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Visiting Artist Lecture: Sameer Farooq
Jan 23, 2024 01:00 PM
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Registration Deadline: Jan 23, 2024 12:00 PM
Placemaking: Building Communities through Art
Artist Lecture with Sameer Farooq
Community is an important part of being an artist and conversely, artists build community, define place, and keep culture alive with their work. Thinking through the elements of placemaking-citizen well-being, reliable public transit, and the overall vitality of a community, 2023-2024 invites 9 artists to speak about the impact of community on their practice, the pivotal role placemaking serves in their works, and how artists actively build, maintain, and champion their communities.
**Registration closes at 12pm the day of - please arrive in person if you'd like to attend past the registration deadline.**
Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture, photography, documentary film, and anthropological methods, he expands the ways through which museums have written and narrated the past. Sameer Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2023), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (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); 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, Artnet, The Huffington Post, and C Magazine. He is an alumni of the prestigious Bemis Center Residency.