AIDA ŠEHOVIĆ Born in Banja Luka, . Lives and works in New York City.

EDUCATION 2010 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY 2002 BA, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

COMMUNITY BASED PROJECTS 2019 Što Te Nema - Venice, Campo San Giacomo di Rialto, Venice, Italy (forthcoming) 2018 Što Te Nema - Zurich, Helvetiaplatz, Zurich, 2017 Što Te Nema - Chicago, Daley Plaza, Chicago, IL 2016 Što Te Nema - Boston, Copley Square, Boston, MA 2015 Što Te Nema - Geneva, Place de Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland 2014 Što Te Nema - Toronto, Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada 2013 Što Te Nema - New York, Washington Square Park, New York, NY 2012 Što Te Nema - Istanbul, Taksim Square, Istanbul, 2011 Što Te Nema - Burlington, Church Street, Burlington, VT 2010 Što Te Nema - Stockholm, Normalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden 2009 Što Te Nema - The Hague, Het Plein, Den Haag, The 2008 Što Te Nema - Tuzla, Trg žrtava genocida, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2007 Što Te Nema - The UN Headquarters, United Nations 2006 Što Te Nema - Sarajevo, Baščaršija, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Artivism: The Atrocity Prevention Pavillion, Palazzo Dandolo Paolucci, Venice, Italy 2018 A Void, 601 Artspace, New York, NY Proof of Existence, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 2016 Polymorphous, The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Unfinished Conversations, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA 2014 Oblique Strategies, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY 2013 Queens International 13, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY EAF13: Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY 40th Anniversary Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY I’m Open to the Idea, The Nightclub, Miami, FL 2012 Size, Scale, Repetition, General Practice, Miami, FL !1 GROUP EXHIBITIONS (CONTINUED) 2012 Testing, Heliopolis, Brooklyn, NY Soul Seekers: Interpreting the Icon, Trinity Museum, New York, NY 2011 The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, Flux Factory, New York, NY 2010 I Carry You in My Heart, Hunter Times Square Gallery, New York, NY

SCREENINGS 2018 WARM Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Proof of Existence, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 15th annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival, New York, NY

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES 2019 Arts Center Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist (Interdisciplinary Work), NYFA 2017 Fellowship for Utopian Practice, Culture Push 2015 Process Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2014 Artist in Residence, Grand Central Art Center 2013 Emerging Artist Fellowship and Residency, Socrates Sculpture Park 2009 Graf Travel Grant, Hunter College 2007 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship 2006 Artist in Residence, Santa Fe Art Institute ArtsLink Award, CEC ArtsLink 2005 Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center Artist Development Grant

ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES, PANELS 2018 “A Void” panel discussion, 601 Artspace, New York, NY “ŠTO TE NEMA? – Ein nomadisches Monument,” Jenseits im Viadukt, Zurich, Switzerland Visiting Artist, The New School, New York, NY “Art for Justice: Creating Alternative Spaces Through Što Te Nema Public Monument,” KUMA International School, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina “Što Te Nema: Creating Alternative Spaces through Nomadic Monuments,” University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA “Proof of Existence,” Artist Conversation, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

!2 ARTIST TALKS, LECTURES, PANELS (CONTINUED) 2017 Visiting Artist, The New School, New York, NY “Art for Justice: Remembering the Victims of the Srebrenica Genocide," Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 2017 “Cameraperson,” 14th annual Bosnian-Herzegovinian Film Festival, New York, NY “A Day of Readings on Peace: A Convening around Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Peace Table, Queens Museum, Queens, NY 2016 “Memorialization and the Role of Reparative Justice in the Balkans,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY “Što Te Nema: Reclaiming Collective Memory in the Public Sphere” (keynote), Bosnian and Herzegovinian Diasporic Conference, Toronto, Canada Visiting Artist, Pace University, New York, NY 2015 “To Remember and Reflect,” Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC 2015 “Recovery or Semblance of Recovery,” Staging Sex, Staging Self: A Performative Lecture Series, Skowhegan Project Space, New York, NY 2014 “Cups of memory: Remembering Srebrenica Genocide through Što Te Nema monument,” Visiting Artist, Connecticut College, New London, CT 2013 Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT “Curating Social Practices,” BroLab panel, Untitled Art, Miami, FL 2012 Visiting Artist, Hunter College, New York, NY Visiting Artist, Trinity College, Hartford, CT Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2018 Bury, Louis. “Vanished Art Recalled and Reinterpreted.” Hyperallergic (October 27, 2018) Hawkes, Martine Louise. Archiving Loss: Holding Places for Difficult Memories, New York: Routledge, 2018. Hiltmann, Aleksandra. “Zürich schaut auf 7500 Kaffeetassen.” Tages Anzeiger (July 11, 2018) Hošić, Irfan. “Kritične tačke banjalučke umjetničke scene.” Revizor (Godina 1 / Broj 3 / 2018) Klett, Maddie. “A Void.” The Brooklyn Rail (November 1, 2018) Sajous, Eleysha. “Conversations: Aida Šehović’s Nomadic Monument ŠTO TE NEMA.” NYFA Current (June 28, 2018) Sallustio, Céline. “7500 Kaffeetassen auf dem Helvetiaplatz in Zürich: Eine Performance mit traurigem Hintergrund.” Aargauer Zeitung (July 11, 2018) 2017 Foy, Nicole. “Aida Šehović.” 90 Days, 90 Voices, (July 27, 2016)

