Farah Al Qasimi

Biography

Farah Al Qasimi makes photographs, films and music. Often working with large-scale vinyl imagery and a multiplicity of photographic prints and screens, Farah is interested in the internet and its hierarchies of information and emotion. Farah also loves the complexity of storytelling and value-building in children's cartoons, and many of her video works include primary narrators who are anthropomorphized. She has a highly collaborative practice and has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African Land Snails, exorcists, and most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator.

Notable Teaching Experience

Bard College, New York
Pratt Institute, New York
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Rhode Island

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Abort, Retry, Fail at The Delfina Foundation (London, 2023)
Poltergeist, C/O (Berlin, 2023)
List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, 2019)

Notable Group Exhibitions

Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Guggenheim Museum, (New York, 2024)
Yokohama Triennale curated by Raqs Media Collective (Japan, 2020).

Public Collections Include

Guggenheim (New York and Abu Dhabi)
Tate Modern (London)
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), among others.

Press

She has been featured in Artforum, Forbes Magazine, The New Yorker and Dazed, among others