Born in 1991, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Lives and works in Atlanta, GA.
EDUCATION
2015
B.F.A., Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Color Test, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
Song Ideas, CANADA, New York, NY
We Don't Even Know What Song We're Gonna Sing Today, MARCH, New York, NY
2023
Favorite Song, Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA
You Really Gotta See It Live, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
We Recordin’ Tonight, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Day, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2022
Singing in the Response, Tops, Memphis, TN
Stretch My Hands, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA
Sky, You, Water, Ground, 12.26, Dallas, TX
2021
New Songs, 106 Green, New York, NY
2020
I Can’t Wait to See You, Resort, Baltimore, MD
If You Don’t Mind the Mud, Westobou, Augusta, GA
2019
Fruit of the Spirit, MINT, Atlanta, GA
2018
Banana Republic, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
What a Kallaloo, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
A Place For Modernism, Pilar Corrias, London, United Kingdom
Light Work, ADAMA, Atlanta, GA
2024
…an Atlanta Biennial…, Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Mind the Gap: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Georgia Museum, Athens, GA
The Twilight Zone, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
I want to Believe, Martha’s, Austin, TX
The Sea Swept the Sandcastles Away (To Wake Up In Atlanta), MARCH, NY
2023
The Big Picture, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drunk vs Stoned 3, The Ranch, Montauk, NY
Quantum States, Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York, NY
Invisible Architecture, Ralph Arnold Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022
Like A Child, NADA Curated, online exhibition
Oneness that is, Too, Temporary Exhibitions, Atlanta, GA
Surplus in Pantomime, Alabama Contemporary, Mobile, AL
El Fua, Eso Tilin Projects, Atlanta, GA
Salon RBG, Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany
Featured artist, online, Platform by David Zwirner
2021
Holy Night, Westin Downtown, public work, Atlanta, GA
Thick Like a Dumpling, Housing, New York, NY
2021 Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2020
Clerestory, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA
2019
Tropical Depression, The Mast, Atlanta, GA
Influence, with Amanda Gray Platner, MINT, Atlanta, GA
This Thing of Ours, Hi-Lo Press, Atlanta, GA
COLLECTIONS
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2025
Nellie Mae Rowe Award
2023
MacDowell Fellowship
2022
Edge Award, Forward Arts Foundation
2021
Hopper Prize
2020
Featured Artist, Westobou Festival
2019
Hambidge Center for the Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2018
MINT Leap Year Residency, Atlanta, GA
2017
SCAD Alumni Atelier, Savannah, GA
SELECTED TALKS
2022
What’s Next?, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2021
Suzanne Jackson in conversation with Hasani Sahlehe, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
Junior Independent Painting Course, MICA, Baltimore, MD
2019
Art Now Art Talk, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Edward Waisnis, “Hasani Sahlehe, “Song Ideas” Whitehot Magazine, November 6
Johanna Fateman, “Politics and Candy: Our Critic’s Guide to the Fall Art Openings”, Cultured, September 18
Emily Sandstrom, “Painter Hasani Sahlehe Tells Us How Alice Coltrane Inspired His Show at CANADA”, Interview Magazine, September 5
“Architecture and Song”, The Georgia Review, March 25
Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in January”, The New York Times, January 4
2023
Jacob Kelley, “Hasani Sahlehe at the Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta", Burnaway, December 6
Kelly Beall, “F5: Hasani Sahlehe Tackles Life’s Experiences With Paint,” Design Milk, January 13
2022
Maria Owen, “Hasani Sahlehe: Singing in the Response at Tops Gallery,” Burnaway, November 16
2021
“Hopper Prize Interview,” The Hopper Prize Journal (blog), November 15
Victoria Sauer, “Interview with Hasani Sahlehe,” Mineral House Media, November 12
2020
Artmaze Magazine, Issue 20, November 14, 2020, p. 66-68
Teri Henderson: “Lyrics and Remnants of Color: Hasani Sahlehe’s Show at Resort,” BMore Art, December 26
Ade Omotosho, “Diaphanous, Airy, and Evanescent: Hasani Sahlehe in Augusta,” Burnaway, September 17
Emerald Aiguelles, “Artist Feature,” aint—bad, August 26
Emily Testa, “A Universal Language,” Savannah Magazine, July 4
Michael Rooks, “Noteworthy Artist,” New American Paintings, South 142, March 21
“Artist Spotlight,” Art Papers, February 4