Farah Al Qasimi

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

Her work is in the collections of MoMA New York, Tate Modern, Guggenheim New York and Abu Dhabi, and she has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, Delfina Foundation in London, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. 

Selected solo exhibitions include; Abort, Retry, Fail, Art Exchange, University of Essex, UK (2024); Toy World, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2024); Abort, Retry, Fail, Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2023); The Swarm, Plug in Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada (2023); Poltergeist, C/O Berlin, Germany (2023);  Everywhere there is splendor, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA (2021); Imitation of Life, The Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France (2021); Lady Lady, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada (2021); Funhouse, Helena Anrather Gallery, NY, USA (2020); Back and Forth Disco, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA (2020); Open Arm Sea, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, USA (2020); Arrival, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2019); List Projects: Farah Al Qasimi, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA (2019); Artist's Rooms, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE (2019); More Good News, Helena Anrather, New York (2017).

Selected group exhibitions include; Hudood: Rethinking boundaries, Brunei Gallery SOAS, London, UK (2024); Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Guggenheim Museum, NY, USA (2023); Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (2023); Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1: An Exercise in Looking, The Third Line, Dubai, UAE (2022); A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (2021); Lahore Biennale, Lahore, Pakistan (2020); March Projects, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (2019); Age of You, MOCA Toronto, Canada (2019); Conversation 7 (with Marcela Pardo Ariza), San Francisco Arts Commission, SF, USA (2018); No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects, CCS Bard Galleries, New York, USA (2017).