Nationality Bangladeshi Known for Contemporary Art | Name Firoz Mahmud Role Artist | |
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Born September 5, 1974 (age 49) ( 1974-09-05 ) Khulna, Bangladesh Education University of Dhaka
Tama Art University
Tokyo University of the Arts
Rijksakademie Movement NinKi: Urgency of Proximate Drawing, Layapa Stencil Painting | ||
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Firoz Mahmud is a Bangladeshi artist. He works on installation, painting, drawing, photograph and other media of art. He has created several large scale installation art projects on particular concepts and thematic idea on his own country. His artworks were predominantly been green color with somewhat brown to re-imagine Bangladesh's primary color or color of his land and soil which describe his native culture and history.
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- Early life and career
- Artworks
- Painting Stencil painting Mixed Media
- Photography
- Solo exhibition
- Group exhibition
- Media
- Gallery representation
- References
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Early life and career
He received a fellowship from Asian Cultural Council. as an Asian Cultural Council guarantees and attended in a residency program at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York in 2011.
Artworks
Mahmud makes large scale installation projects. He exhibited Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006 in Nigata Japan (2.1) where he exhibited numerous wooden airplane in the city of Tokamachi. Mahmud is one of the finalist artists at The Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2007 in Hong Kong. He was invited to exhibit at the 9th Sharjah Art Biennial in 2009 where he exhibited large sculptural installation, 'Halcyon Tarp' with Royal Bengal Tigers. In 2010 he created 26 feet long fighter aircraft sculptural installation 'Sucker'wfp21' to exhibit 1st Aichi Art Triennial at Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2010. Mahmud was invited to an exhibition 'Step Across This Line'- Contemporary art from Bangladesh, India & Pakistan in Asia House London co-organized by Grosvenor Gallery and curated by Deeksha Nath.
Painting: Stencil painting & Mixed Media
Mahmud creates oil painting with the technique of stencil rendering thick layers of oil colors. He divides his time also on mixed media on homemade paper works.
He has painting series which he calls 'Layapa Stencil Painting' are based on history and myth of Bengal, political history and political wars in Bengal region and relations of West and East Bengal (now Bangladesh). He exhibited his stencil painting in his solo exhibition 'Lamentation in Two Lies' at the Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo in 2011. He exhibited solo exhibition 'NinKi: Legacies, Run over the Yamuna’ simultaneously with Nandan Ghiya at Exhibit 320 in New Delhi in 2015.
Photography
Mahmud works on arranged and conceptual photography. Since 2009, he has been working on a photography series called Soaked Dream which engage families with children and eye-glass sculptures. [1](23)]. He created numerous photograph series on dream of families in several cities. Among the series, he exhibited in 'The Missing One' project curated by Nada Raza at Dhaka Art Summit in 2016 and later the exhibition went to the Office of Contemporary Art [OCA] in Oslo Norway. In 2017, the Soaked Dream photograph series was exhibited at Against Competition/Towards Mutual Aid in New York by ABC No RIO at Flux Factory.
Solo exhibition
Among Mahmud`S solo exhibitions include Asbestos Art Space and city billboards, Bandung, Indonesia ,
Group exhibition
Biennial, Triennial exhibitions include the 2013 Setouchi Triennale art festival, Aichi Triennial (10),
Sharjah Biennale, UAE (09), Cairo Biennale (08), Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (06 & 09/DAP), Asian Biennale Bangladesh (08, 02, 00).
Media
In 2013, Asia Society in Honk Kong invited him in a symposium 'Continuous Horizons: Contemporary Art for Asia, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Programs’ Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Mahmud was featured on Japan Times and DNP magazine written by Lucy Birmingham. He exhibited his solo exhibition "Loss of the Toss is Blessing of Their Disguise," on NinKi:Urgency of Proximate Drawing at Dhaka Art Center in 2013. The Daily Star featured on his ongoing (primarily anonymous) NinKi: Urgency of Proximate Drawing photograph when he had a solo exhibition at Dhaka Art Center.
Gallery representation
He is represented by Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo and Singapore and Exhibit 320 in New Delhi. He started to exhibit with Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo since 2008. His first exhibition was with Tomoko Kashiki and Manami Koike with the title-`When you switch off your mobile, painting starts to talk eloquently’ in Tokyo which was Curated by Ozawa Tsuyoshi andTsuruta Yoriko. In 2015, Mahmud started his tie as represented artist with New Delhi-based gallery Exhibit 320. In May 2015 he had a solo show 'NinKi; legacies run over the Yamuna' simultaneously with Indian artist Nandan Ghiya with the title 'Images Attacked'. Mahmud exhibited his iconic drawing photography project and other mixed media of works.[2]