Sameer Farooq: Sheridan Faculty of Animation, Art & Design Featured Series

Join Sheridan professor and program coordinator of The Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design, Gord Thompson, in discussion with Sameer Farooq.

Sameer Farooq is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between photography, documentary film, sculpture, andanthropological methods, he investigates strategies of representation to expand the ways through which museums have looked at the past through traditional forms of collection, interpretation and display.

He has received his BA from McGill University, a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Jaou Photography Biennale, Tunis (2024). Toronto Biennial of Art (2024), Le 19, crac, Montbéliard, France (2024), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023), Materia Abierta, Mexico City (2023), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2023), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2023), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2023), Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2022); Susan Hobbs, Toronto (2022); Koffler Gallery, Toronto (2021); Patel Brown, Toronto (2021); Lilley Museum, Reno (2019); Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); The British Library, London (2015); Maquis Projects, Izmir (2015); Artellewa, Cairo (2014); and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011).

Reviews dedicated to his work have been published by Art Forum, The Art Newspaper, La Presse, Canadian Art, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, Hyperallergic, Artnet, The Huffington Post, and C Magazine. He is an alumni of the Bemis Center Residency and has been longlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent art award.

Note: this event will be both in-person and online.

In-person: Sheridan College Trafalgar Campus Conference Centre

Online via Zoom

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