Farah Al Qasimi
Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) works with photography, video, music and performance. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai; CCS Bard Galleries at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York; The Third Line, Dubai; The List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. She has participated in residencies at the Delfina Foundation, London; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and is a recipient of the Art Basel Miami Legacy Purchase Program Prize, the New York NADA Artadia Prize; an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship; and the 2020 Capricious Photo Award. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; the Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam. Al Qasimi received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from the Yale School of Art. Her first monograph, Hello Future, published by Capricious in 2021, was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Book of the Year Award.
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From the Archives
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2022 / core / exhibition
Group Exhibition
Exploring the role of belief under the conditions of our age -
2023 / core / outdoor
Farah Al Qasimi
Night SwimmingWorking between the United Arab Emirates and New York, Lebanese-American artist Farah Al Qasimi finds her vibrant, collage-like compositions in the international cityscapes around her, or creates them in-studio. Presented along the subway platform at Davisville Station, the images in Night Swimming show fragments of shop displays, luxury interiors, and street life, weaving together the complexities of cultural identity, gender roles, and consumer culture.