Lawrence Abu Hamdan is an artist whose work takes the form of installations, video, performance, photography, writing, and lectures. Abu Hamdan holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has completed fellowships at the University of Chicago and the New School. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Sharjah Foundation; Secession, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Institute of Modern Art, Birsbane; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Portikus, Frankfurt, among others and he has received EMAF Award, the Edvard Munch Art Award, the Baloise Art Prize, the Abraaj Art Prize, and the 2022 Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media by the Philadelphia Museum of Art the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. In 2019 he was the co-winner of the Turner Prize.  His audio investigations and research have been used as evidence at the United Kingdom’s Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and as advocacy for organizations such as Amnesty International and Defence for Children International together with fellow researchers from Forensic Architecture.