Sameer Farooq

2024 Program & Exhibition Artist

Sameer Farooq (b. 1978; he/him) is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between photography, documentary film, sculpture, and anthropological methods, he investigates strategies of representation to expand the ways through which museums have looked at the past. He works to redress the role of exhibition and collection-based practices by building community-based models of knowledge production. Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2023), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2023), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2023), Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2022); Koffler Gallery, Toronto (2021); Lilley Museum, Reno (2019); Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); Institute of Islamic Culture, Paris (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, Canadian Art, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, Hyperallergic, and Artnet.

Exhibit #

Flatbread Library

The Flatbread Library is a long-term research project focused on the political and social significance of the tandoor, a large clay oven used in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa for over ten thousand years. The project originated from an artist’s visit to Pakistan with his father. Created in collaboration with the Agnes […]

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Program

Eating the Archive: flatbreads as embodied histories

Artist Sameer Farooq and food writer, researcher, and photographer Naomi Duguid invite you to participate in a collective conversation to share stories, food, and experiences at the site of Sameer’s artwork for TBA 2024, Flatbread Library. Participants will be able to listen and share stories grounded in the history, resiliency and transgressive nature of flatbreads […]

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