!3 BIBLIOGRAPHY (CONTINUED) 2017 Markovich, Annie. “ŠTO TE NEMA (Why Are You Not Here?) - July 11, 2017 - Daley Plaza.” New Art Examiner (Volume 32 No. 1 September/October 2017) Spaić, Igor. “Serving in Chicago for Srebrenica’s Missing.” Balkan Transitional Justice (July 12, 2017) Obrenović, Mladen. “Fildžani koji čekaju 8.372 srebreničke žrtve.” Aljazeera Balkans (July 9, 2017) 2016 Conley, Bridget. “On memory, coffee and an imperfect circle.” World Peace Foundation (July 27, 2016) Moawad, Sarah. “The Waiting Cups: Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide.” Muftah (July 22, 2016) Sacirbey, Ambassador Muhamed. “Coffee with the Souls of Srebrenica.” Huffington Post (July 19, 2016) Socrates Sculpture Park: Thirty Years. Long Island City: Socrates Sculpture Park, 2016. 2015 Barton, Dave. “Aida Sehovic Takes on the Massacres of Our Time.” OC Weekly (November 26, 2015) Barton, Dave. “The Year in Art.” OC Weekly (December 22, 2015) Boessenkool, Antonie. “He takes crime-scene photos as his job, then returns to the scenes to create art.” OC Register (November 23, 2015) Karabegović, Dženeta and Dr. Koinova, Maria. “Remembering Srebrenica in Different Contexts.” Politics Reconsidered (July 17, 2015) Waldie, D.J. “At the Scene of the Crimes: Photo Exhibit Meditates on the Tragedy of Place.” KCET (November 23, 2015) 2014 Douara, Deena. “Toronto Bosnians to fill coffee cups to mark Srebrenica Genocide.” Globe and Mail (July 11, 2014) Karabegović, Dženeta. “Što Te Nema? - Transnational Cultural Production in the Diaspora in Response to the Srebrenica Genocide.” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Vol. 20, # 4, 2014) 2013 Goyanes, Rob. “Just Because I’m Open to the Idea Looked Slapped-Together Doesn’t Mean It Wasn’t Cerebral.” Saltyeggs (January 22, 2013) Hošić, Irfan. Iz/Van Konteksta, Sarajevo: Connectum, 2013. Hallenbeck, Brent. “Bosnian artists turn conflict to creative expression.” Burlington Free Press (December 7, 2013) Queens International 2013, ex. catalogue. New York: Queens Museum Smailkadić, Azra. “Findzan kahve koji nema ko popiti,” Novo Vrijeme 4 4 (13 juli 2013) 2012 Hawkes, Martine. “Containing testimony: archiving loss after genocide.” Continuum (Volume 26, Issue 6, 2012) 2012 Hošić, Irfan. “Odlasci kao pravilo.” Dani (30 mart 2012)

!4 BIBLIOGRAPHY (CONTINUED) 2012 Khimji, Ali. “Where were you?” Emel (April 2012) Kiliç, Şükrü Oktay. “Kahveleri hazır ama onlar yok.” Radikal Hayat (July 12, 2012) Soul Seekers: Interpreting the Icon. New York: Trinity Museum 2011 Mindich, Talia. “Coffee and Remembrance.” Burlington Free Press (July, 8 2011) Pickard, Ken. “A Bosnian Who Calls Burlington Home Commemorates the Srebrenica Massacre.” Seven Days (July 4, 2011) Ryan, Matt. “Where are you?” Burlington Free Press (July 11, 2011) 2006 Hawkes, Martine. "Transmitting Genocide: Genocide and Art." M/C Journal (September 1, 2006)

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