Discipline: Visual Art – printmaking

Farah Mohammad

Discipline: Visual Art – printmaking
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Farah Mohammad is a printmaker, installation artist, and educator. Some of her most recent works have been sculptural woodcut prints, etchings, and monotypes of architectural structures that symbolize resilience. Her process of creating prints, where she breaks images down into shapes around which she builds the main subject, enables her to take an emotional inventory of their personal symbolism. Through her work she creates a visual reality for herself, where her past and present, her Pakistani and her American identities can all coexist.

Portrait by Argenis Apolinario

Studios

Putnam

Farah Mohammad worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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