Aki Hassan
Aki Hassan
Aki Hassan sees their practice as a tool to locate strengths, resistance, precarity and imbalances within relational exchanges. Through material explorations and process-driven methodologies, they create work that examines ideas around care and asymmetrical forms of dependencies.
Rooted in collaborative inquiry and community-building, Aki’s practice extends beyond the studio into organising spaces that foreground collective knowledge, mutual support, and slower modes of active engagement.
Their work is informed by lived realities, ongoing dialogues and collaborations within queer and trans* communities, and a commitment to challenging extractive systems of labour, authorship, and visibility.
They live and work in Glasgow and Singapore.
Aki Hassan is a visual artist and organiser who primarily works with expanded sculpture, drawing and self- publishing. Recent residencies include Per°Form CoThink Lab Fellow at T:>Works (2023-24), Cutes / ظِراف with Samandal and Nino Bulling as part of Documenta 15 (2022) and SAM Art Residencies at Singapore Art Museum (2021/22). Recent exhibitions include Entangled Attachments (Yeo Workshop, 2023), RSA New Contemporaries 2022 (Royal Scottish Academy, 2022), innate (Yeo Workshop, 2021), An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season (National Gallery Singapore, 2020), Pig Rock Bothy Residency & Exhibition (Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, 2019) and Show Me The Difference (Studio for an Art Lover, Glasgow 2019).