Born 1991 in Abu Dhabi
Lives and works in New York, USA and Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Farah Al Qasimi (*1991 in Abu Dhabi) works primarily with photography, performance and video, Farah Al Qasimi integrates her practice as a social critique. She examines postcolonial structures of power and gender and explores the unspoken social norms and values ingrained in places or objects. Her images, subjects to her cross-cultural life, transcend past and present as well as geographic references. Qasimi places themes such as identity, feminism, consumerism and economic growth in the foreground and navigates the connections between colonial history, contemporary identity and consumer culture.
Farah Al Qasimi studied at Yale University, where she earned her BA in Art as well as an MFA at the Yale School of Art. She was nominated and received multiple awards, such as the UAE Presidential College Scholarship in 2008 and the Creative and Performing Arts Award of Yale University in 2010. In 2018 she was the recipient of the NADA Artadia Award, New York, and in 2021, she was awarded the Golden Lion for Wetland at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Recent exhibitions include Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility, Guggenheim, New York (2023), Kinship, SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA (2023), New Visions Triennal, Henie Onstad Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway (2023), Gwangju Biennale, Soft and Weak Like Water, Gwangju, South Korea (2023), Wetland, Venice Architecture Biennale (UAE Pavilion) (2021), Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada (2019) and many others. She has participated in residencies at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas (2024), Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2017), School of Visual Arts, New York (2014) and others.
