AWARDS + HONORS
2024 SO Awards Nominee, DUPHO Dutch Photography Award 2024 Palm* Photo Prize - Ink New Talent Award 2024 ARTPILL 30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2023 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography shortlist
2022 BJP International Photography Award
2022 Rabo Photographic Portrait Prize (Dutch National Portrait Gallery) Shortlist 2022 PhotoVogue Fashion 100, the 100 Next Great Fashion Image makers
2022 Forbes 30 under 30 Arts & Culture Europe
2021 1854’s Fast Track Vol. 2 winner 2021 2021 Malala Fund x 1854 Against All Odds Shortlist
2021 Foam Talent
2020 Rabo Photographic Portrait Talent (Dutch National Portrait Gallery) Finalist
2020 Palm* Photo Prize Finalist 2020 GUP New Photo Talent + Finalist
2019 Vogue Italy A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes 2019 Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards + Juror’s Pick
2019 Unseen Amsterdam Outstanding Graduate of 2019
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Vincent op Vrijdag, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 2024 PROSPECTS (Mondriaan Fonds) at Art Rotterdam 2022 BJP International Photography Award show at TJ Boulting Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2022 PhotoVogue Fashion 100, the 100 Next Great Fashion Image makers, Base Milano (group)
2022 Unfair Amsterdam exhibition
2021 Foam Talent (group)
2020 Palm* Photo Prize Finalist exhibition, London, UK (group)
2020 GUP New Photo Talent exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands (group)
2019 Vogue Italy A Glitch in the System, deconstructing stereotypes, Base Milano exhibition (group)
2019 Unseen Amsterdam Outstanding Graduate of 2019 exhibition (group)
2018 Scope Art Fair Miami Beach, Young Thug As Paintings exhibition (solo)
GRANTS
2022 Mondriaan Fonds, Kunstenaar Start
PANELS + TALKS
2023 BJP’s IPA winner Hajar Benjida in conversation with Fiona Rogers ( British Journal of Photography x The V&A Parasol Foundation) 2019 Unseen Amsterdam presentation at Sir Albert Hotel Amsterdam
2019 DDK#43 at Pakhuis de Zwijger (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - with Stephan Vanfleteren, Melanie Bonajo and Hajar Benjida 2018 Scope Miami Beach From Mixtapes to Masterpieces: The Non-Traditional Gatekeeper
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2023 NTS RADIO x POLAROID PRESENT: KALEIDOSCOPE - HAJAR BENJIDA 2022 Voice x Photovogue NFT Residency 2022 DAZED, photo dump: 8 artists and writers open their phone camera rolls 2022 Guest-editor Der Greif issue 15 2020 Magnum Photos, Picter, Der Greif & Vogua Italia, Images of Solidarity and Community in Times of COVID-19 - , “When I becomes we, even illness becomes wellness“ 2019 i-D, Hajar Benjida's year in photos 2018 Hajar Benjida x Young Thug: Young Thug As Paintings at Scope Miami Beach
EDUCATION
2015 - 2019 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands: Bachelor of Design with honors, Graduated August 2019
SELECTED PRESS
CNN VICE NEWS ON HBO Financial Times Forbes i-D DAZED anOther W Magazine The FADER BOOOOOOOM It’s Nice That Pitchfork Office Magazine HIGHSNOBIETY MTV NEWS Planet WOO The Guardian