ‘Kesh Angels.’" The New York Times 27 February 2014
“Kesh Angels, les motardes voilées de Hassan Hajjaj.” Les Inrockuptibles February 2014
Scarborough, James. “Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars: Volume 2, Gusford Gallery, Los Angeles.” Huffington Post 10 January 2014
2013
Hajjaj, Hassan. Photography, Fashion, Film, Design Rose Issa Projects and Taymour Grahne Gallery, London, 2013 [book]
2012
“Hassan Hajjaj, photographe designer.” RTBF.be 2 October 2012
2008
Hajjaj, Hassan. Dakka Marrakesh