Farah Mohammad is a printmaker, installation artist, and educator based in New York. 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 printmaking, Mohammad combines anthropological research with her fascination with urban architecture. She draws inspiration from images she captures of spaces undergoing change. Through her work she creates a visual reality for herself, where her past and present, her Pakistani and her American identities can all coexist.
While at MacDowell, Mohammad worked in the mediums of drawing, monotype printmaking, and installation to continue her exploration into the human experience of shame. Familial and political histories have an impact on the way we perceive our life experiences and participate in society. She studied selected literature by Salman Rushdie and Ismat Chughtai, to delve into what these post-colonial South Asian writers can teach us about grappling with shame. Through monotype printmaking she integrated ideas from the literature, and her own lived experience and photo archives. She will expand on this body of work in her upcoming residencies at the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA) and Yaddo in 2024.
Portrait by Argenis Apolinario
