Firoz Mahmud’s mixed media on paperworks, wood carvings and oil layapa Stencil paintings of the ‘Legacies Project’ narrate about the history and legacy of South Asia. He also transforms the painterly and linear based paperwork into wood which is carved manually depicting aspects of cultural heritage that may have gotten devalued or undermined through the mechanisms of colonialism that affected many nations till the 20th century.

In the series submitted, `Drawing Reverberation`[Aupniveshik/Porouponibeshik], he uses idioms such as old palaces, forts, spice trees or herbaceous plants, wild animals and colonial traders in these drawings and carvings, addressing the riches of his native land. Mahmud juxtaposes themes of socio-political culture, tradition, history, and myths that beg the question of how they exist today, and what forces have created new visual territories, impacting how these can be remembered as cultural histories and those of neighbors.

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Artist Profile

Hometown: Khulna

Based in: New York

Lives and works between New York and Dhaka.

Firoz Mahmud was a participant artist at Rijksakademie VB Kunsten, Amsterdam, and has a PhD from the Tokyo University of Arts, an MFA from Tama Art University and a BFA from Dhaka University. Mahmud’s artistic practice is realized through various mediums such as painting, installation and photography that engage with his cultural and political heritage.

Mahmud has exhibited at Office of Contemporary Art, Norway, MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts Rome, Asia House London, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, University Art Museum, Metropolitan Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo & Geidai PS1, Fuchu Art Museum, Mori Art Museum (CG) Tokyo; Metropolitan Mostings Hus Copenhagen, Sovereign Art Foundation HK, Ota Fine Arts, Exhibit320, Delhi, Dhaka Art Center, National Museum, Bengal Gallery Dhaka.

Mahmud’s work has been exhibited at the following biennales: Lahore Biennial, Bangkok Art Biennial, Dhaka Art Summit, Setouchi Triennale (BDP), Aichi Triennial, Sharjah Biennale, Cairo Biennale, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Asian Biennale.

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United States

Mixed Media

Figurative

Geometric

Minimalist

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